alleging he was fired in retaliation for sending an anonymous complaint to supervisors reporting fellow officers’ illegal activities. Farella joined Rutgers-Newark’s police department in 2001.

Michael Runyon ran through his options. Gripping the wheel of his Jeep Grand Cherokee one morning in July 2014, the Trenton ...

A federal civil rights suit says a pair of Black teenagers were verbally harassed last July by two Newark Police officers who then slammed them against a wall and punched one in the face ...

Following behind were hundreds of law enforcement officers from the Newark Police Department and countless others, forming a line of blue that stretched far down the road. “Many of us who end up ...

Two Newark police officers were shot around 6:35 p.m. Friday evening, one critically injured, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. Both officers were rushed to University Hospital ...

Officers from neighboring communities gathered outside University Hospital on Friday night to show support for the Newark Police Department. CBS News New York has been told New Jersey Gov.

Police said the gunman fired off more than two dozen shots as officers closed in, fatally striking Azcona, a five-year-veteran of the Newark Police Department. He’d been responding to the area ...

The teenager accused of killing a Newark Police sergeant ... of teenagers with guns. Police say Azcona was shot before he even stepped out of his vehicle. Fellow officers rushed him to a local ...

The teenager was shot about a mile from Rutgers University; however, it was unclear if the investigation impacted students ...