As of 2013, there was a reported 192,971 crimes in the U.S. state of New Jersey, including 401 murders.
This is an overall decrease in total crimes reported, but an increase in murders.
[1] The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a field office in New Jersey, located in Newark.
[4] New Jersey was the first state to repeal the use of the death penalty after the Supreme Court restored the use of capital punishment in the Gregg v. Georgia case.
[5] Akbar Pray, Newark resident, was sentenced to life in prison in 1990 for leading a drugs gang that had dominated the city's drug trade since the early 1970s.