Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey and the seat of  Essex County. ... Newark is divided into five political wards (the East, West, South , North and .... in recent years with elevated rates of crime, particularly violent  crime. ..... After the election of Cory Booker, millions of dollars of public-private ...
In the entire public school system in Camden last year, only three students  graduated college ready. — PolitiFact New ... Says under Mayor Cory Booker,  Newark has seen "violent crime up five years in a row, murder up five years in a  row.".
May 19, 2014 ... Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark's  schools. ... His parents had risen into management at I.B.M., and he grew up in  the ... In a third of the district's seventy-five schools, fewer than thirty per cent of ...  Booker is the first Newark mayor in fifty years not to be indicted.
Violent crime is up since the last year of Sharpe James' administration. This year  it's higher. ... Says under Mayor Cory Booker, Newark has seen violent crime up  five years in a row, murder up five years in a row." — PolitiFact New Jersey on ...
Crime in Chicago has fallen too, but its murder rate has remained stubbornly ....  Papachristos found that people who had been arrested within the previous five  years were 50 ... In 2006, Newark Mayor Cory Booker lured McCarthy across the  Hudson ... “That was driving up the violence,” says Deputy Chief Robert Tracy, “[ the ...
Says under Mayor Cory Booker, Newark has seen "violent crime up five years in a row, murder up five years in a row."