(Bobby Brier/NJ Spotlight News)‘Street teams’ forced to lay off workers, reduce programs
(Bobby Brier/NJ Spotlight News)‘Street teams’ forced to lay off workers, reduce programs

Interview: Aqeela Sherrills, co-founder, Community-Based Public Safety Collective
(Taylor Jung/NJ Spotlight News; Courtesy of Paterson Healing Collective)Advocates push for promise of Seabrooks-Washington legislation to be fulfilled
(AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)Services offered by community groups are limited by lack of sustainable funding, advocates say
(NJ Spotlight News)Groups say Department of Health should direct how state delivers funding to them
(Genesis Obando/NJ Spotlight News)'Guns Down, Gloves Up' arming kids in Trenton against street violence
(NJ Spotlight News)Bill would give groups a stable funding source but NJ lawmakers are on summer break

Merrick Garland meets with top law enforcement officials

Mayor Baraka says crime in the city has been steadily decreasing

There are fears that federal money for hospital-based programs could soon run out

The Cut It Out program at Raritan Valley Community College teaches students how to talk to clients that may be victims of domestic abuse, as ...

Assemblyman Lou Greenwald spearheaded a package of six bills to curb violence in the cities most affected. There was unopposed support in the legislation that ...