As demonstrations over police brutality rocked the country in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, Newark was held up as a model of police reform, a department so transformed by federal intervention that its officers had not fired a single shot that year.The department had revamped its disciplinary process, established New Jersey's first civilian complaint review board and kept the peace during local protests even as the police in other cities clashed violently with demonstrators.
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