Allegation category

Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency

Conduct / duty tier, as grouped by this site

New Jersey law enforcement agencies recorded 1,669 allegations in this category between 2022 and 2025, the 11th-most most reported of the 31 categories and 2.1% of all allegations statewide.

These are complaints, not findings. A complaint is recorded when somebody makes it, whether or not an investigation later sustained it, so nothing on this page establishes that any officer did anything.

Allegations

1,669

2022 to 2025

Agencies reporting

247

At least one in the period

Reported in 2025

453

335 in 2022

By year

Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency allegations reported, 2022 to 2025
2022	2023	2024	2025
335	453	428	453

Year-to-year movement reflects both complaint volume and reporting practice. The number of agencies filing a report changes each year, and a category can grow simply because more departments began classifying complaints into it.

Where it is reported most

Highest raw counts. Large departments appear here largely because they are large.

Agencies reporting the most Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency allegations
Agency	County	Allegations	Share of its own
Newark Police Department	Essex	273	4.9%
Department Of Corrections	State	190	2.2%
Jersey City Police Department	Hudson	116	5.1%
Rutgers University Police Department	State	65	15.8%
Camden County Corrections	Camden	63	7.9%
Hudson County Corrections	Hudson	52	13.3%
Essex County Corrections	Essex	41	17.1%
New Jersey State Police	State	33	0.8%
Trenton Police Department	Mercer	26	2.4%
Camden Police Department	Camden	24	0.4%
New Jersey Transit Police	State	24	2.7%
Cape May County Sheriff's Office	Cape May	22	16.4%
Union City Police Department	Hudson	22	5.9%
Gloucester County Sheriff's Department	Gloucester	21	25.9%
Hudson County Sheriff's Department	Hudson	18	7.6%
Morris County Prosecutor's Office	Morris	17	8.9%
Nutley Police Department	Essex	15	3.9%
Orange Police Department	Essex	15	3.0%
Clinton Township Police Department	Hunterdon	14	10.0%
Linden Police Department	Union	14	3.2%
Millville Police Department	Cumberland	14	3.9%
Union County Sheriff's Office	Union	14	6.6%
Jackson Township Police Department	Ocean	12	6.3%
Middlesex County Sheriff's Department	Middlesex	10	4.9%
Sayreville Police Department	Middlesex	10	7.7%

AnalysisThis site's calculation: each agency's count in this category divided by its own total allegations. Agencies reporting fewer than 50 allegations overall are excluded, because a handful of complaints produces a meaningless percentage.

A high share means this category is unusually prominent in what that agency records. It can reflect what happens there, or how that agency classifies complaints.

Agencies where Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency is the largest share of allegations
Agency	Share	This category	All allegations
Gloucester County Sheriff's Department	25.9%	21	81
West Long Branch Police Department	17.3%	9	52
Essex County Corrections	17.1%	41	240
Cape May County Sheriff's Office	16.4%	22	134
Rutgers University Police Department	15.8%	65	411
Hudson County Corrections	13.3%	52	391
New Milford Police Department	12.5%	7	56
New Jersey Division Criminal Justice - Trenton	11.5%	7	61
Clinton Township Police Department	10.0%	14	140
Atlantic County Sheriff's Office	9.1%	8	88
Morris County Prosecutor's Office	8.9%	17	191
Camden County Corrections	7.9%	63	797
Sayreville Police Department	7.7%	10	130
Hudson County Sheriff's Department	7.6%	18	238
Freehold Township Police Department	7.5%	4	53

By county

Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency allegations by county
County	Allegations
Essex	383
Hudson	240
Camden	127
Monmouth	74
Union	64
Morris	54
Middlesex	43
Ocean	38
Cape May	37
Mercer	34
Bergen	34
Gloucester	32
Cumberland	30
Atlantic	27
Burlington	26
Hunterdon	24
Passaic	22
Somerset	15
Sussex	13
Warren	7
Salem	7

By year

Where it is reported most

Where it makes up the largest share

By county

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