policing

Alim Howell speaks to NBC10’s Lucy Bustamante about the purpose of the annual Race for Peace Police Meet and Greet.

House Democrats have pushed through a long-sought policing and public safety package after overcoming internal differences on legislation they plan to make central to their election-year pitch. The package of four bills passed in succession —all with bipartisan support — and now head to the Senate, where their fate is uncertain. The Democrats’ success came after party leaders spent hours...

An Associated Press investigation found a woman informant was allegedly raped twice during an undercover drug sting last year in which her law enforcement handlers left her unmonitored and unprotected.

New Jersey’s acting attorney general wants to make a change to police arrest practices in the state, starting with anyone who has a warrant out for a low-level offense. Police “in most instances” should no longer arrest people with municipal court bench warrants with bail amounts of $500 or less, Acting Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced last week. Bench warrants…