How a Fleeting Encounter With an Officer Changed Khalif Cooper’s Life “Why did you run from me?” an officer asked Khalif Cooper, then 28, immediately after the shooting in Paterson, N.J. “I was scared,” he answered.
Can a State Takeover Fix the Paterson, N.J., Police Department? A string of police shootings and abuse in Paterson, N.J., led the state attorney general to seize control of the department.