{"id":489328,"date":"2026-01-03T11:34:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489328\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:34:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:34:35","slug":"jersey-city-public-safety-director-shea-resigns-ahead-of-solomon-being-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489328\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey City Public Safety Director Shea resigns ahead of Solomon being sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jersey City Public Safety Director James Shea, one of the first appointees of Mayor Steven Fulop\u2019s administration, <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>By John Heinis\/Hudson County View<\/p>\n

\u201cThis letter is to confirm that I will be resigning from my position as Public Safety Director \u2026 Thank you for the opportunity to serve in your administration,\u201d Shea wrote in a letter to Fulop on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n

He added that his resignation will be effective on January 14th at midnight, Fulop\u2019s last day in office before Solomon, a two-term Ward E councilman, succeeds him.<\/p>\n

Shea is the second Jersey City municipal director to announce they will be leaving before Solomon takes the reigns, following Department of Infrastructure Director Barkha Patel, who announced she would also be leaving as of January 14th, as only HCV reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fulop became mayor on July 1st, 2013 and Shea, a former NYPD deputy chief, was appointed the city\u2019s first public safety director less than three weeks later.<\/p>\n

\u201cJim Shea restructured the police department, hired and promoted more officers than any chief before him, led Jersey City through a mass shooting, and helped deliver the lowest homicide numbers in our city\u2019s history. He ignored politics, focused on results, and made Jersey City safer,\u201d the outgoing mayor emphasized.<\/p>\n

Solomon declined to comment, but he, along with all the other major mayoral candidates, said they would not keep Shea<\/a> on board if elected, opting to one again have the police and fire departments operate separately from one another.<\/p>\n

The mayor-elect\u2019s public safety plan<\/a> includes hiring 100 new officers, bringing back a traffic enforcement unit, eliminating mandatory fixed posts and urging the state legislature to authorize a civil complaint review board (CCRB) with subpoena power \u2013 among other things.<\/p>\n

Back in March, the Jersey City Council approved a vote of no confidence for Shea by a tally of 6-1(2), with Councilwoman-at-Large Amy DeGise voting no, while then-Ward B Councilwoman Mira Prinz-Arey and Ward D Councilman Yousef Saleh abstained.<\/p>\n

The action was largely symbolic, given that Shea did not face any formal sanctions as result of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey City Public Safety Director James Shea, one of the first appointees of Mayor Steven Fulop\u2019s administration, By…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":489329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,220747,172023,220748,220749,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,145234,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-489328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-james-shea","10":"tag-james-solomon","11":"tag-jersey-city-council","12":"tag-jersey-city-department-of-public-safety","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-steven-fulop","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115830958655658642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}