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“I've been here 75 years and it's just been getting worse, worse, worse," one resident told FOX 5 New York.

Activists, police union officials, community leaders, and elected officials all have plenty of questions about what comes next for Paterson.

Paterson community members rallied at Tuesday's meeting until 3 a.m., in what was an emotional discussion about the local police department.

New Jersey’s attorney general says his office has taken control of the police department in the state’s third-largest city, Paterson.

The police force in New Jersey's third largest city is now under direct state control. On Monday, Attorney General Matt Platkin announced that his office would assume control of the Paterson Police Department in the wake of a small avalanche of scandals; New York City Police Department (NYPD) Chi

Abbassi served as Commanding Officer of 120th Precinct from 2018 to 2020.

The announcement by Attorney General Matt Platkin came less than a month after Paterson police officers fatally shot a well-known crisis intervention worker during a tense standoff.

New Jersey’s attorney general said Monday that his office has taken control of the police department in the state’s third-largest city, Paterson, less than a month after officers there fatally shot a well-known crisis intervention worker during a tense standoff. Attorney General Matt Platkin said at a news conference that his office had assumed control […]

Chief Thomas Galati, one of the NYPD's most experienced commanders in the area of intelligence and counter terrorism and NYPD Chief Isa Abbassi, head of the department's office of Strategic Initiatives, are leaving the department after many years, officials said.

The changes come days after the release of police body-camera footage showing the death of Najee Seabrooks, a local activist who was in mental distress when cops killed him.