Jersey City Police Department
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The chief of the Jersey City Police Department blamed state transportation officials on Friday for the deaths of two officers,  Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen, who drove off an open vertical lift bridge, saying that the bridge was in chronic disrepair and that the operators compounded the danger by failing to tell the officers exactly when the deck was going to be raised. Chief Robert A. Troy believes the blame lies with the Department of Transportation with other factors like communication lapses within the Police Department that kept the two officers from knowing the bridge was up. The chief of the Jersey City Police Department blamed state transportation officials for the deaths of two officers, saying that the bridge was in chronic disrepair and that the operators compounded the danger by failing to tell the officers exactly when the deck was going to be raised. In a conference, Chief Troy said that he believe that the blame lies with the Department of Transportation, and further said that it happened with other factors involved. Those factors were communication lapses within the Police Department that kept the two officers from knowing the bridge was up.