Allegation category

Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise

Conduct / duty tier

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

New Jersey law enforcement agencies recorded 383 allegations in this category between 2022 and 2025, the 24th-most most reported of the 31 categories and 0.5% 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

383

2022 to 2025

Agencies reporting

149

At least one in the period

Reported in 2025

118 in 2022

By year

counts

Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise allegations reported, 2022 to 2025
Category	counts
2022	118
2023	115
2024	80
2025	70

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Where it is reported most

Agencies reporting the most Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise allegations
Agency	County	Allegations	Share of its own
New Jersey State Police	State	21	0.5%
Linden Police Department	Union	12	2.8%
Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department	Morris	11	5.3%
Totowa Borough Police Department	Passaic	10	15.2%
Youth Justice Commission	State	10	1.0%
Nutley Police Department	Essex	9	2.3%
Department Of Corrections	State	8	0.1%
Irvington Police Department	Essex	8	0.7%
Union County Sheriff's Office	Union	8	3.8%
West New York Police Department	Hudson	8	3.3%
Newton Police Department	Sussex	7	5.8%
Franklin Township Police Department	Somerset	6	2.3%
Pennsauken Township Police Department	Camden	6	1.5%
Vineland Police Department	Cumberland	6	2.0%
Clinton Township Police Department	Hunterdon	5	3.6%
Essex County Sheriff's Office	Essex	5	0.7%
Maplewood Police Department	Essex	5	1.7%
North Wildwood City Police Department	Cape May	5	6.3%
Rahway Police Department	Union	5	1.2%
Randolph Township Police Department	Morris	5	6.3%
Springfield Township Police Department	Union	5	12.5%
Trenton Police Department	Mercer	5	0.5%
Bayonne Police Department	Hudson	4	0.9%
Burlington County Sheriff's Office	Burlington	4	6.1%
Hudson County Sheriff's Department	Hudson	4	1.7%

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 Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise is the largest share of allegations
Agency	Share	This category	All allegations
Totowa Borough Police Department	15.2%	10	66
North Wildwood City Police Department	6.3%	5	79
Randolph Township Police Department	6.3%	5	80
Burlington County Sheriff's Office	6.1%	4	66
Newton Police Department	5.8%	7	120
Washington Township Police Department	5.7%	3	53
Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department	5.3%	11	207
Bergenfield Police Department	5.0%	3	60
Burlington County Corrections	4.1%	3	73
Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Department	4.1%	3	73
Harrison Police Department	3.8%	3	79
Union County Sheriff's Office	3.8%	8	212
Wallington Police Department	3.8%	2	53
Cumberland County Prosecutor's Office	3.6%	3	83
Clinton Township Police Department	3.6%	5	140

By county

Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise allegations by county
County	Allegations
Union	44
Essex	44
Hudson	31
Morris	27
Camden	24
Bergen	21
Passaic	20
Burlington	16
Sussex	15
Monmouth	15
Somerset	13
Cumberland	12
Mercer	12
Middlesex	12
Hunterdon	8
Ocean	8
Gloucester	8
Cape May	5
Atlantic	3
Salem	1
Warren	1

By year

Where it is reported most

Where it makes up the largest share

By county

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