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Ticket and arrest quotas were already barred in New Jersey, though such data could still be used as part of a performance evaluation – but not anymore.

Ticket and arrest quotas were already barred in New Jersey, though such data could still be used as part of a performance evaluation – but not anymore.

Armando Fontoura – 20,879 votes (77.6%) Barry Jackson – 1,186 votes (4.41%) REPUBLICAN (vote for one) Nicholas Pansini – 5,014 votes (81.01%) Incumbent Armando Fontoura, the longest-serving sheriff in county history, faced a challenge for the Democratic Party nod from John Arnold Jr., a former deputy director with the Newark Police Department, and a third candidate, Barry Jackson. The Republican candidates for sheriff in the 2021 primary election were Nicholas Pansini and Maureen Edelson....

"Chokeholds are torturous and deadly and have no place in a just and humane society," a criminal justice reform expert testified.

Why it’s time to end qualified immunity | Editorial Today 8:15 AM A man carries a Black Lives Matter flag before a march to protest a police shooting. (Stuart Villanueva | The Galveston County Daily News via AP, File)AP Facebook Share A controversial legal theory that’s shut down lawsuits against cops for abusive behavior, all across America, is now under fire in New Jersey. The principle is called “qualified immunity,” and it’s not a law – just a doctrine adopted over time by the ...

HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP (Mercer) — A township police officer was fired and another demoted over a Facebook comment in 2020 calling Black Lives Matter supporters “terrorists," according to their lawyer. Officer Sara Erwin wrote the post in June 2020 and was fired on Friday night by the Township Committee while Sgt. Mandy Gray, who commented on the post, was suspended, attorney Frank Crivelli told New Jersey 101.5. Crivelli said the post went up just after a violent protest in Trenton on May 31 aga...

On Floyd verdict, talk is cheap. Police secrecy hasn’t changed in N.J. | Editorial Today 8:00 AM Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin listens as the verdict is read in his trial for the 2020 death of George Floyd (AP Photo).Court TV via AP, Pool Facebook Share Before the video surfaced of George Floyd’s murder, Minneapolis police put out a crisp statement that somebody died in custody because of a “medical incident.” If not for a teenager with a cell phone, we might never ha...

Yolanda "Yonnie" Deaver, a Camden businesswoman who marched in protest after George Floyds death, on Tuesday celebrated three guilty verdicts against his accused killer, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. "I felt overwhelmed with joy," Deaver said as she described seeing the verdicts being announced on national television. "My heart kind of skipped a beat a little bit." Deaver last year organized a protest march to Camdens Police Administration Building, a walk that was joined by...

But attacks happen much lower down government ranks, too. In the latest instance, the myNewJersey portal for state employees was victim to whats known as a credential stuffing attack, using compromised login credentials, according to the Office of Information Technology. Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission warned that it had seen an uptick in such attacks that "significantly increases various risks for firms, including but not limited to financial, regulatory, legal, and reputatio...

When COVID-19 swept into North Jersey 10 months ago, it struck the Hawthorne Police Department particularly hard. Almost a third of the squads 34 officers fell ill almost at once, sending then-Chief Richard McAuliffe into a mad scramble to stagger schedules, change shifts and keep his officers away from each other.  That was the worst of it — current Chief James Knepper said only a few officers have caught the virus since. But the spring disaster made an imprint. And now that the vaccin...