FEDERAL MONITORING OF NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE IS OVER
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Trenton - (WBGO News 9/22/2009)

A decade of federal monitoring of the New Jersey State Police is over. A federal judge has dissolved the consent decree meant to end motor vehicle stops that are the result of racial profiling.

Officials say procedures now in place in the State Police have ended the need for that decree. Reverend Reginald Jackson, the executive director of the Black Ministers Council of New Jersey says the decree helped close the gap between the state police force and minorities

“We still face many challenges with local police. That problem is still great and that’s the challenge now we’ve got to take on.”

 State Troopers Fraternal Association President David Jones is encouraging  local police departments to embrace data collection systems

 “Every police department better become proactive in this because the downside is you get yourself caught up in this political turmoil. Even an agency as great as ours got turned on its ear for about a decade.”

Jones says installing cameras in patrol cars can help local  police departments prevent problems.

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