The Trenton Police Department is under investigation by the U.S. Attorney's Office and Department of Justice for civil rights violations, officials said Tuesday.
Faced with surging gun violence in the state’s cities, lawmakers are looking to revise New Jersey’s bail reform system so that more people accused of gun crimes would be detained until their trial.
After two days of peaceful protests, the city's downtown saw looting and vandalism late Sunday in a night of escalation in which at least two police cars were set ablaze.
More than two dozen Urban Enterprise Zones are operating in cities across the Garden State, charging customers half the normal sales tax. But the UEZs are set to expire over the next couple of years.