What We Covered in 2025 Part 5: Public Safety, Policing, and Institutional Risk
Three articles connected to police bureaucracy and the risks connected to failures of oversight and training, along with a response...
What We Covered in 2025 Part 4: Transparency, Public Records and Oversight
After all these years, we’re still seeking answers to the same question – when residents ask for information or demand...
The Justice System
The ninth article in an ongoing series intended to help NJ residents, especially students, understand their local and state government....
From ‘Street Cop’ to State Oversight- NJ Launches Centralized Police Training Institute
Starting January 1, 2026, a new directive from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office will overhaul professional development for police...
Loretta Rivers: ‘We must not allow silence to be the response to tragedy.’
Following our Deadly Discretion report on the killing of 68 year old Deborah McCalla Terrell, NJ21st invited community members and...
Deadly Discretion: What New Jersey’s Use-of-Force Reforms Still Leave Unanswered
Earlier this month the New Brunswick police were called to a senior apartment building after getting calls about a woman...
Bond Blow-Up, Freelance Shake-Up, Police Records Battle, and Residents Speak Out
Like. What. The. Actual… This week’s newsletter starts with a saga that could fill an entire article. On August 3,...
The Limits of Disclosure… What NJ Monitor’s Supreme Court Victory Means for Police Transparency in NJ
The New Jersey Supreme Court made a big call this week in connection to police transparency. At the center of...
Medicaid Cuts, Forced Treatment…The Resurgent War on the Poor & What’s Coming for NJ’s Vulnerable
-John Migueis I’ve lived in New Jersey my whole life, and I’ve come to see this state as one strange...
Statewide Justice Trends – Visualizing New Jersey’s Prison Landscape
Beyond the raw figures of New Jersey’s justice system are countless individual lives, each deeply shaped by everything from where...