The New Jersey State Police assigned troopers cited for disciplinary issues — some who had been suspended for driving while intoxicated, assault, and falsifying reports — as coaches to its new recruits, according to a new report by the Office of the State Comptroller. At the same time, the report also found that some instructors at the training academy skipped entire segments from courses mandated by the U.S. Justice Department under a consent decree that came after a racial profiling scandal that called into question the long-standing culture of the State Police. According to the comptroller,…
