On Dec. 10, 2019, two shooters killed Jersey City Police Detective Joseph Seals and then drove to Martin Luther King Drive and killed three people inside a deli.

After days of heated discussion among residents, the Jersey City City Council authorized at its Wednesday meeting the purchase of the “Rook,” an armored vehicle for the police department for ...

In the 2023 city council meeting, police officials said the department asked the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office for assistance with its own Rook 13 times in the previous four years.