New Jersey has been granted federal judicial permission to withdraw from the Waterfront Commission, the New York/New Jersey agency responsible for fighting organized crime and corruption in the region's ports and harbors since 1953. The compact (codified in New Jersey at N.J.S.A. §32:23-1 et seq.) enabled both states to regulate the hiring, licensing, and management of longshoremen, stevedores, and other port workers by an agency that was independent of the states' respective police departments.