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.
Weinberg-Gopal Bill Creates ELEC Unit to Investigate Sexual Misconduct Complaints in NJ Politics January 28, 2021, 3:40 pm | in
Weinberg-Gopal Bill Creates ELEC Unit to Investigate Sexual Misconduct Complaints in NJ Politics
Proposed measure, backed by Katie Brennan and leading activists, requires campaigns, party organizations to implement anti-harassment policies, training and confidential complaint process
TRENTON – Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg and Senator Vin Gopal today introduced legislation requiring campaigns and political parties to implement anti-harassment policies, training and a confidential complaint process, and establishing an independent governmental unit to investigate complaints of sexual misconduct in the political arena.
The Weinberg-Gopal bill, S-3389, would establish an independent investigative unit not subject to control by campaign, party or elected officials to receive and probe allegations of sexual
Our favorite op-eds from readers in 2020 | Opinion
Updated Jan 04, 2021;
There were plenty of opinions in 2020. Should the president be impeached? Should we shut down the economy? How do we make Black lives matter? Should we replace a U.S. Supreme Court justice in the twilight of a president’s term? And we published hundreds of views on those issues and others. We’ve picked some of our favorites from a very tumultuous year. Just click the headline to read the entire piece.
“Don’t be afraid of Covid.”
Those are five of the most thoughtless, insensitive and painful words I have ever read in my life. How could you say such a thing when over 200,000 Americans have tragically lost their lives to this devastating and deadly virus? How many people are grieving the loss of a loved one like I am, only to have those five words reopen our wounds that we are still trying to heal from?