For a Notorious Police Department, This Killing Was the Last Straw

“No other state gives its attorney general the power to take control of a local police department, said James E. Tierney, a former attorney general of Maine who works with the National Association of Attorneys General to train lawyers new to the position. It is only the second time that a New Jersey attorney general has exercised that power, and it is the first takeover precipitated by accusations of civil rights abuses.

’It’s a very dramatic thing to do,’ Mr. Tierney said.”

Christopher Maag, “For a Notorious Police Department, This Killing Was the Last Straw,” New York Times, May 30, 2023.