Camden Native and Rutgers Law School 2021 Graduate Prepares for A Career of Advocacy for Her Community : Rutgers-Camden Campus News
Growing up in Camden, Jenise Rivera witnessed police officers stopping friends and neighbors – mostly Hispanic males – randomly. “Police asked people questions that shouldn’t really matter,” Rivera says. “Like when people were hanging around just talking, sitting on steps outside their homes, and kids doing what they normally do, being rambunctious.” National distrust between minority communities and the criminal justice system – born from years of injustices – prompted Rivera...
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