Many in attendance at Tuesday night's meeting were personally connected to victims of alleged police wrongdoing. Emotions ran high as the police takeover was discussed.
Paterson community members rallied at Tuesday's city council meeting until 3 a.m., in what was an emotional discussion about the local police department.
Some city council members say they were kept in the dark about the sweeping changes, and admitted they don't know what the state takeover of the police department will even look like. Some were hopeful the Attorney General's takeover of the police department could be the start of a long road to fixing a department that has been riddled with investigations and controversy.
Paterson is the latest - and largest - department taken over by New Jersey's attorney general in recent years. Among the others are the 11-officer Lavallette department, as well as three others in Union County.
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