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Police chief reports sharp drop in juvenile incidents, credits enforcement and cancelled teen night
Summary
Beach Haven's police chief reported substantial year-over-year decreases in juvenile-related incidents for summer 2025 — including a drop in curbside warnings (24,000 to 14,000), curfew warnings (20,000 to 9,000), vandalism incidents attributed to juveniles (26 to 9), and juvenile arrests (31 to 22) — and recommended maintaining current enforcement and program changes into next summer.
At the Nov. 25 Beach Haven Borough Council meeting the police chief (unnamed in the public transcript) presented a data summary showing marked reductions in several categories of juvenile-related calls and incidents between the 2024 and 2025 seasons and urged the council to maintain current enforcement and programming approaches.
"In 2024 we had 24,000 curbside warnings. Uh, this year 2025 we had…
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