dogtown commons

Since I’ve compared the murder rates of Oakland and Newark recently, I thought I would pass on the sad news that Newark’s long stretch of time without a homicide has ended:

A 43-day stretch without a homicide in Newark — the city’s longest such period in decades — came to an end Tuesday night in front of a bodega in the violence-prone South Ward, where the police said a young man was fatally shot in the head.

This was the longest period of time without a homicide in Newark since 1961, there was a 57-day stretch without any murders.