NJ has a police use of force database
- Thread starter Nintendough
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Damn this is pretty troubling, but reinforces some of the narratives we already knew.
- While using force is a normal and necessary part of policing, NJ Advance Media found glaring disparities across the state that warrant review. Ten percent of officers accounted for 38 percent of all uses of force. A total of 296 officers used force more than five times the state average, according to the database.
- Whenever police use force, the stakes are high. At least 9,302 people were injured by police from 2012 through 2016. At least 4,210 of those were serious enough that the subject was sent to the hospital, though reporting of hospitalization is inconsistent. At least 156 officers put at least one person in the hospital in each of the five years reviewed.
- Statewide, a black person was more than three times more likely to face police force than someone who is white. In Millville in South Jersey, black people faced police force at more than five times the rate of whites. In South Orange, it was nearly nine times. In Lakewood, it was an astronomical 21 times.
- The system for reporting use-of-force by police is a mess. Different departments use different forms, making tracking difficult. Officers self-reported incidents, but thousands of reports were incomplete, illegible, lacking supervisory review or missing altogether. At least 62 times, forms were so sloppy the officers accidentally marked themselves as dead.
- New Jersey fails to monitor trends to flag officers who use disproportionately high amounts of force. The state recently implemented a new early warning system to identify potential problem officers but did not mandate tracking use-of-force trends as a criteria, which experts called a gaping hole in oversight.
- Hundreds of N.J. cops are using force at alarming rates. The state's not tracking them. So we did.
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@Rhakim @88m3 @Paper Boi @tru_m.a.c @FAH1223 @ADevilYouKhow might want to check this out HL brehs....
ORDER_66
Demon Time coming 2024
Officers self-reported incidents, but thousands of reports were incomplete, illegible, lacking supervisory review or missing altogether. At least 62 times, forms were so sloppy the officers accidentally marked themselves as dead.
WHAT???!!
Nintendough
#Kliq
I work in emergency medicine. We have to write state reports. We are just now being clamped down on for the quality of the report. Now we cant even lock our reports unless it meets a certain criteria. So other public service disciplines are trying to catch up.
SheWantTheD
Veteran
We already know this shyt.. them motherfukkas ain't shyt.
And we supposed to say blue lives matter?
They are basically legal criminals.
And we supposed to say blue lives matter?
They are basically legal criminals.
Yeah if I'm not mistaken the NYPD has the same type of database that's off limits to the public.
That's the thing about police brutality. The admin knows exactly which officers/precincts cause the most issues because they have the data on it, they just refuse to do anything about it.
ORDER_66
Demon Time coming 2024
Yeah, but I'm saying how you mark yourself off on the reports as DEAD....
Your filling out the reports dumbass...
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
They've been violent and corrupt forever. Their cops also write tickets nonstop as well. I rarely drive through or visit Jersey at all, not because of the police alone though.
Hopefully this can lead to a positive change
Hopefully this can lead to a positive change
Oh yeah this clutch. Now that we have this information what can we do with it ? 
It's good that they're tracking and documenting it. Don't see anything that wasn't already well known.