Allegation category

Other Departmental Rule Violation

Administrative tier, as grouped by this site

New Jersey law enforcement agencies recorded 27,280 allegations in this category between 2021 and 2025, the most most reported of the 31 categories and 34.1% 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

27,280

2021 to 2025

Agencies reporting

526

At least one in the period

Reported in 2025

5,070

8,145 in 2021

By year

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported, 2021 to 2025
2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
8,145	4,607	4,921	4,537	5,070

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 Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations
Agency	County	Allegations	Share of its own
New Jersey State Police	State	2,293	52.7%
Camden Police Department	Camden	2,157	31.7%
Department Of Corrections	State	1,868	21.6%
East Orange Police Department	Essex	1,174	62.5%
Newark Police Department	Essex	1,052	19.1%
Jersey City Police Department	Hudson	691	30.1%
Irvington Police Department	Essex	671	56.9%
Atlantic City Police Department	Atlantic	611	65.1%
Bergen County Sheriff's Department	Bergen	505	57.9%
Trenton Police Department	Mercer	388	36.3%
Paterson Police Department	Passaic	371	28.2%
Hoboken Police Department	Hudson	338	49.3%
New Jersey Transit Police	State	320	36.4%
Youth Justice Commission	State	300	29.6%
Elizabeth Police Department	Union	269	33.9%
Bloomfield Police Department	Essex	223	42.2%
West Orange Police Department	Essex	207	64.7%
Hackensack Police Department	Bergen	204	45.3%
Essex County Sheriff's Office	Essex	195	25.4%
Millville Police Department	Cumberland	186	51.5%
Rutgers University Police Department	State	176	42.8%
Rahway Police Department	Union	173	42.8%
Maplewood Police Department	Essex	172	57.1%
Gloucester Township Police Department	Camden	166	33.1%
Vineland Police Department	Cumberland	157	51.6%

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 Other Departmental Rule Violation is the largest share of allegations
Agency	Share	This category	All allegations
Morris County Sheriff's Department	78.0%	46	59
Morris County Prosecutor's Office	77.5%	148	191
New Jersey Department Of Human Services	74.8%	113	151
Atlantic City Police Department	65.1%	611	938
West Orange Police Department	64.7%	207	320
Somerset County Sheriff's Department	63.5%	33	52
Ocean County Corrections	63.1%	118	187
East Orange Police Department	62.5%	1,174	1,878
Plainfield Police Department	62.4%	83	133
Toms River Township	61.5%	40	65
Berkeley Township Police Department	60.7%	68	112
Red Bank Police Department	59.0%	36	61
Bergen County Sheriff's Department	57.9%	505	872
Pompton Lakes Borough Police Department	57.6%	83	144
Teaneck Police Department	57.3%	71	124

By county

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations by county
County	Allegations
Essex	4,675
Camden	3,242
Hudson	1,955
Bergen	1,594
Union	1,292
Monmouth	1,101
Middlesex	1,015
Passaic	975
Atlantic	913
Morris	835
Mercer	730
Ocean	658
Burlington	651
Cumberland	589
Somerset	576
Gloucester	373
Cape May	299
Sussex	183
Hunterdon	183
Warren	129
Salem	68

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Where it is reported most

Where it makes up the largest share

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