Allegation category

Neglect of Duty

Conduct / duty tier

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

New Jersey law enforcement agencies recorded 2,908 allegations in this category between 2022 and 2025, the 7th-most most reported of the 31 categories and 3.6% 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

2,908

2022 to 2025

Agencies reporting

297

At least one in the period

Reported in 2025

649

684 in 2022

By year

counts

Neglect of Duty allegations reported, 2022 to 2025
Category	counts
2022	684
2023	882
2024	693
2025	649

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Where it is reported most

Agencies reporting the most Neglect of Duty allegations
Agency	County	Allegations	Share of its own
Newark Police Department	Essex	899	16.3%
Jersey City Police Department	Hudson	125	5.4%
Department Of Corrections	State	92	1.1%
Camden County Corrections	Camden	73	9.2%
Hoboken Police Department	Hudson	70	10.2%
Trenton Police Department	Mercer	63	5.9%
Bloomfield Police Department	Essex	51	9.6%
Hudson County Corrections	Hudson	47	12.0%
East Orange Police Department	Essex	46	2.4%
Essex County Sheriff's Office	Essex	30	3.9%
Cape May County Sheriff's Office	Cape May	29	21.6%
Gloucester City Police Department	Camden	26	13.2%
Irvington Police Department	Essex	25	2.1%
Elizabeth Police Department	Union	24	3.0%
North Bergen Police Department	Hudson	24	8.1%
Nutley Police Department	Essex	24	6.2%
Pennsauken Township Police Department	Camden	24	6.0%
Middlesex County Sheriff's Department	Middlesex	23	11.2%
Union County Sheriff's Office	Union	23	10.8%
Atlantic City Police Department	Atlantic	22	2.3%
Bayonne Police Department	Hudson	21	4.7%
Linden Police Department	Union	20	4.6%
Paterson Police Department	Passaic	20	1.5%
Carteret Police Department	Middlesex	18	11.5%
Clifton Police Department	Passaic	18	5.7%

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 Neglect of Duty is the largest share of allegations
Agency	Share	This category	All allegations
Totowa Borough Police Department	27.3%	18	66
Cape May County Sheriff's Office	21.6%	29	134
West Caldwell Police Department	20.6%	14	68
Ventnor Police Department	17.2%	10	58
Newark Police Department	16.3%	899	5,519
Gloucester City Police Department	13.2%	26	197
Readington Police Department	12.5%	7	56
Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office	12.1%	8	66
Hudson County Corrections	12.0%	47	391
Carteret Police Department	11.5%	18	156
Middlesex County Sheriff's Department	11.2%	23	206
Union County Sheriff's Office	10.8%	23	212
Sayreville Police Department	10.8%	14	130
East Brunswick Township Police Department	10.7%	6	56
Wall Township Police Department	10.4%	12	115

By county

Neglect of Duty allegations by county
County	Allegations
Essex	1,145
Hudson	352
Camden	211
Middlesex	143
Union	130
Bergen	102
Passaic	101
Mercer	85
Monmouth	83
Atlantic	68
Ocean	55
Morris	55
Cape May	47
Burlington	44
Gloucester	43
Hunterdon	31
Somerset	22
Sussex	21
Warren	20
Cumberland	19
Salem	3

By year

Where it is reported most

Where it makes up the largest share

By county

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