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 wasestablished 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.
New Jersey should close its three youth prions, reinvest in community-based programs and establish a 21st Century version of the illustrious Bordentown School.
