Allegation category

Insubordination/Disobeying An Order

Conduct / duty tier

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

New Jersey law enforcement agencies recorded 1,320 allegations in this category between 2022 and 2025, the 14th-most most reported of the 31 categories and 1.7% 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

1,320

2022 to 2025

Agencies reporting

204

At least one in the period

Reported in 2025

364

271 in 2022

By year

counts

Insubordination/Disobeying An Order allegations reported, 2022 to 2025
Category	counts
2022	271
2023	293
2024	392
2025	364

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Where it is reported most

Agencies reporting the most Insubordination/Disobeying An Order allegations
Agency	County	Allegations	Share of its own
Newark Police Department	Essex	521	9.4%
East Orange Police Department	Essex	89	4.7%
Irvington Police Department	Essex	51	4.3%
New Jersey State Police	State	40	0.9%
Camden Police Department	Camden	37	0.5%
Hackensack Police Department	Bergen	29	6.4%
Trenton Police Department	Mercer	22	2.1%
Camden County Sheriff's Department	Camden	20	6.0%
Atlantic City Police Department	Atlantic	19	2.0%
Essex County Corrections	Essex	19	7.9%
Elmwood Park Police Department	Bergen	18	10.2%
Essex County Sheriff's Office	Essex	16	2.1%
Elizabeth Police Department	Union	15	1.9%
Jackson Township Police Department	Ocean	15	7.9%
Paterson Police Department	Passaic	13	1.0%
South Orange Police Department	Essex	13	7.6%
Union County Sheriff's Office	Union	13	6.1%
Lakewood Police Department	Ocean	8	3.8%
Ocean County Corrections	Ocean	8	4.3%
Deptford Township Police Department	Gloucester	7	6.7%
Ewing Township Police Department	Mercer	7	4.1%
Hoboken Police Department	Hudson	7	1.0%
Maplewood Police Department	Essex	7	2.3%
Pennsauken Township Police Department	Camden	7	1.8%
Summit Police Department	Union	7	6.7%

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 Insubordination/Disobeying An Order is the largest share of allegations
Agency	Share	This category	All allegations
Elmwood Park Police Department	10.2%	18	177
Newark Police Department	9.4%	521	5,519
Essex County Corrections	7.9%	19	240
Jackson Township Police Department	7.9%	15	190
South Orange Police Department	7.6%	13	171
Hopewell Township Police Department	7.1%	4	56
Deptford Township Police Department	6.7%	7	104
Summit Police Department	6.7%	7	104
Hackensack Police Department	6.4%	29	450
Union County Sheriff's Office	6.1%	13	212
Camden County Sheriff's Department	6.0%	20	336
Middlesex Borough Police Department	5.7%	3	53
East Orange Police Department	4.7%	89	1,878
Burlington County Sheriff's Office	4.5%	3	66
Irvington Police Department	4.3%	51	1,180

By county

Insubordination/Disobeying An Order allegations by county
County	Allegations
Essex	741
Camden	79
Bergen	72
Union	55
Mercer	41
Ocean	41
Hudson	34
Atlantic	31
Middlesex	25
Passaic	24
Monmouth	23
Morris	21
Burlington	18
Somerset	16
Gloucester	15
Cape May	8
Cumberland	7
Warren	6
Sussex	5
Hunterdon	4
Salem	1

By year

Where it is reported most

Where it makes up the largest share

By county

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