Dougard has a Norman Rockwell print of a police officer talking to a runaway boy hanging opposite his desk.īrick Town is an oasis of sorts in a state struggling against a tide of gang violence.
They answer an average of 212 calls a day. The Police Department has 128 officers, or 1.5 per 1,000 residents, fewer than the national average for cities of 2.3, according to the Department of Justice. “The police got here before we did,” said Charlene Wuesthoff, a clerk at the store, who said it was her first brush with crime since moving here in 1975. There was, however, a break-in at the Bait ’n’ Tackle Shop, which sells fishing gear and seashells. There were six robberies and 48 aggravated assaults, down from 88 the year before. There were no murders or rapes reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation last year in this Ocean County township, a mix of familiar strip malls, sandy woods, diminutive homes bordering lagoons and multimillion-dollar beachfront mansions. And last week, a publishing company in Lawrence, Kan., called Brick Township the safest place in the country. A couple of New York City transplants call it head-thunkingly dull. Real estate people call it nice, residents call it friendly, and the schools chief calls his students unusually civic-minded. Signs at the public beach warn visitors against profanity or intoxicating liquors. Greatest hits of the police blotter include a missing mudflap from a pickup truck and the pilfering of a purse containing a season pass to Great Adventure. 2 - From its three exits on the Garden State Parkway to its three miles of oceanfront property, this town of 78,000 seems to have all its edges tucked in.
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