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    Quasar FunkBrendan O'Connor
    3/30/16 8:25pm

    The reforms “will get Newark to where it needs to be.”

    The middle of the Atlantic Ocean?

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      ImjustacavemanQuasar Funk
      3/30/16 9:01pm

      Newarks slogan “Better Than Detroit by 2030!”.

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      puncha yo bunsQuasar Funk
      3/30/16 9:22pm

      Lol I’m used to getting shit on about my hometown (really it’s like a double shitting because NJ gets the armpit of America shit and then Newark gets shit from everybody in NJ), but I’m proud of Newark. Builds character! Wouldn’t have changed it for the world. It’s also a very historic city with lots of nice things to see and do, and yes, a lot of impoverished neighborhoods (CHARACTER BUILDING I TELL YOU).

      (Also to Gurvisback’s point—Whitney, Shaq, Lauryn Hill/the Fugees, Brian DePalma, Queen Latifah, Ray Liotta, Eva Marie Saint, Gloria Gaynor, Frankie Valli, Jason Alexander...I mean, we turn ‘em out. Just waitin’ for MY moment /s)

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    Fred Garvin Male ProstituteBrendan O'Connor
    3/30/16 8:31pm
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      SqarrBrendan O'Connor
      3/30/16 8:22pm

      “Agrees to,” but will they actually implement them?

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        KittyReavenSqarr
        3/30/16 9:14pm

        Don’t a lot of places agree to reforms then not actually do anything and complain that it costs too much?

        I think Ferguson did that.

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        SqarrKittyReaven
        3/30/16 9:15pm

        That’s what I’m saying.

        Celebrating the one thing like it means something, without backing it up with the other thing is stupid.

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      Sean RBrendan O'Connor
      3/31/16 9:08am

      The Civil Rights Division has maybe been Obama’s best managerial success as president. Hiring Holder, who was immediately ready to clean up the complete shitpile Bush had left Justice, giving Thomas Perez his first federal appointment to get the CRD back in shape and picking the succession of acting Asst AGs in charge of the division. Vanita Gupta, the current acting Asst AG and former top ACLU attorney, has spent 13 years racking up civil rights victories, thankfully doing so for the last two years in the government’s employ.

      All the times you hear about a police department settling with the federal government and getting forcibly reformed, such as in Maricopa County and Ferguson, that is the Civil Rights Division.

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        GeorgeGeoffersonLivesBrendan O'Connor
        3/31/16 2:01am

        The most foreign thing about this from most of the rest of the country is the idea of “pedestrian stops.” lol Everytime I read one of these stories out of the northeast I have to recalibrate my thinking and realize there are enough people out walking to stop.

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          GoneIn60MinutesBrendan O'Connor
          3/30/16 9:21pm

          The gangs in Newark are very excited about this settlement. It was already pretty much impossible to police Newark with all the cutbacks. Now the remaining cops are going to be so afraid to do their job that the criminals will be able to have a total free-for-all. I say this as a former Newark resident who used to sit on my front steps every afternoon to relax and watch the cops chase teens in stolen cars.

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            m9105826GoneIn60Minutes
            3/30/16 9:45pm

            Maybe if 75 percent of their stops weren’t without legal reason that budget would go a bit further?

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            Sassinak11GoneIn60Minutes
            3/30/16 10:09pm

            I am not sure where you are getting your notions from. But if the police devoted their precious and limited manpower to actual KNOWN criminals instead of fishing expeditions, then resources would go further. I’m sorry but all they have done is a wedge between the community and the police, so when the community does have news/details they are not going to report anything, spending more time on DWB/DWL rather than proper police work to arrest the criminals they do have because that takes work. It takes no effort to puff your chest and abuse others. (and if they happen to catch a low level crook with a gram of weed on them, lock ‘em up and use it to justify how they got that “drug peddling menace that was going after the kids off the streets and properly and safely behind bars”.

            And I might add, if the cameras are in fact going to hinder them, then I would LOVE to know why it’s ok for citizens to have a spotlight on their lives 24/7 under the guise of “if you have nothing to hide....” but yet, they (the police, who are SUPPOSED to be under the scrutiny of the public as well as their superiors) are worried that their actions might be misconstrued to reviewers of the tape. (can you spell double standard?... I knew you could...)

            In short, do your job, stop abusing/harassing people because you “think” their is an issue.. do some ACTUAL police/detective work (which will actually REDUCE the load because instead of working through hundreds of thousands of useless leads, you work a few dozen actual productive cases and make a REAL difference as opposed to one that looks good on paper but is ineffectual at best and harmful at worst)

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          BabyGroundhogEyesBrendan O'Connor
          3/30/16 9:10pm

          So does Newark happen to have a bridge that Christie can shut-down iffn this somehow manages to just piss his big fat New Jersey ass off in any way ? If they send him a truck-load of pizza, will that change his mind ??

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            Sid and FinancyBrendan O'Connor
            3/30/16 8:45pm

            I am floored by the allegations that there are pedestrians walking around Newark.

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