PATERSON The number of excessive force complaints filed against Paterson police officers in recent years was about 27% higher than those for Newark and Jersey City cities with far more residents, far more cops and more crime.
Paterson police received 156 excessive force complaints from 2015 through 2019, while Jersey City had 123 and Newark had 122, Paterson Press found in analyzing five years of Internal Affairs reports for the state s three most populous cities.
Paterson also had the lowest rate of excessive force complaints that were sustained during that period about 1%, compared with about 3% for Jersey City and 19% for Newark, the annual reports showed.
For all three cities, the vast majority of the excessive force complaints were filed by residents.
Paterson shooting victim illustrates cycle of crime, prison and death
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The death of Jaquan Harrison earlier this month in Paterson, New Jersey hasn’t garnered a lot of media attention. After all, Harrison was a convicted felon who had been released from prison just a few weeks before he was shot and killed, and it’s easy to dismiss his death as just another criminal who was shot and killed by another. A closer look at Harrison’s murder, however, reveals a fundamental problem with how the state (and many others) approaches the issue of violent crime.
New Jersey has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation, and while those who want to legally own a gun are severely burdened by the state’s restrictive policies (it’s virtually impossible for the average citizen to obtain a carry license, for instance), violent criminals across the state are routinely ignoring the laws. The “ban our way to safety” approach isn’t working, because those most responsible for violent acts don’t care about the restrictions imposed by the stat
Robert Nickelsberg
Overview
Over the past decade, attempts to address the overdose crisis in the U.S. have resulted in more restrictive opioid prescribing policies which, because they have reduced the overall availability of prescription opioids, have inadvertently led to a surge in the use of illicit drugs such as heroin.
Because these illicit opioids are often injected, they’re associated with higher rates of overdose than prescription painkillers, and, when unsterile injection equipment is used or shared, people are at risk of getting a serious infection or transmitting disease.
1 As of March 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined that 44 states; Washington, D.C.; one tribal nation; and one territory were experiencing or at risk of an acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) or HIV outbreak due to injection drug use.
PATERSON A man accused of punching a one-year-old boy in the stomach a blow that authorities say caused the child to undergo emergency surgery last Christmas Day gave his five-year-old daughter a Barbie doll to get the girl to lie to detectives, according to criminal complaints against the suspect.
In exchange for the toy, the little girl told investigators that she not her father hit the toddler in the stomach with a hammer after the boy bit her finger, according to police records.
The man, 37-year-old Jeanandre Desir, allegedly also gave his eight-year-old son $1 to go along with the story that his little sister inflicted the toddler’s injury with a hammer, said an affidavit of probable cause filed in Superior Court in Paterson.
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