Public records, made legible

Since 2020, New Jersey has published detailed data on police discipline and internal affairs. The records are public, but the official releases are spreadsheets and dashboards that few people can comfortably read. Police Transparency NJ turns those releases into pages: one for every department, every county, and every officer named in the major discipline record.

Much of New Jersey no longer has a standing local press corps. Records like these used to get read, checked, and written about by beat reporters. This project does a piece of that work at scale, from primary sources, with the receipts attached: every factual claim on every page carries a citation to the exact row of the official file it came from.

The site adds context the raw files lack, like peer benchmarks and department report cards. Where it does, that interpretation is visibly labeled as analysis, its method is published on the methodology page, and the underlying records stay one click away. The records do the arguing.

Police Transparency NJ is run as a neutral project identity rather than a personal byline. Questions and correction requests go to [email protected] or through the corrections page.