Shading on Investigations and Major discipline compares each agency to the other 49 reporting agencies in Monmouth County only. Not a grade or a judgment.

IA totals are for 2025; major discipline counts span 2020-2025. 17 of these agencies are in civil service jurisdictions governed by the Title 4A discipline framework (see the full local jurisdiction roster). 20 of these agencies encrypt their radio communications (source: PoliceRadioEncryption.com).

Police pay and school-staff pay

Full comparison

A separate dataset from the discipline records above: NJ Treasury pension salaries as of March 31, 2026, for 2,000 active police officers and 10,269 active TPAF-enrolled school staff whose employers the pension system places in Monmouth County.

Median police officer

$126,990^{^[6]}

Pensionable base salary

Median school staff

$86,935

Pensionable base salary

Ratio

1.46x

$40,055 a year

School staff below the median officer

95%

Share of the county's TPAF members

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 Monmouth County comparison.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

Surplus military equipment transferred to MonmouthCounty agencies under the Defense Department's 1033 program, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency.

Total recorded value

$5,584,212^{^[4]}

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$4,602,729^{^[4]}

214 of 256 line items classed tactical

Recipient agencies

25^{^[4]}

Matched at high confidence

Recorded 1033 transfers to Monmouth County agencies, by recipient
Agency	Line items	Tactical value	Total value
Middletown Police Department	72	$1,232,485	$1,859,632
Howell Township Police Department	10	$1,120,353	$1,120,353
Marlboro Township Police Department	19	$645,777	$699,588
Manalapan Township Police Department	2	$240,641	$240,641
Sea Girt Police Department	2	$190,994	$190,994
Red Bank Police Department	5	$142,381	$143,441
Belmar Police Department	6	$128,111	$128,111
Deal Police Department	2	$113,833	$113,833
Shrewsbury Police Department	12	$105,328	$244,976
Union Beach Police Department	26	$88,272	$88,272
Holmdel Police Department	7	$81,554	$81,554
Keansburg Police Department	2	$72,574	$72,574
Allenhurst Police Department	8	$66,708	$66,708
Spring Lake Police Department	8	$66,388	$80,884
Little Silver Police Department	29	$61,841	$61,841
Aberdeen Township Police Department	6	$54,203	$54,203
Brielle Police Department	2	$51,475	$51,475
Wall Township Police Department	1	$50,458	$50,458
Fair Haven Police Department	1	$49,897	$49,897
Hazlet Township Police Department	21	$22,014	$22,014
Tinton Falls Police Department	8	$12,697	$48,670
Matawan Police Department	3	$4,746	$4,746
Monmouth County Sheriff's Department	2	$0	$11,723
Sea Bright Police Department	1	$0	$96,466
Spring Lake Heights Police Department	1	$0	$1,159

Transfer window for the county: 1994-2024, 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 Monmouth 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 17 records below appear here because the county the project recorded is Monmouth 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.

2021 (2 records)

Fatal Encounters records for Monmouth County, 2021
Name as recorded	Date	Location as recorded	Highest level of force as recorded
Mark D. Walker II	2021-11-06	Long Branch	Gunshot
James Manzo	2021-07-23	Asbury Park	Gunshot

2020 (2 records)

Fatal Encounters records for Monmouth County, 2020
Name as recorded	Date	Location as recorded	Highest level of force as recorded
Hasani Best	2020-08-21	Asbury Park	Gunshot
Edward Nortrup	2020-01-19	Matawan	Gunshot

2019 (2 records)

Fatal Encounters records for Monmouth County, 2019
Name as recorded	Date	Location as recorded	Highest level of force as recorded
Charles "Chuck" Tsakiris Jr.	2019-10-18	Farmingdale	Gunshot
James Manzo	2019-07-23	Asbury Park	Gunshot

2017 (2 records)

Fatal Encounters records for Monmouth County, 2017
Name as recorded	Date	Location as recorded	Highest level of force as recorded
Karen L. Borkowski	2017-09-22	Long Branch	Vehicle
Brian Charles William Fani	2017-04-23	Farmingdale	Vehicle

2015 (3 records)

Fatal Encounters records for Monmouth County, 2015
Name as recorded	Date	Location as recorded	Highest level of force as recorded
Timothy J. Harden	2015-09-05	Freehold Township	Asphyxiated/Restrained
Tamara Seidle	2015-06-16	Asbury Park	Gunshot
Scott Ryan McAllister	2015-05-27	Middletown	Gunshot

2008 (1 record)

Fatal Encounters records for Monmouth County, 2008
Name as recorded	Date	Location as recorded	Highest level of force as recorded
Russell T. Jackson	2008-06-09	Red Bank	Gunshot

2007 (1 record)

Fatal Encounters records for Monmouth County, 2007
Name as recorded	Date	Location as recorded	Highest level of force as recorded
Timothy Flanagan	2007-10-07	Freehold Township	Vehicle

2005 (3 records)

Fatal Encounters records for Monmouth County, 2005
Name as recorded	Date	Location as recorded	Highest level of force as recorded
Princess Young	2005-12-18	Eatontown	Vehicle
James Stillson	2005-05-08	Bradley Beach	Gunshot
Robert Podolsky	2005-03-24	Union Beach	Medical emergency

2003 (1 record)

Fatal Encounters records for Monmouth County, 2003
Name as recorded	Date	Location as recorded	Highest level of force as recorded
Timothy R. Wright	2003-08-15	Ocean Township	Gunshot

All 17 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 Monmouth County report in 2025?

Agencies in Monmouth County reported 664 internal affairs investigations in 2025, across 44 reporting agencies, according to New Jersey Attorney General data.

How many police major discipline records are there in Monmouth County?

Monmouth County agencies have 131 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, including 32 terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions.

Which Monmouth County police departments encrypt their radio?

20 agencies in Monmouth 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 Monmouth County police received?

25 agencies in Monmouth County matched recorded DoD 1033 program transfers worth $5,584,212 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 Monmouth County?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 17 records whose recorded county is Monmouth 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 Monmouth 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 Monmouth 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. ↩