Attorneys say a watchdog’s recent report that accused instructors for New Jersey’s busiest police training firm of teaching unconstitutional and discriminatory tactics could have serious legal ramifications statewide in the form of dropped charges. At a weeklong 2021 policing conference in Atlantic City run by training firm Street Cop, instructors glorified brutality, encouraged insubordination, endorsed unconstitutional policing tactics, and disparaged women and other marginalized groups. Just about 1,000 officers, including 240 from New Jersey, were in attendance.
Already, Bergen County prosecutors on Thursday dropped charges in a drug case involving Brad Gilmore, a Street Cop trainer whose lectures were cited as problematic. Gilmore was a Ridgefield Park police officer in 2017 when he stopped a car and found two kilograms of heroin in a compartment.
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