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Feb. 8, 2019 – The 40-year-old Newark woman, however, still had not made the call by 9 a.m. She had a better option: Damaris Febus, a Newark detective in plainclothes, was about to help her. They were in front of the dollar store and steps away from a large truck in which Febus works with other plainclothes officers to connect addicts like Velazquez to treatment and social services. It’s called Hope One Newark. The name is written on the truck in purple letters next to a purple ribbon, the color signifying recovery. There’s no police logo, only words that say “care” and “stigma free.” The people don’t even know the officers are cops, and Febus wants it that way when the truck camps out once a week in Newark neighborhoods. On Monday, it was at Broadway near Crane Street…
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