“The High Price of Unregulated Private Police Training to New Jersey,” a 43-page report this month of the New Jersey Comptroller’s Police Accountability Project, provides an excruciatingly painful, if partial, explanation of why too many police in New Jersey (and America generally) fall short of the model community-focused law enforcement organizations we need and deserve.

Based on information obtained from Street Cop, a private police training company, only after a hard-fought court battle, see N.J. Criminal Interdiction LLC v. Walsh, No. A-4009-21, 2022 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2311 (Super. Ct. App. Div. Nov. 23, 2022), the report details racist, unconstitutional, and illegal words and materials provided to police “trainees,” including around 240 from New Jersey.