PATERSON — Violent crime in Paterson has increased by 4.5% this year, even though the police department says there’s been a significant jump in the number of arrests. Aggravated assaults account for ...

Paterson has seen a 50.6% decrease in the number of shooting victims, with 41 people struck by gunfire in the city in 2025 compared to 83 last year.

The break-in at Jerusalem Jewelry — closed at the time — marked at least the fourth case of a Paterson jewelry store being targeted since 2022.

PATERSON — The number of homicides in the city fell to the lowest level in two decades in 2024, but nearly every other type of crime increased compared with 2023. Paterson’s reduction in killings ...

PATERSON — Violent crime plummeted in the city in 2023, a reduction that seems to have surpassed public safety gains made in other cities around the country. Homicides in Paterson dropped by 39% last ...

Crime has dropped significantly in Paterson for over a year. I certainly appreciate the daily and effective efforts of the men and women in our Police Department, but as I have said repeatedly, we ...

PATERSON, N.J. -- Crime in one New Jersey city has plummeted since the summer began, hitting a five-year low. Police in Paterson say violent crime numbers have been going way down since Memorial Day.

Six months after a surprise state takeover of the troubled police department in New Jersey’s third-largest city, state authorities say crime is down, public sentiment is improving and new technology ...

Almost year into Paterson's police reforms, new year-end reporting indicates that murders, shootings, sexual violence and aggravated assaults were all down compared to 2022 levels. NJ Spotlight News ...

Ex-Gov. David Paterson raged Sunday that the migrants busted for beating two cops in Times Square and then allowed to bolt should be the final straw when it comes to dangerous US border and crime ...