Star Ledger: How many shootings has Newark had this year? Depends on who you ask

NEWARK – Last week, Mayor Ras Baraka and city police officials took aim at a Wall Street Journal article documenting a sharp rise in shootings this year, calling it an incomplete picture of the city’s struggles with violence.

The nature of the dispute, however, was not whether shootings had gone up. Rather, much of the criticism was focused on the paper’s use of state police intelligence data, instead of internal statistics compiled by city police — highlighting a curious discrepancy in how law enforcement agencies account for shootings and other crimes…