More police officers and firefighters would be eligible for pensions after 20 years on the job, regardless of their age, under a bill moving in Trenton.
Legislation making police and firefighters who got sick volunteering at Ground Zero eligible for accidental disability pensions gets amended to include EMTs.
Despite objections from one of the unions that would be involved, a bipartisan Senate panel advanced a plan to shift the police/fire pension to a labor-run board.
Ticket quotas aren’t legal in New Jersey, but a police union says they're happening through discipline of officers. Lawmakers may change rules for evaluations.