The reform was spot-on. The commitment is not.
Don’t miss an issue of our Opinion newsletter! Get it delivered each Wednesday right into your inbox by adding your email below and hitting"subscribe."Indeed, Griffin notes that there were 14 people who died in police-related incidents in 2018, and many of them weren’t settled until the end of 2019 or later.
He has been prescient. But lawmakers need to ask whether those 29 unresolved cases are an aberration or a trend.for these investigations, other than to specify that the body-worn camera footage should be released after 20 days, before the case goes to the grand jury. But the delays in these investigations, as Grewal noted, doesn’t boost public confidence in police transparency – especially in New Jersey, one of the few states in our region that still doesn’t make Internal Affairs records public.
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