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.
Police Pleaded for Hours With a N.J. Man in Crisis. Then They Shot Him New Jersey’s attorney general said that the man, Najee Seabrooks, tried to attack Paterson officers with a knife. They fatally shot him, renewing criticism of using armed officers to deal with people in distress.