Want to know how many Blacks, Asians or Latinos are employed by New Jersey’s police forces? The answer is no one knows a year after a new law requiring the state to provide such information went on the books.
Not only does the state not have the information although officials are promising it will be ready by early 2022 but a public records request made by the USA TODAY Network New Jersey to the state s
540 police departments generated only 53 replies.
“If you’re not measuring what you’re doing, how are you ever going to improve?” said Jiles Ship, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives. “We have to really develop a matrix to measure what we’re doing.”
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The state Assembly gave final approval Thursday to a bill extending education services by one year for disabled students who saw critical programs frozen during the coronavirus pandemic.
The proposal, which received a rare bipartisan vote in the chamber, needs only Gov. Phil Murphy s approval to become law.
“It’s a great day. It validates the supports and services these young people have lacked and will now be able to access, said Mercedes Witowsky, executive director of the New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities. It gives them hope and an option not to fall off that cliff,”
“Falling off a cliff” is how advocates and families of people with disabilities describe the transition to life after 21