Today is the 60th anniversary of the arrest of Freedom Rider Byron Baer, a longtime New Jersey legislator who was charged with attempting to desegregate a
Police disciplinary records should be public | Opinion
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
Posted Feb 02, 2021
Two members of the Middlesex Black-Jewish Coalition say public safety can only come from trust between the police and the communities they serve. Trusting the police without requiring accountability and transparency amounts to unquestioning acceptance including acceptance of police misconduct and complicity in the suffering it causes. The cycle of police misconduct and secrecy has led to broken trust.
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By Sonya Headlam and Rebecca Cypess
In his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” If we are not vigilant in safeguarding justice for all people, no one’s justice is secure. We write as two women from different backgrounds who are united in our conviction that Dr. King’s words must continue to be a guiding principle for all of us today.