Allegation category

Use Of Force Policy Violation

Rights / integrity tier, as grouped by this site

New Jersey law enforcement agencies recorded 2,404 allegations in this category between 2022 and 2025, the 9th-most most reported of the 31 categories and 3.0% 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

2,404

2022 to 2025

Agencies reporting

At least one in the period

Reported in 2025

1,918

63 in 2022

By year

Use Of Force Policy Violation allegations reported, 2022 to 2025
2022	2023	2024	2025
63	195	228	1,918

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 Use Of Force Policy Violation allegations
Agency	County	Allegations	Share of its own
Department Of Corrections	State	2,184	25.3%
Bergen County Sheriff's Department	Bergen	40	4.6%
Camden Police Department	Camden	34	0.5%
Essex County Corrections	Essex	10	4.2%
Atlantic City Police Department	Atlantic	9	1.0%
Park Police	State	7	15.9%
Youth Justice Commission	State	6	0.6%
Hillside Police Department	Union	5	5.3%
Lacey Township Police Department	Ocean	5	10.9%
Millburn Police Department	Essex	5	3.1%
North Bergen Police Department	Hudson	5	1.7%
Chesilhurst Police Department	Camden	4	33.3%
Essex County Sheriff's Office	Essex	4	0.5%
Keyport Police Department	Monmouth	4	8.0%
Newton Police Department	Sussex	4	3.3%
Roselle Police Department	Union	4	1.9%
Burlington County Corrections	Burlington	3	4.1%
East Orange Police Department	Essex	3	0.2%
Jersey City Police Department	Hudson	3	0.1%
Montclair Police Department	Essex	3	1.5%
Neptune Township Police Department	Monmouth	3	1.5%
New Brunswick Police Department	Middlesex	3	1.1%
Parsippany-Troy Hills Police Department	Morris	3	1.4%
Passaic County Sheriff's Department	Passaic	3	1.0%
Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office	Bergen	2	4.2%

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 Use Of Force Policy Violation is the largest share of allegations
Agency	Share	This category	All allegations
Department Of Corrections	25.3%	2,184	8,649
Keyport Police Department	8.0%	4	50
Hillside Police Department	5.3%	5	94
Bergen County Sheriff's Department	4.6%	40	872
Essex County Corrections	4.2%	10	240
Burlington County Corrections	4.1%	3	73
Newton Police Department	3.3%	4	120
West Deptford Township Police Department	3.3%	2	60
Millburn Police Department	3.1%	5	162
Toms River Township	3.1%	2	65
Roselle Police Department	1.9%	4	209
West Windsor Township Police Department	1.9%	1	53
North Bergen Police Department	1.7%	5	296
Maple Shade Police Department	1.6%	1	64
Haddon Township Police Department	1.5%	2	131

By county

Use Of Force Policy Violation allegations by county
County	Allegations
Bergen	44
Camden	44
Essex	31
Atlantic	11
Hudson	11
Union	10
Monmouth	9
Ocean	8
Passaic	6
Burlington	5
Cumberland	5
Gloucester	5
Sussex	4
Middlesex	4
Morris	4
Somerset	2
Hunterdon	1
Mercer	1

By year

Where it is reported most

Where it makes up the largest share

By county

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