Since 2000, at least 540 people in New Jersey have died during an encounter with the police. Researchers found that 500 of these incidents occurred with officers on duty and 40 happened with off-duty officers. Nationally, estimates indicate that at least 30,000 people...
If you cooperate with the police during an arrest, you expect that there will be no use of unjustifiable force. However, it may not be the case, and you might find yourself nursing physical injuries from a simple arrest, a classic case of police brutality....
Bad behavior by police officers is not just the stuff of movies and television. As a recent article in the New Jersey Star-Ledger documents, one municipality (Edison) has had at least 30 officers either terminated or voluntarily resign over the last 20 years when...
