Supported the high-ranking officials, Mayor, City Administrator and Council Members in supervising department operations while efficiently allocating and managing $55.5 million dollar budget.
Chief Executive of New Jersey’s largest accredited police department with 425 Sworn and 125 Civilian employees, 3rd largest City in New Jersey, 2nd most densely populated city outside of New York City with 200,000
residents representing (58) different ethnic, religious and socio-economic groups.
As the police director, Jerry coordinated and collaborated with National Network of Safe Cities establishing
and coordinating a Group Violence Intervention Program that has reduced violent crime, Homicides by 65% and Shootings by 28%, systematically a decline in crime for (5) years consistently.
Oversaw various department services and activities such as criminal investigation, public safety, crime prevention, group violence intervention, law enforcement diversity and de-escalation training, community engagement and crime trend analysis.