NJ Police Training Conference Promoted Discrimination and Unlawful Tactics, State Report Finds

Over 200 New Jersey officers attended the event, which featured more than 100 discriminatory comments and undermined police reform efforts.

New Jersey's comptroller has found that a training conference attended by over 200 New Jersey police officers featured offensive and discriminatory content against women and racial minorities, and promoted potentially unlawful police tactics.
The six-day conference, which almost 1,000 officers from around the country attended, had in its audience more than 200 officers from various New Jersey agencies and municipalities.
Speakers at the conference made more than 100 discriminatory and harassing comments, with repeated references to speakers’ genitalia, lewd gestures, and demeaning quips about women and minorities.
The event also romanticized a militaristic approach to policing, while presenters promoted an ‘us vs. them’ approach and espoused views and tactics that would undermine almost a decade of police reform efforts in New Jersey.
The comptroller's office referred its findings to several offices, including the office of state Attorney General Matt Platkin, who said his office had formally referred the findings to the Division on Civil Rights.