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Newark
COMINGS AND GOINGS
police
IN NEW STADIUM
data not
reported
State is missing
1 in 10 complaints
filed against officers
By Chris Megerian
StateHOUSe BUreaU
The outcome of one of every
10 internal affairs complaints
filed against Newark police of-
ficers from 2000 to 2008 was
not reported to the Attorney
General’s Office as required by
state guidelines, an analysis by
The Star-Ledger shows.
The omissions number 1,315
out of 12,905 complaints, ac-
cording to a review of annual
internal affairs reports that
every police department in the
state is required to file each
year. The problem occurs when
internal affairs complaints re-
corded as unresolved at the end
of each year are not added into
the next year’s report, mak-
ing it impossible to determine
their results from mandatory
public records.
The missing statistics are
among the issues the American
Civil Liberties Union raised
John Munson/The sTar-Ledger
last week when it petitioned
Chuck Nadd, a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, cheers yesterday after Giants quarterback Eli Manning gave him his hat
the federal government to in-
following the 31-18 victory over the Carolina Panthers in the first regular-season game at the New Meadowlands Stadium.
vestigate the Newark police,
alleging a years-long pattern
of abuse against citizens. Most
More
recently, 186 complaints filed
inSide
One Giants fan’s dream seat is another’s sad farewell
against cops in 2008 were not
& online
carried over to the 2009 report,
By Peggy McGlone and Seth Augenstein
Stadium, sitting six rows from the Giants’
as rose’s game-day traditions were be-
• Giants’
thus disappearing from public
Star-ledger Staff
bench, on the 35-yard line.
ginning, Ken Huff’s were ending. Yester-
victory helps
view, the ACLU said.
Michael Rose put his name on the wait-
The wait, not to mention the cost of the day’s season-opening 31-18 victory over the
avenge sea-
Newark police have shown
ing list for Giants season tickets 31 years tickets and the personal seat license re- Carolina Panthers marked the 336th con-
son-ending
“their complete inability to
ago. When he called the team five years quired to buy them, was worth it, he said.
secutive home game Huff has attended, a
loss in the
generate meaningful statistical
old stadium.
ago to ask about his chances, his question
“Since I was 17 I was on that list,” said streak that dates back 45 years, to when
data on case dispositions,” the
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prompted laughter.
Rose, 48. “Now my buddies are with me the giants played at Yankee Stadium.
organization’s petition said.
But yesterday, Rose’s dream of having on opening day. What could be better than
“The streak ends today,” said Huff of New
• See video
The Star-Ledger’s analysis
his own place in the stands finally became this? The seats are incredible. You can yell Milford, who gave up his seats because of
about fans
shows reporting errors are not
a reality as the Oakland resident found at the players and they’ll be able to hear. the cost. “It’s sad. Oh yeah, sad.”
at nj.com/
confined to the state’s largest
himself inside the New Meadowlands We’re going to get our money’s worth.”
SEE Stadium, PAGE 6
videos.
city. Statewide records from
2000 to 2008 show 90,423
SEE newark, PAGE 6
New Jersey Symphony
Apartment building fire
strikes a community chord
displaces 100 in Orange
Orchestra to debut
era for the orchestra, one that
finds the orchestra trying to
No major injuries
More at nj.coM
innovative leader
reinforce its roots in the com-
in five-alarm blaze
and new attitude
munity and make the case that
•View a slide show and
it is a central part of the state’s
at 96-unit complex
video from the scene of the
By Peggy McGlone
cultural life.
apartment complex fire
Star-ledger Staff
“It’s a pivot point for the sym-
By Ben Horowitz
Star-ledger Staff
The start of a music direc- phony,” said Lawrence P. Gold-
leaving roughly 100 people
tor’s tenure with an orchestra man, president and CEO of the
Carol Herman was attend- homeless, Orange Mayor El-
is always eagerly anticipated, New Jersey Performing Arts
ing an early-morning church dridge Hawkins Jr. said.
but Jacques Lacombe’s debut Center, which hosts the or-
service yesterday when she
The fire began in the south-
with the New Jersey Sympho- chestra’s season-opening con-
learned her apartment build- west corner of the top floor
ny tomorrow night promises cert in Newark. “I think they
ing in Orange was on fire.
of one of the buildings, then
more drama than usual.
have been extremely thought-
The pastor broke the news quickly spread to the three ad-
First, there’s the stark con- ful … about how to reposition
to the congregation about the joining five-story structures,
trast between Lacombe, the themselves. They’ve taken a
five-alarm blaze that was rip- he said.
47-year-old French Canadian lesson from Gustavo Dudamel
ping through the four-build-
By the end of the day, the
up-and-comer, and his prede- and the Los Angeles Sympho-
ing, 96-unit complex at 399 building’s fifth floor had col-
cessor, European superstar ny and they have gotten them-
Lincoln Ave., forcing scores of lapsed and part of the fourth
Neeme Järvi. More important- selves an exciting, inventive,
residents into the street.
floor also had fallen through,
ly, there’s the sense that La- good-looking young conductor.
Though she lost her home Hawkins said.
combe’s arrival signals a new
SEE Symphony, PAGE 6
and her belongings, Herman
There were no major inju-
saw a silver lining.
ries reported and the cause of
“It’s only material things, the fire is still under investiga-
in OThER nEWS
praise the Lord,” she said yes- tion, he said. It is not yet known
Linden boy struck, killed
Embattled lawmakers
terday afternoon as the fire if any residents will be allowed
by SUV outside his home
return to Washington
continued to burn.
to return to the building.
Police said the driver was the
Congress has four weeks to try
MaTT rainey/The sTar-Ledger
The five-alarm blaze, report-
In the morning, thick plumes
mother of one of the victim’s
to pass several economic bills
A firefighter races up a ladder yesterday to battle a five-
ed shortly before 8 a.m., heav- of smoke billowing from the
football teammates. Page 3
before leaving again. Page 11
alarm fire at an apartment complex in Orange.
ily damaged all four buildings,
SEE Fire, PAGE 3
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