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UPDATE: Jersey City Man With Mental Health History Shot By Police UPDATE: Jersey City Man With Mental Health History Shot By Police
Update: Jersey City Man With Mental Health History Shot By Police One of a group of specially-trained Jersey City police officers shot and killed a knife-wielding city man after he charged at them in his apartment, authorities said. An EMS unit was the first to respond to 2:15 p.m. call at the Randolph Avenue residence in the Bergen-Lafayette section of the city on Sunday, Aug. 27, according to a release issued late Monday by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin. "Upon arrival, they requested the assistance of the Jersey City Police Department," the attorney general said. Patrol officers arrived just before 2:30 p.m. and tried to communicate with …

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
‘Win-Win’: New Hackensack Police Pact Boasts Changes Aimed At Boosting Growing Prestige ‘Win-Win’: New Hackensack Police Pact Boasts Changes Aimed At Boosting Growing Prestige
‘Win-Win’: New Hackensack Police Pact Boasts Changes Aimed At Boosting Growing Prestige A new contract secured by the union representing more than 100 Hackensack police officers gives them a 2.75% pay bump and revises their work schedule for the first time in nearly 25 years. Officers will move to 12-hour work tours, from what had been 11 hours, under the five-year deal collectively bargained between the city and New Jersey State Police Benevolent Association's Local #9. They’ll work alternately for 16 days of 8-day shifts, followed by 16 days of 8-night shifts, or vice versa -- with critically consistent starting and finishing times. At the same time, “major modifications” t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
WATCH: Video Shows Woman Stab Two Newark Police Officers WATCH: Video Shows Woman Stab Two Newark Police Officers
Watch: Video Shows Woman Stab Two Newark Police Officers The Newark Police Department released police body cam footage showing a woman stabbing two officers with a knife during a heated confrontation July 4.  Police responded to a home in the Central Ward around 1:20 a.m. on a report of an emotionally disturbed person acting violently. Video shows the two responding  officers finding the 31-year-old woman, whose name was not released, sitting on the front stoop.  Officers are then seen speaking to the woman, who is visibly distraught and swearing at them. The confrontation escalated until the woman tries to leave, as seen in the vi…

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by Paul Milo