The 12:31 a.m. rescue by officer Eric El-Zind happened less than 100 yards before the river makes the 77-foot drop down the ...

A Paterson police officer risked his life in the middle of the night to rescue a woman drifting toward the 77-foot drop at ...

In a statement following the decision, Mr. Platkin thanked the court. “As we have said for years, my office’s supersession of the Paterson Police Department is lawful,” he said.

One was the July 2024 allocation of state funding for the operation of the Police Department. The other was a Paterson-specific law enacted in July 2023 that changed the job requirements for ...