Officials at odds over gang presence in Elizabeth

Every single municipality in New Jersey filled out the State Police gang survey last year except one: Elizabeth. The absence of one of the state’s most violent cities from the resulting report, released last month, is strange on its own. But it only scratches the surface of a bizarre dispute between a bulldog mayor who has said the city doesn’t have a gang problem, and Union County’s top law enforcement official, who claims countless documents prove that it does.