Allegation category

Differential Treatment

Rights / integrity tier, as grouped by this site

New Jersey law enforcement agencies recorded 3,832 allegations in this category between 2021 and 2025, the fourth-most most reported of the 31 categories and 4.8% 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

3,832

2021 to 2025

Agencies reporting

419

At least one in the period

Reported in 2025

778

687 in 2021

By year

Differential Treatment allegations reported, 2021 to 2025
2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
687	805	777	785	778

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 Differential Treatment allegations
Agency	County	Allegations	Share of its own
New Jersey State Police	State	444	10.2%
Camden Police Department	Camden	144	2.1%
Department Of Corrections	State	79	0.9%
Pennsauken Township Police Department	Camden	67	16.8%
Newark Police Department	Essex	63	1.1%
New Jersey Transit Police	State	54	6.2%
Bloomfield Police Department	Essex	53	10.0%
Paterson Police Department	Passaic	48	3.6%
Trenton Police Department	Mercer	46	4.3%
Clifton Police Department	Passaic	45	14.2%
Gloucester Township Police Department	Camden	45	9.0%
Kearny Police Department	Hudson	45	17.1%
Galloway Township Police Department	Atlantic	42	29.8%
Cherry Hill Township Police Department	Camden	36	12.3%
Wayne Police Department	Passaic	36	15.1%
Hanover Township Police Department	Morris	34	38.2%
Atlantic City Police Department	Atlantic	33	3.5%
Hillsborough Township Police Department	Somerset	31	16.4%
Burlington City Police Department	Burlington	29	33.3%
Elizabeth Police Department	Union	29	3.7%
Jersey City Police Department	Hudson	29	1.3%
New Brunswick Police Department	Middlesex	28	10.3%
Voorhees Township Police Department	Camden	28	25.0%
Bridgeton Police Department	Cumberland	27	11.2%
Carteret Police Department	Middlesex	26	16.7%

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 Differential Treatment is the largest share of allegations
Agency	Share	This category	All allegations
Hanover Township Police Department	38.2%	34	89
West Windsor Township Police Department	35.8%	19	53
Burlington City Police Department	33.3%	29	87
Hopatcong Police Department	31.6%	24	76
Galloway Township Police Department	29.8%	42	141
Westwood Police Department	26.0%	13	50
Voorhees Township Police Department	25.0%	28	112
Florham Park Police Department	24.0%	12	50
Maple Shade Police Department	21.9%	14	64
Barnegat Township Police Department	21.2%	24	113
Middlesex Borough Police Department	18.9%	10	53
Manalapan Township Police Department	17.9%	12	67
Burlington Township Police Department	17.7%	17	96
Florence Township Police Department	17.4%	15	86
Bordentown Township Police Department	17.3%	9	52

By county

Differential Treatment allegations by county
County	Allegations
Camden	490
Essex	333
Monmouth	220
Bergen	212
Morris	205
Burlington	204
Passaic	198
Middlesex	191
Union	181
Hudson	170
Mercer	137
Atlantic	135
Ocean	129
Gloucester	103
Somerset	98
Warren	49
Sussex	48
Cumberland	43
Hunterdon	35
Salem	32
Cape May	32

By year

Where it is reported most

Where it makes up the largest share

By county

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