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Root
07-23-2014, 08:31 AM
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2014/07/justice_department_calls_for_federal_monitor_of_ne wark_police_department.html#incart_m-rpt-1


NEWARK — The U.S. Justice Department announced today it had reached an agreement with the city of Newark to allow a federal monitor to watch over a municipal police force that it found had repeatedly violated the rights of its citizens, especially blacks, in the state’s largest city.New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced the results of a three-year review of the Newark Police Department at a news conference, saying, "the people of Newark deserve to be safe, and so do the thousands who come here."
"They also need to know the police protecting them are doing that important — and often dangerous — work while respecting their constitutional rights," Fishman said.
Newark will become the first municipal police agency in state history to operate under a federal watchdog — and the 13th in the nation — in just the latest development in a decades-long pattern of oversight.
The state has controlled the school district since 1995, and New Jersey officials have warned that if the city council passes its recently introduced 2014 budget, state supervision will be required.
The review, led by the Justice Department’s civil rights division, found that police failed to provide sufficient constitutional reason for about 75 percent of pedestrian stops; blacks make up nearly 54 percent of the city’s population but account for 85 percent of pedestrian stops and nearly 80 percent of arrests; more than 20 percent of officers’ reported use of force was unreasonable and violated the constitution; and officers assigned to narcotics and gang units and prisoner-processing stole from those they arrested.

More at link.

What a joke. The DOJ is completely inept and has no regard for the constitution.

specsaregood
07-23-2014, 08:37 AM
Doesn't look like ex-Mayor turned Senator Booker did much of a bang up job.