State Trooper To Take Control Of N.J. In Coup

When we last left the New Jersey state troopers, they were planning to launch a ticket blitz against the public for being mean to them for not killing Jon Corzine.

The troopers’ ticket blanketing apparently isn’t going through since messageboard chatter was reported by The Jersey Guys, some (probably annoying) radio DJs. But State police union leader David Jones wouldn’t have any of that, and last week responded by publicly releasing radio host Craig Carton’s address and license plate number. He says the information came from a reliable source. Well, obviously.

Jones says he was only trying to show one of the “Jersey Guys” lives in Pennsylvania — Oh no! I expect complete integrity from my drive-time radio hosts! — but he was a little more forceful at the original press conference.

“I’m going to release the names and addresses of these people and then their sponsors, and all of the car dealerships and everybody else that sponsors that show is going to have to deal with the reality that they’re putting public servants and the public in general in harm’s way, and I’m going to make sure that everybody knows, until they get their act together, who these people are, where they live, what they do and how it is that they’re misleading the public and creating this furor,” Jones said.

Later, he added this quote of the year:

“If guys, be they troopers or not troopers, choose to vent on a blog board, that’s their right, and that’s a board that’s supposed to be shared,” Jones said. “A couple of cowards obviously compromised it, and when I find out who those Girl Scouts are I’m going to crush ‘em like bugs.”

Jones said he’d stop his campaign when some people told him he could probably get fired for it, but that he still felt he had done his job: “I don’t have the luxury of saying “I’ll just let a couple of guys get run over.’” Oh, and now it’s hard for troopers to do their jobs because people are contesting every ticket. Well, obviously.

Trooper’s outburst gets state scrutiny [Camden Courier-Post]
Trooper launches salvo over ticket-blitz report [Camden Courier-Post]