Years of documented civil rights abuses by the Paterson Police Department and a parade of arrested officers have frayed trust between the force and the community.
Bound on both sides by the jagged path of the Passaic River, Broadway in Paterson is a 3-mile strip lined by brightly colored bodegas and local businesses, schools and churches, new construction and blighted buildings.
It also showcases society’s ills: homelessness, drugs and crime that many residents along Broadway say had overtaken this gateway to New Jersey’s third-largest city.S.P. Sullivan is a senior reporter on NJ Advance Media's news desk, covering criminal justice issues, working on investigations and assisting with breaking news. He has covered New Jersey for NJ.com and its affiliated newspapers for more than a decade, most recently as a statehouse reporter.Deion R.
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