West New York police cars and town hall, Aug. 16, 2021. (Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal)Reena Rose Sibayan | The Jersey Journal
Crime doesn’t pay in West New York, but being a police officer sure does.
The working-class north Hudson town of roughly 52,000 spends nearly 20% of his annual budget, or $19.6 million, on its police department, and it doesn’t even have a police chief, according to the latest payroll records.
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