Pittsburgh Post-Gazette By Joe Smydo and Rich Lord Responding to a 911 call of a man trying to force his sister from an apartment, Pittsburgh police encountered Ian Bankert on…
A new style of training for police recruits emphasizes techniques to better de-escalate conflict situations. BURIEN, WASH. — The police recruits arrived in pairs in the woods outside Seattle. For…
CAMDEN – A Camden County Police officer was honored Monday at the department’s Camden headquarters for his work to reduce bullying and violence at city schools. Lt. Jeremy Merck received the Teach…
Police officers in New Jersey are 30 percent more likely to commit suicide than the general population — and the numbers appear to be getting worse despite state programs designed…
By Michael Hill Correspondent Camden County Police Officer Sean McMahon has felt compelled to use his department-issued taser twice. Once on a knife wheedling emotionally disturbed man. He said, “Anytime…
By Cristina Rojas | For NJ.com January 27, 2016 at 9:20 PM TRENTON — For the past eight years, Richard White has lived under an overpass near the train tracks — through…
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. — Englewood Police Officer Adolfo Gutierrez, a CIT-NJ Center of Excellence Graduate and now CIT-NJ Instructor, rescued a 66-year-old city man who shot himself in his car in…
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…
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…
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…