Allegation category

Demeanor

Conduct / duty tier, as grouped by this site

New Jersey law enforcement agencies recorded 11,552 allegations in this category between 2021 and 2025, the second-most most reported of the 31 categories and 14.5% 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

11,552

2021 to 2025

Agencies reporting

514

At least one in the period

Reported in 2025

2,210

2,182 in 2021

By year

Demeanor allegations reported, 2021 to 2025
2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
2,182	2,517	2,311	2,332	2,210

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 Demeanor allegations
Agency	County	Allegations	Share of its own
Newark Police Department	Essex	799	14.5%
New Jersey State Police	State	686	15.8%
Youth Justice Commission	State	314	31.0%
Camden Police Department	Camden	286	4.2%
Jersey City Police Department	Hudson	271	11.8%
Irvington Police Department	Essex	211	17.9%
East Orange Police Department	Essex	209	11.1%
Bayonne Police Department	Hudson	204	45.5%
Department Of Corrections	State	168	1.9%
Elizabeth Police Department	Union	164	20.7%
New Jersey Transit Police	State	157	17.9%
Bergen County Sheriff's Department	Bergen	138	15.8%
Passaic Police Department	Passaic	137	33.3%
Union Township Police Department	Union	129	33.5%
Paterson Police Department	Passaic	112	8.5%
Atlantic City Police Department	Atlantic	104	11.1%
Bloomfield Police Department	Essex	101	19.1%
Hoboken Police Department	Hudson	100	14.6%
Woodbridge Township Police Department	Middlesex	93	24.0%
Union City Police Department	Hudson	91	24.2%
Clifton Police Department	Passaic	88	27.8%
Trenton Police Department	Mercer	84	7.9%
Essex County Sheriff's Office	Essex	82	10.7%
Gloucester Township Police Department	Camden	79	15.7%
Rahway Police Department	Union	74	18.3%

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 Demeanor is the largest share of allegations
Agency	Share	This category	All allegations
Raritan Township Police Department	58.8%	40	68
Seaside Heights Police Department	47.2%	34	72
Stafford Township Police Department	46.6%	27	58
Bayonne Police Department	45.5%	204	448
Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department	43.8%	32	73
Aberdeen Township Police Department	41.6%	32	77
Princeton Police Department	40.3%	31	77
Highlands Police Department	39.7%	25	63
Lodi Police Department	37.0%	47	127
Magnolia Police Department	35.6%	21	59
Fairfield Police Department	34.7%	52	150
Paulsboro Police Department	34.2%	25	73
Mount Laurel Township Police Department	34.2%	40	117
Ocean Township Police Department	34.0%	33	97
Stratford Borough Police Department	33.9%	20	59

By county

Demeanor allegations by county
County	Allegations
Essex	1,984
Hudson	1,067
Camden	862
Union	830
Bergen	790
Monmouth	669
Middlesex	632
Passaic	603
Morris	404
Burlington	358
Mercer	301
Somerset	280
Atlantic	278
Ocean	250
Gloucester	239
Cape May	141
Hunterdon	122
Cumberland	112
Sussex	101
Warren	54
Salem	28

By year

Where it is reported most

Where it makes up the largest share

By county

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