In December 2020, then-New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced a package of policies intended to limit the use of force by New Jersey's 38,000 state, county, and local law enforcement officers.

The new policies came roughly two years after NJ Advance Media published The Force Report, a comprehensive statewide database containing almost 73,000 police use-of-force reports from municipal police departments and the New Jersey State Police (NJSP). One of the findings from the report was that in New Jersey, Black people were more than three times as likely to face police force than white people.