Allegation category

False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal)

Violence / criminal tier

Grouped into that tier by this site, not by the reporting agency.

New Jersey law enforcement agencies recorded 131 allegations in this category between 2022 and 2025, the 29th-most most reported of the 31 categories and 0.2% 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

131

2022 to 2025

Agencies reporting

At least one in the period

Reported in 2025

47 in 2022

By year

counts

False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal) allegations reported, 2022 to 2025
Category	counts
2022	47
2024	42
2025	42

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Where it is reported most

Agencies reporting the most False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal) allegations
Agency	County	Allegations	Share of its own
Camden Police Department	Camden	9	0.1%
Hackensack Police Department	Bergen	9	2.0%
Paterson Police Department	Passaic	8	0.6%
Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office	Gloucester	6	6.9%
Guttenberg Police Department	Hudson	5	3.2%
Somerset County Prosecutor's Office	Somerset	5	8.8%
Gloucester City Police Department	Camden	4	2.0%
Morris Township Police Department	Morris	4	2.7%
Pennsauken Township Police Department	Camden	4	1.0%
Audubon Police Department	Camden	3	9.4%
Newark Police Department	Essex	3	0.1%
Nutley Police Department	Essex	3	0.8%
Passaic County Sheriff's Department	Passaic	3	1.0%
Bridgewater Township Police Department	Somerset	2	2.5%
Cape May County Prosecutor's Office	Cape May	2	9.5%
Deptford Township Police Department	Gloucester	2	1.9%
Essex County Sheriff's Office	Essex	2	0.3%
Ewing Township Police Department	Mercer	2	1.2%
Hawthorne Police Department	Passaic	2	3.6%
Highland Park Police Department	Middlesex	2	4.3%
Jersey City Police Department	Hudson	2	0.1%
Little Falls Police Department	Passaic	2	5.1%
New Jersey Institute Of Technology	Essex	2	2.2%
New Jersey State Police	State	2	0.0%
Pompton Lakes Borough Police Department	Passaic	2	1.4%

AnalysisThis site's calculation: each agency's count in this category divided by its own total allegations.

A high share means this category is unusually prominent in what that agency records.

Agencies where False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal) is the largest share of allegations
Agency	Share	This category	All allegations
Somerset County Prosecutor's Office	8.8%	5	57
Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office	6.9%	6	87
Hawthorne Police Department	3.6%	2	55
Guttenberg Police Department	3.2%	5	155
Ridgewood Village Police Department	3.2%	2	63
Morris Township Police Department	2.7%	4	148
Bridgewater Township Police Department	2.5%	2	81
Warren County Prosecutor's Office	2.3%	2	87
New Jersey Institute Of Technology	2.2%	2	92
Gloucester City Police Department	2.0%	4	197
Hackensack Police Department	2.0%	9	450
Deptford Township Police Department	1.9%	2	104
Somerset County Sheriff's Department	1.9%	1	52
Washington Township Police Department	1.9%	1	53
Garfield Police Department	1.9%	1	54

By county

False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal) allegations by county
County	Allegations
Camden	25
Passaic	17
Bergen	14
Essex	12
Gloucester	11
Hudson	11
Morris	9
Somerset	8
Union	4
Cape May	3
Mercer	2
Middlesex	2
Warren	2
Hunterdon	2
Sussex	2
Ocean	2
Burlington	1
Monmouth	1

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Where it makes up the largest share

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