It’s simply cause effect higher escalation of force (crime) higher the response of enforcement.

No state is paying these people over time or paying for extra “enforcement” if there wasn’t a tangible “need”

NJ is a Democratic stronghold with a governor that will eventually become a presidential candidate, I doubt he wants pictures like this circulating but equally he doesn’t want his state to fall to complete trash like New York or California.

NYC and Cali have the highest concentration of rich people (roughly 160 billionaires live in CA and 125 or so live in NYC) these are the two highest depots of billionaires globally, NJ doesn’t rank that high- but the power in NJ is substantial.

FBI/CIA run operations regularly. All up and down the GSP, their are more known terrorists in NJ than any other state, (Monmouth county being a stronghold)

Regardless of all this NJ remains a fairly safe state. We pay for it tho a lot. But seeing armed “law enforcement” or the future “corporate soldier’s (paid security by large corporations that can afford armed guards)”

We hope in any case of an “active shooter” we hope that we have the appropriate response to protect anyone that could be in danger.

And lastly maybe there’s something going on that none of us have any remote idea about yet we snap a photo like this and people speculate.

So speculate knowing only so much that we will Probably never really “know”