PATERSON — Total overtime payments for city police jumped by 69% — from almost $3 million in 2022 to more than $5 million in 2023 — after the New Jersey attorney general took control of the department. Community leaders say those numbers are not surprising considering the pervasive police presence they have seen on Paterson’s […]
Ryan Curving, a 50-year-old retired Paterson police sergeant, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography in the Texas Gulf Coast town where he lives. Curving, who retired in 2021 after 25 years in the Paterson Police Department, pleaded guilty to his crimes last year, said the United States attorney for the […]
PATERSON — Teddie Martinez, an activist who has been outspoken for years against police misconduct, has been hired by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office as community liaison between Paterson residents and city cops. Martinez previously worked for the Paterson Healing Collective violence intervention group, but he was fired last year in a dispute with […]
Crime has dropped significantly in Paterson for over a year. I certainly appreciate the daily and effective efforts of the men and women in our Police Department, but as I have said repeatedly, we cannot arrest all of our problems away. We have improved public safety in Paterson by taking a compassionate and holistic approach. […]
PATERSON — Former police Sgt. Michael Cheff is trying to get his prison time reduced based on a change in federal sentencing guidelines for offenders who have no prior convictions. Cheff in May 2022 was convicted of conspiracy and filing false police reports for his role as the sergeant who supervised the notorious “robbery squad” […]
PATERSON — Violent crime plummeted in the city in 2023, a reduction that seems to have surpassed public safety gains made in other cities around the country. Homicides in Paterson dropped by 39% last year, shootings by 33%, sexual assaults by 25%, robberies by 23%, and aggravated assaults by 16%, according to statistics from the […]
A caravan of an estimated 180 cars drove from Paterson to Teaneck on Sunday to protest in support of Gaza and Palestine. Teaneck Mayor Michael Pagan told NorthJersey.com that the township’s focus is on public safety. “We’re doing our due diligence to keep everyone in the community safe,” he said before noting that while the […]
It takes a village to raise a child, goes the adage. Add a garden, says the U.S Department of Agriculture. The garden at Alonzo “Tambua” Moody Academy in Paterson, an alternative high school for struggling teens who have left the city’s other high schools and need help transitioning back into them, is a row of seven […]