I am thinking the solution to preventing the mass crowds from gathering and now committing crimes on the boardwalk where it became necessary to declare a state of emergency, prohibit the boardwalk from remaining open after dark on holiday weekends. What you see is happening in other seashore towns and is very likely to happen again. Wildwood shut the motorcycle rally down and that ended the perceived threat based on observation only, here we have unlawful actions being committed-time to shut it down!