Hopefully this woman gets reassigned if she is actually with the city. Who acts like that really ?

It would be interesting to know if the city has GPS installed in both the staffers and cops vehicles, and has access to the logs. Might rule out the suspicion that the cops knew they were being reassigned and setup the staffer...

I don't suppose there's any way we could find out who the staffer is. Perhaps she was someone that Fulop hired over from the Healy administration. The fact that he didn't seem to clean out most of the Healy people from city hall is just a major disappointment to me.

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Then this bit doesn't make sense:

"The driver in the Dodge followed the officers until they turned onto Monmouth Street, when she passed them by driving northbound in the southbound lane, according to the lawsuit."

There is no southbound lane on Monmouth, it only runs north - perhaps they meant she continued north in the "left turn only" lane instead of turning NW into Newark Ave? Or didn't make a right in the right-only lane, eastbound at Columbus?

Seems to be missing some info. Brunswick and Monmouth run parallel

I guess it could have been more clear. She followed them from Brunswick onto Montgomery onto Monmouth, according to the suit.

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I can't put this on Fulop, he can't be responsible for the attitude of someone who may be a staffer with an attitude.

This sounds a little far fetched.

Seems to me this administration is no different than the last. I thought Fulop wasn't going to run his administration this way, guess he lied too.

I hope there should be some transparency and the results of the investigation posted. No on should be above the law. I detest people who get those police passes to wiggle themselves out if a traffic ticket.

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Yep. Must mean Newark, not Brunswick. Makes no sense otherwise.

Seems to be missing some info. Brunswick and Monmouth run parallel. In any case if the woman was tailgating then she's a menace.

Jersey City police chief threatened to 'ruin' cops over traffic stop, lawsuit says

By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal

Jersey City Police Chief Robert Cowan retaliated against four police officers and threatened to ?ruin? them after a Dec. 1 traffic stop of a woman who claimed to be a politically connected city aide, a new federal lawsuit claims.

The four officers, including one sergeant and three patrolmen, say Cowan transferred them all to less desirable posts after the woman complained about being stopped, according to the 20-page lawsuit.

The chief then stifled the officers? first amendment rights when he disciplined them for complaining to their unions about the transfers, the four allege in the lawsuit, filed Dec. 14 by the officers and the city?s two police unions against the city, Cowan and the woman.

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