Felix DeJesus' family is holding onto hopes of finding him alive two years after police in Paterson, New Jersey dropped him off in a city park, inebriated and wearing a T-shirt as temperatures dropped below freezing.

“We keep going around the spots, asking people questions, but nothing has come up yet,” his brother Giovanni DeJesus said. But maintaining that hope has been a struggle amid a lack of signs of DeJesus' possible whereabouts — or whether he's still alive.

DeJesus has been missing since the night of Feb. 2, 2022. In the time since, the state attorney general’s office has taken over Paterson’s troubled police department after years of investigations into police corruption, criminality and excessive use of force. Despite the new leadership and promised reforms, DeJesus' family members say they have trouble trusting that the search for him continues in earnest or that police will ever be able to provide them with answers.

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