For 8 Months, Traffic Enforcement on New Jersey’s Highways Plummeted

real cool to hear that NJ cops are also afraid they are too racist to do their jobs

The duration and scope of the slowdown are unrivaled in modern policing, according to academics who study traffic data and law enforcement tactics in the United States. The reduction in traffic enforcement within the State Police is now the subject of a criminal investigation by the New Jersey attorney general, Matthew J. Platkin, according to five people with knowledge of the inquiry who were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

The drastically reduced levels of enforcement began the week after the release of a report that found glaring racial disparities in road safety enforcement. The analysis evaluated more than a decade’s worth of State Police traffic stops and reopened a stubborn wound in a department that spent a decade under the control of a federal consent decree because of similar patterns of bias.