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TRENTON — After months of consultation with police and community stakeholders, “sweeping changes” to New Jersey’s police use of force policy were announced Monday by state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal. The changes, designed to limit the use of force by New Jersey’s 38,000 state, county and local law enforcement officers, are the first revision to the state use of force policy in two decades and include prioritization of de-escalation tactics by police before physical or deadly force can be used, as well as a commitment to more training and partnerships to deal wi...

New NJ rule: Police force has to be an absolute last resort Published: December 21, 2020 New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal attends the swearing in ceremony of Acting Prosecutor Lyndsay Ruotolo at the Union County Courthouse in Elizabeth, N.J. on Thursday, July 18, 2019. (Office of the Attorney General / Tim Larsen) New Jersey is updating its “use of force” policy for the first time in two decades to put strict limits on how police interact with civilians. Police officers will be prohibited from all forms of physical force against civilians, except as a last resort after de-escalat...

Killer cop shows the costs of secrecy | Editorial Updated Dec 16, 2020; Posted Dec 16, 2020 Officer Philip Seidle shot his estranged wife, Tamara Wilson-Seidle, to death in from of their 7-year-old daughter in Asbury Park in 2015. (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media Facebook Share Neptune cops just released more than 800 pages of internal affairs records on a fellow officer who killed his ex-wife with 12 gunshots in front of their 7-year-old daughter. They did so only when forced to by the Attorney General, following a years-long court battle with a ...