Newark Police’s Consent Decree: A Solid Foundation for a Work in Progress

On November 19, 2025, Judge Madeline Cox Arleo of United States District Court for the District of New Jersey terminated a nine-year Consent Decree entered into between the City of Newark and the Department of Justice. The Consent Decree was  established in 2016 to address findings of unconstitutional and racist policing by the Newark Police Division.

We now live in two New Jerseys that are even further apart.

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