Organizers say it was scarily successful, with over 3,000 trick-or-treaters. Watch video
TRENTON -- Munching on caramel apples while moving to the beats of a disc jockey, over 3,000 people walked through the Trenton police's second annual Trunk or Treat Thursday night.
Organizers say it was scarily successful.
The lines were long and at times stretched a block around police headquarters on North Clinton Avenue, but parents say it was worth the wait.
"It's safe, and that's what I like," said Valerie Kashanui. She usually takes her three children Lyla, 5, Jade, 3 and 1-year-old Johnny to Lawrence for trick-or-treating.
This year, they will get two days of candy, and Kashanui was appreciative that Trenton police organized an event for Trenton children. "I like that they are giving back to the community," she said.
Trenton Detective Alexis Durlacher, the organizer, and who dressed as a World War II ballplayer from the movie "A League of their Own," spent most of the night running boxes of candy to the vehicles ringing the police parking lot.
Last year's event drew about 1,000 people. This year, police estimated 3,000 attended.
"Next year, I'm hoping for 5,000," she said Friday.
Durlacher said it was a great collaboration between the Trenton public safety community and city organizations.
Trenton Detective Ed Cunningham and his wife Lisa brought their food truck Crespella's and doled out free banana crepes and caramel apples. Officer John McGinley and his family organized a zombie trailer.
The DJ was Trenton's patrol captain, Anthony Pasqua, and several top commanders roamed the event dressed as monsters and cartoon characters.
Rounding out the end of the trunk-or-treat line was a city fire engine and a Trenton EMS ambulance that kids could take a look it as they collected candy.
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