PBA president says new weed law restricts cops from ‘upholding basic law and order’
The head of the state’s largest law enforcement union is sounding alarms over the outcome of a marijuana legalization law he claims is restricting police officers from “upholding basic law and order across New Jersey.”
In a letter to Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin last week and was obtained by the New Jersey Globe, New Jersey State Policemen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Colligan said that minors have learned that that police officers can’t detain, search or arrest them without potentially facing civil rights charges.