ACLU petitions for oversight of Newark police

9 September 2010, 4:02 pm

The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday that the police department of New Jersey's largest city has so many serious problems — rampant misconduct, lax internal oversight and too many cases of officers using excessive force during arrests — that the federal government needs to intervene.... Read More »

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