Why New Jersey wants to block civilian oversight of Newark’s troubled police force 👇
But just one month earlier, right before the nation began another painful reckoning with police brutality and systemic racism, his administration sought to block a civilian oversight board for the long-troubled police department in Newark, New Jersey’s largest city, from attaining the power to investigate officers accused of misconduct.
But for the last two years, Grewal’s office supported legal efforts by the Newark Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 12 to block a 2016 local ordinance that empowers the city’s Civilian Complaint Review Board to subpoena records and investigate individual officers.
That ruling was appealed to the state Supreme Court and, in April, a deputy attorney general argued that giving a civilian board investigative power would violate state laws designed to prevent “meddling and undue interference of the police force by civilian authorities.” That’s the purview of the department’s internal affairs unit and the city’s public safety director, the state’s argument went.
“A civilian review board may only investigate the general operations of the police force,” Bornstein told the court.Unlike other state attorneys general, Grewal has unique authority to issue binding guidance to local law enforcement agencies. In the wake of Floyd’s death, he announced new use-of-force guidelines would be forthcoming and recently
In addition, review board members and staff who had been convicted of crimes or offenses — even minor drug possession charges — would be barred from handling internal affairs documents without the approval of the county prosecutor and relevant police executive.
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