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The administrative director of the New Jersey judiciary says a bill pending in the Legislature should scale back the changes planned for gun defendants.

Dr. Aakash Shah at Jersey Shore University Medical Center sensed that not enough has been done recently to curb violence before it produces consequences.

New Jersey Policy Perspective says local governments studied already spend 2.5 to over 5 times more on police budgets than health and human services.

"I know many co-workers and nursing staff, that are on the front lines, have been hit by patients, kicked, bitten," said Dr. Jenice Forde-Baker, assistant medical director for the emergency department at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden.

"Often times, people seem to focus only on the negatives when it comes to Plainfield, which is never done when it happens in Clark and Scotch Plains and Cranford," Mayor Adrian Mapp said.

The violence began Tuesday afternoon when police say a man randomly stabbed three people, killing one man and sending two others to the hospital.

In a newly-published study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 21 percent of female teens who date said they were the victim of violence - sexual, physical or both. Ten percent of teen-aged males cited the same violence.

Lately, it seems that any major event that happens - good or bad, is captured on film. Almost every phone comes with a camera, making it easy for anyone to film anything at any moment. But are there some things that shouldn't be put on video?

Assembly Republican Leader Jon Bramnick (R-Westfield) wants to hold a special session of the New Jersey Legislature this summer to deal with the state's growing violence epidemic.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Two men in bright yellow safety vests stroll through a rundown neighborhood where boarded-up houses and padlocked storefronts stand as silent witnesses to a wave of street violence that threatens to taint the reputation of Indiana's capital city.