Lawsuit alleges N.J. State Police commended trooper in 'Death Race 2012,' then covered it

[jim49er]

Top brass at the State Police signed off on a memo commending a trooper for a job well-done in an unauthorized, high-speed escort of sports cars last year, and then tried to cover it up after the escort was exposed and the trooper was suspended, a new lawsuit alleges.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/01/lawsuit_alleges_nj_state_polic_1.html#incart_m-rpt-1

[VoluntaryAmerican]

"I am very concerned, in fact alarmed, with some of the stories which have come out this year regarding the conduct of some of the troopers," Jackson said. "It was my hope the culture had been changed. But all that’s gone on this year has raised serious concerns about it."

This year, The Star-Ledger investigated dozens of allegations against the State Police, examined more than 150 current and former lawsuits, conducted more than 350 interviews, filed 60 public records requests and worked with inside sources to obtain confidential information about the way the agency functions.


Though statistics show racial profiling has diminished, misconduct in myriad forms persists, the paper’s reporting found: troopers illegally escorted dozens of luxury sports cars at 100 mph along state highways to Atlantic City; they beat a disabled man following a traffic stop; they wrestled a man in diabetic shock to the ground, arrested him and denied him the juice he requested to raise his blood sugar; they stole gas from state pumps, got in fights and drunkenly crashed their patrol cars.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/12/nj_state_police_still_plagued.html

[AGRP]

Officer safety.