NYTimes: Police in New Jersey’s Capital Violate Residents’ Rights, U.S. Finds

“‘I think it’s preferable to have enforcement like this done by the attorney general because they’re local, and they understand the culture and the people far better than the Department of Justice can,’ said James E. Tierney, a former attorney general of Maine and a lecturer at Harvard Law School.
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’[But i]f the Department of Justice shuts down its civil rights division, it’s also a tremendous loss,’ Mr. Tierney said. ‘It sends a green light to malfeasance everywhere, all over the country.’”

Christopher Maag, "Police in New Jersey’s Capital Violate Residents’ Rights, U.S. Finds," New York Times, Nov. 21, 2024