The Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office was investigating the circumstances surrounding the police response at the Bridgewater Commons mall after a video showed officers' response to a fight involving a Black teen and a white teen.
on Friday reminded law enforcement leaders of a policy barring “racially-influenced policing.”
“Regardless of that investigation’s outcome, even the appearance of racially disparate treatment is detrimental to community and law enforcement relations, and to public confidence in the criminal justice system,” he wrote. “The Directive prohibits sworn officers and civilian employees of law enforcement agencies in the State of New Jersey from considering a person’s race or ethnicity as a factor in drawing an inference or conclusion that the person may be involved in criminal activity or as a factor in exercising police discretion as to how to stop or otherwise treat the person,” Platkin’s letter said.
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