In 1997, then-Gov. Christie Whitman signed a law that allowed retired police officers to carry concealed weapons.
The intent was to enhance public safety in an increasingly dangerous world. The catalyst was the 1995 murder of John Deventer, a retired Hanover Township police chief, who was shot in Newark's Fairmount cemetery when he interceded in the carjacking of an elderly couple.
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