[Coleus]

Just a little background info. With his two charges of income tax evasion and striking a corrections officer he would not have passed the background check to become a trooper. He is the first Superintendent in history not to come from the State Police Ranks. The trooper's union was against his nomination. When he first started his new job he commissioned a trooper academy for one student himself, this way he would pass himself and can state he was a trooper. The attorney general nixed that idea so he still CAN NOT wear the uniform.

Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf's father was the first NJ State Police Superintendent

http://www.fieldtrip.com/nj/98822000.htm http://www.state.nj.us/lps/njsp/about/20s.html http://www.crimelibrary.com/lindbergh/lindcrime.htm http://www.njsp.org/about/badge.html http://www.charleslindbergh.com/kidnap/ns.asp http://www.capitalcentury.com/1928.html

[Coleus]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/643810/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/765504/posts

[bankwalker]

More ooze from the garbage state.

[tracer]

Tradition!! Tradition!!

[lelio]

So what if McGreevy appoints someone that isn't even a state trooper and has mob ties to head the state police. That didn't stop him from nominating an America hating 'poet' to the state's poet laurate position. In fact it is good for McGreevy as he can again say "I would like to fire him but the laws say I can't" and get even more political capital from his mistakes.

[Salman]

As if the gummint in Newark ever wasn't mobbed up? Not in my lifetime.

Back in the '60s it was said that MAFIA was short for Mayor Addonizio's Friends In Action.