Latino groups: Police need oversight - Freehold, New Jersey

A Latino outreach group believes citizen-police review boards should be established at the municipal level and residents should be able to go online to download forms to file an internal affairs complaint.

The group also said departments should post guidelines for citizens, letting them know how to file complaints against police, and in areas with large, non-English-speaking populations, those procedures should be posted in other languages as well.”*

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