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<\/a>By John Heinis\/Hudson County View<\/p>\nSolomon today said findings of an internal audit of Jersey City Police Department crime data reporting\u00a0 that found at least 3,251 criminal cases between 2021 to 2024\u00a0 were not properly entered into the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).<\/p>\n
The audit attributed the gaps to fragmented workflows, inconsistent tracking, inaccurate initial incident coding, and failures to update offense classifications when supplemental reports changed the facts of a case.<\/p>\n
\u201cTransparency is only meaningful if the data behind it is trustworthy. And a new era of public safety transparency can only happen if we are honest and accurate about past statistics. Jersey City residents deserve accurate information, and we\u2019re committed to fixing and building systems that deliver it,\u201d Solomon said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The 2025 data is up-to-date, and the administration will use 2025 data only as a baseline moving forward, Solomon\u2019s office added.<\/p>\n
Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose, who oversaw the audit, invited the New Jersey State Police (NJSP) to conduct an on-site review of JCPD\u2019s reporting workflows and processes.<\/p>\n
As a result, Jersey City police are now implementing refresher training on incident scoring, coding, and reporting; evaluating upgrades to its CAD\/RMS (computer-aided dispatch and records management) systems to improve routing accuracy and supplemental report capture; and strengthening supervisory review, among other things.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese findings reflect issues that built up over years. What matters now is that we\u2019ve identified the problems, we\u2019ve brought in experts to help us fix them, and we\u2019re putting the right systems and staffing in place to get this right going forward,\u201d noted Ambrose.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe people deserve transparent, accurate information about the safety of their city and we are going to provide that to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The audit is part of the Solomon administration\u2019s broader JC IMPACT initiative, which aims to bring data-driven accountability to public safety operations.<\/p>\n
A public dashboard displaying up-to-date crime and safety metrics is expected to launch in the coming weeks, built on the improved reporting infrastructure now being put in place.<\/p>\n
Fulop, now the president and CEO of Partnership for New York City who has largely not publicly responded to Solomon\u2019s criticisms of his administration, didn\u2019t hold back this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen over the last six months is what happens when a mayor has no agenda of his own. Mayor Solomon has a strange obsession with my tenure, one he was completely silent about despite sitting on the City Council for eight years while all of this allegedly occurred,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat silence leaves only two explanations: either he was asleep on the job as a councilman, or this didn\u2019t happen the way he\u2019s now claiming. Six months in, his administration\u2019s greatest hits are rebranding my accomplishments, issuing press releases about paperwork, and lobbying to change the rules so his out-of-town director team won\u2019t be held accountable on a budget or on crime statistics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fulop added that violent crime was reported accurately throughout his 12-year tenure, claiming that Solomon simply found \u201centry gaps in a federal system\u201d which is \u201ca manufactured problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back in December 2024, Fulop and then-Public Safety Director James Shea held a press conference touting declining homicides and shootings, also acknowledging that thefts and assaults were up, as HCV first reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n At the time, Shea explained why the city was switching to NIBRS reporting, which Fulop noted was rapidly replacing CompStat and uniform crime reporting (UCR).<\/p>\n \u201cThe NIBRS system is much more granular, much more involved, captures a lot more detail about the crimes that are occurring and is now the required throughout the country,\u201d Shea said back then.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, with a lot of work, we had to increase our unit that does our CrimeStat reporting from two to seven, and we had to put a lot of overtime into it, but with a lot of work, in January of this year we were able to switch to the NIBRS system.\u201d<\/p>\n Solomon has been bringing the fight to Fulop within about three weeks of being sworn in this year, beginning with an explosive press conference<\/a> where he attributed an over quarter billion budget deficit to financial mismanagement by the prior administration.<\/p>\n