Newark NJ, about 8 months ago, NJ Transit Police Officer Pfeifer met Frank. Frank was homeless and accepted Pfeifer’s offer of assistance. For months, Crisis Outreach Officer Pfeifer worked to assist Frank. He linked him with vital services and helped him gather his essential documents. Importantly, Pfeifer helped Frank reactivate and extend a housing voucher. He also helped him find and apply for apartments. When an apartment was found, Project Kind helped to raise the additional funds needed for the security deposit. They also helped us provide Frank with food, clothing, and necessities for his new apartment!
“mental illness is the problem and so far the police and md professional are unable to do anything to treat a person who refuses care
there needs to be some NEW policy … recommended by the medical professionals (not the government) to address these problems with the mentally illness homeless
very sad this person was someone son??? father ? brother? friend? he needs help i hope he receives it .. not short term … but long term assistance to help him control his emotions and behavior”
Ridgewood NJ, Senator Michael Testa said his office has received an internal Murphy administration memorandum detailing plans to release COVID-positive inmates at bus and train stations tomorrow with no warning to the general public.
Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Transit Police Department has expanded its Community Outreach Unit from two to five officers, allowing for more ways to help those in need and to help maintain a safe and healthy environment for all.
“The New Jersey Transit Police Department is one of the best trained and most professional police departments in the country, and a community-based policing approach brings help to the people who need it the most,” said NJ TRANSIT President & CEO Kevin Corbett. “NJ TRANSIT is not only committed to providing safe and essential transit services throughout the state for those who depend on us, we are equally committed to being good community partners.”
Ridgewood NJ, the word on the street is that the homeless man that was alleged to have pulled a knife on a couple in Ridgewood is now camping out in a new location at the Ridgewood Train station .
“This is not the Great Village of Ridgewood anymore. This place has changed dramatically. And not for the better. We all told you you just wait and see until all this new housing is done. Then you’re going to see the characters walking around. Boy oh boy you will see. You will experience things that you never seen in the village. It’s going to look like Hackensack, Paterson, barrage long as it doesn’t look like Hamden that shit hole. Things you will see. !!!!
“Rallies be damned. Help improve the life of this one black man. This would make a serious meaningful impact, more than marching around and shouting. Catherine Brienza? Jeanne Thiesen ? Laurence Fine? Come on you talk the talk now walk the walk.”
“Taking such a man into your home is both dangerous and possibly hazardous. Some, who are merely down on their luck, can be helped but the untrained should never take in anyone with a true mental condition. This man obviously has a mental problem. The Police can keep taking him to Bergen Pines, but he can’t be kept there unless he agrees to treatment. One of the “Defund the Police” suggestions is to keep a specially trained social worker on staff who can be called to go with a police officer to try to defuse this situation. Most officers, however, have been trained to deal with this themselves and, in Ridgewood at least, that would probably be a duplication of services.”
“As several posters said, “We’ve offered help. He doesn’t want it.” It is against the law to commit anyone involuntarily unless he/she is a danger to him/herself or to others. Some people are so disturbed that they just want to be left alone. He’s not standing in the street begging, is he? When it gets hotter, or colder, he may decide he can use some help and will accept it then. It is also against the law to publicly urinate or defecate. We could legally have him picked up, and then what? The United States has lots of agencies designed to help people such as this. But they have to be willing to take the help. There used to be a drop in center, run privately by donations, to help mentally disturbed people with no questions asked in Hackensack. They lost their lease–but they couldn’t have helped this man. Homeless shelters will take him for a month unless he is an addict or is constantly drunk. There are actually some small shelters for those people. He is probably a result of NJ choosing to close psychiatric hospitals and throw their residents onto the public for assistance. I well know that I am not offering any solution to his presence. In reality, with the law the way it is, there is no solution. He most likely was living on the streets in another community and was literally picked up and dumped here. Someone mentioned that the “Black Lives Matter” group could take a real Black and, with much constant effort and concern be able to help him understand that he needs help and find help for him. That would certainly be a more fruitful use of their time than blocking streets and traffic and expecting everyone else in the world “to see it their way.” But, this group seems to be interested in making noise and proving that their “rights” can do away with others rights as they –think, not know, as they assume–that they are “educated” “with it” etc. What was the quote about nothing is achieved if it is only sought “through sound and fury”? That does seem to be all that they are capable of doing. They are young, yes, and the young always know what is best for the world until they are forced to quit living “in the world as they want it” and accept “the world that really exists today”. “
Ridgewood NJ, the Ridgewood Police report that an East Ridgewood Avenue business contacted police on June 12, 2020 reporting a person was causing a disturbance within the business and harassing the store manager. Patrol units responded to the scene and located the described male person who had exited the business at the time of arrival. Patrol units located the described male party who was determined to be in need of medical attention. The male was transported to New Bridge Medical Center for medical treatment and the victim did not wish to sign a criminal complaint.
Ridgewood NJ, just in time for outdoor dining , for over a week a homeless man has been terrorizing Ridgewood’s Central Business district , eating out of the garbage cans during the day and also harassing women . Witnesses say he has been using the street as a bathroom and often sleeps with metal pipe .
Ridgewood NJ , a homeless guy has moved in along taxi station and train tracks at the Ridgewood train Station . In recent years the Ridgewood train station has become a haven for homeless urinating and defecating all over the place.
Ridgewood NJ, sources tell the Ridgewood blog the a homeless man has moved into the lobby at Village Hall creating a “Health hazard for people visiting town hall”. Reports of an extremely strong smell .
The Ridgewood blog has reported on many instances of homeless in Ridgewood in recent months.
The word seems to be that the police are concerned over law suits ,but many suspect an act of “virtue signaling “.
“Fake news. Professional actor placed by the anti-garage zealots trying their best to force the narrative. Nice try. We’re building and moving forward. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”
