Internal affairs investigations in Bergen County, by year
counts · 5 reported years
Internal affairs investigations reported by Bergen County agencies, by year
Year
counts
2021
738
2022
970
2023
1,114
2024
702
2025
777
Where this county sits
AnalysisOrdinals compare the 21 counties on figures as reported. A county total also tracks population and agency count, so a high ordinal is scale as much as anything else. Map every county measure.
Bergen County's standing on each county measure, among the 21 counties
1 investigations in 2024, down from 2 in 2021 (-50%).
Year
investigations
2021
2
2022
2
2023
1
2024
1
not reported
0 (22nd percentile among agencies in Bergen County)
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Shading on Investigations and Major discipline compares each agency to the other 70 reporting agencies in Bergen County only. Not a grade or a judgment.
A separate dataset from the discipline records above: NJ Treasury pension salaries as of March 31, 2026, for 2,889 active police officers and 15,396 active TPAF-enrolled school staff whose employers the pension system places in Bergen County.
AnalysisThe ratio is computed by this site from as-reported pensionable salaries. It is a pay comparison, not a statement about either budget. The percentiles, the distribution shape, the tenure-adjusted figure and the department detail are on the full Bergen County comparison.
Military surplus equipment (1033 program)
Surplus military equipment transferred to BergenCounty agencies under the Defense Department's 1033 program, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency.
Transfer window for the county: 1996-2026, earliest to latest recorded ship date. Statewide totals, per-county comparisons, and top equipment categories are on the 1033 program overview.
Fatal encounters recorded in Bergen County
From the independent Fatal Encounters dataset, 2000-2021
Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen: no records after 2021 means the dataset ended, not that these deaths ended.[5] It records all deaths that occurred during a police encounter of any kind: vehicle pursuits, suicides in police presence, and medical emergencies are included alongside uses of force. The 32 records below appear here because the county the project recorded is Bergen County. A listing is not a misconduct finding, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records on this page. See the methodology. Each record links to its own page with the full as-reported details.
32 of 32 records plotted.
Fatal Encounters records the dataset places in Bergen County, 2000 to 2021
Fatal Encounters records the dataset places in Bergen County, 2000 to 2021: records by county
County
Records
Bergen
32
Individual records, with names, dates, cities, and the agencies the source names, are in the record list on this page.
All 32 of these records, and every New Jersey record in the dataset, are on the fatal encounters index.
Questions and answers
How many internal affairs investigations did Bergen County report in 2025?
Agencies in Bergen County reported 777 internal affairs investigations in 2025, across 62 reporting agencies, according to New Jersey Attorney General data.
How many police major discipline records are there in Bergen County?
Bergen County agencies have 119 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, including 10 terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions.
Which Bergen County police departments encrypt their radio?
5 agencies in Bergen County are listed as encrypting their radio communications by PoliceRadioEncryption.com. The full list is on the encrypted departments page.
How much military surplus equipment have Bergen County police received?
39 agencies in Bergen County matched recorded DoD 1033 program transfers worth $8,866,673 at original acquisition cost, per the Defense Logistics Agency's public file. These are transfers received over time, not a current inventory, and receiving surplus equipment is not misconduct.
How many deaths during police encounters are recorded in Bergen County?
The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 32 records whose recorded county is Bergen County, covering 2000 through 2021. Fatal Encounters is a crowdsourced journalism project, not a government source, and it documented deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind. It stopped collecting in December 2021, so the absence of later records means the dataset ended.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. County totals summed over Bergen County agency rows for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. Record counts from Bergen County rows, all years; row 1 is the header. ↩
[3]New Jersey county boundaries. New Jersey Office of Information Technology, Office of GIS (NJOGIS). NJ_Counties_3857 (FeatureServer layer 0), https://services2.arcgis.com/XVOqAjTOJ5P6ngMu/arcgis/rest/services/NJ_Counties_3857/FeatureServer/0. 2020 boundary delineation. Retrieved 2026-07-27. Boundaries are generalized for display. This data set is not a survey document and must not be used as such. The polygons do not represent legal boundaries.
[4]DoD 1033 Program transfers (LESO Public Information), New Jersey sheet. Defense Logistics Agency (U.S. Department of Defense). LESO Public Information: DISP_AllStatesAndTerritories, quarterly file as of 2026-06-30; recorded ship dates 1993-2026. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://www.dla.mil/Disposition-Services/Offers/Law-Enforcement/Public-Information/ ↩
[5]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Fatal Encounters national dataset (2000-2021); collection ended December 2021. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://fatalencounters.org/ ↩
[6]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset) and YourMoney Active Pension Members (TPAF subset, names removed). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Both snapshots as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. Figures are computed by this site from as-reported pensionable salaries; the row-by-row account of what entered each figure is published at /data/pay-comparison.json. ↩