By Brenda Flanagan, NJ Spotlight News
The U.S. Department of Justice this week said it found police officers in Trenton use excessive force and unlawfully stop, search and arrest people, but social justice advocates are skeptical that much will change.
In the wake of the federal department’s release of its report, several advocates said the DOJ’s proposed reforms don’t push hard enough, and they feared the monitoring will ultimately lose strength in the next Trump administration as well.
“Just the same old routine script is not going to work for us at the NAACP,” said Trenton NAACP’s Austin Edwards. “What we want to see is a lot more changes.”
Related:
DOJ says Trenton police violate civil rights, engage in unconstitutional conduct (ABC News)
DOJ finds a pattern of misconduct by police in Trenton, New Jersey (CNN)
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