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December 22, 2015 PATERSON — A woman who was threatening to jump from an overpass across Route 19 was on Sunday night talked down from the span by a city…
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November 20, 2015 PATERSON, NJ — A city police officer trained in crisis negotiations talked an emotionally disturbed man out of jumping from the roof of a garage on Madison…
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Suburban police officers dealing with an increase in mental health and substance abuse calls are not equipped to handle such crises, experts say. That’s why social workers at police departments…
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Police across the United States are rethinking how they use force amid national outrage over questionable shootings and violent arrests. The changes include efforts in Dallas to train officers to…
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Ancora Psychiatric Hospital reported the most violence among the state’s four psychiatric hospitals during a nine-month period in 2015, according to a new report published by the New Jersey Division of Mental Health and Addiction…