In an office in a sleepy town in southern New Jersey, Harry Glemser’s phone rang. With no buxom secretary to take a message, he answered it himself.
It was a dame, looking to hire a private eye.
So begins Times writer Alana Semuels’ look into New Jersey, where cutbacks in police and law enforcement officials have forced towns to turn to private eyes, not the boys in blue, to solve crimes.
And it’s not just limited to cash-strapped New Jersey cities. Californians too have been impacted, with Oakland residents, for example, going as far as to turn to social networks to help solve crimes.
Read more about the growth of the private security industry, and the implications for towns increasingly lacking in police.
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