TRENTON, N.J.
— Police in New Jersey’s capital have shown a pattern of misconduct, including excessive force and unlawful stops, Justice Department officials said Thursday, in a report documenting arrests without a legal basis, officers escalating situations with aggression and unnecessary use of pepper spray.
The Justice Department found the police department’s practices violate the Fourth Amendment and the report makes more than two dozen recommendations for remedial action. The DOJ report paints a scathing picture of a department with about 260 sworn officers in a city of nearly 90,000 people that is beset by poverty and crime, and is uniquely deprived of a property tax base that could fund public safety because of the many state government buildings in the city.
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