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Bayonne Police Department

Reported as: Bayonne PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Bayonne on the New Jersey Civil Service Commission roster.

Read how the process works or the Title 4A glossary. Browse NJCSNavigator’s civil service jurisdiction directory for the full local-jurisdiction roster.

Reflects the NJCSC Appendix A roster as of 2026-07-04. Context only, not legal advice.

In brief

Bayonne Police Department named 49 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and logged 68 investigations, a rate of 138.8 per 100 officers. The Hudson County median is 138.9, effectively level, and the statewide median for municipal police is 125.9. Where a department runs above the median, the figure supports two readings: more misconduct, or more complaints captured on the record. Of the 68 investigations detailed for 2025, 15 reported sustained complaints. Demeanor was the leading allegation category, ahead of Other Departmental Rule Violation and Neglect of Duty.

Ten major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023 and 2024. Bayonne received a C on the report card, at the 60th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

Written by this site strictly from the figures on this page; every number is cited below.

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

49[1]

Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing

IA investigations, 2025

68[1]

Incidents, 2025

56[1]

Major discipline records

10

All years, 2020-2025

Staffing

As reported by the department to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) census, full-time personnel as of October 31 each year. This is a different measurement from the "officers named in IA cases" figure above; see the methodology.

Sworn officers, 2025

197[8]

66 years reported

197 sworn officers in 2025, up from 152 in 1960 (+30%).
Yearsworn officers
1960152
1961163
1962157
1963156
1964156
1965169
1966173
1967176
1968178
1969192
1970193
1971194
1972188
1973198
1974204
1975198
1976195
1977181
1978189
1979197
1980189
1981177
1982184
1983191
1984181
1985188
1986191
1987185
1988178
1989173
1990177
1991163
1992174
1993171
1994178
1995180
1996191
1997196
1998202
1999228
2000237
2001235
2002243
2003233
2004230
2005230
2006227
2007225
2008212
2009203
2010195
2011182
2012190
2013175
2014175
2015180
2016182
2017177
2018189
2019184
2020184
2021178
2022187
2023193
2024188
2025197

Civilian employees, 2025

38[9]

0.19 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

19[10]

9.6% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.62[11]

Municipal departments only

AnalysisComputed by this site from LEE reported totals; not an official statistic.

How Bayonne Police Department's sworn staffing compares with its real peer group (same agency type, similar size band), not an assumed bell curve.

Peer group: Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=92)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 60+ officers
RangeAgencies
0–20084
200–4005
400–6001
600–8001
800–10000
1000–12001

Bayonne Police Department: 197 sworn officers: 91st percentile among Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=92).

The match between this FBI record and this department is this site's inference, not a certified mapping. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Officer pay and school-staff pay

County comparison

A separate dataset from the discipline records above: NJ Treasury pension salaries as of March 31, 2026, for the 192 active Bayonne Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$123,368[3]

192 active officers

Median local school staff

$77,463

BAYONNE BOARD OF ED, 1,071 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.59x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.32x

Median officer to Hudson County school-staff median

AnalysisEvery ratio here is computed by this site from as-reported pensionable salaries. The local school figure comes from the pension employer "BAYONNE BOARD OF ED", linked to this municipality only because exactly one district in the county resolves to it. A pay comparison is not a statement about either budget. The full county comparison, including the distribution and the tenure-adjusted figure, is on the Hudson County pay page.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

Over roughly two decades, from 1998 to 2019, Bayonne Police Department received 24 recorded line items of federal surplus military equipment. The recorded value comes to $75,535 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost, not a current or market figure. All of it falls in categories this site classes as tactical, with Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled accounting for $63,894 and Guns, through 30mm for $11,641. These records document transfers received over time and not a current inventory: non-controlled items may be disposed of after one year. Receiving surplus equipment is not misconduct, and this federal data is separate in origin from the Attorney General discipline records shown elsewhere on this page. This site's Militarization Index, an analysis rather than an official measure, puts Bayonne PD at $383 per officer, in the 62nd percentile among 93 agencies in the 60+ officers band, where a higher index signals heavier program use rather than a worse department.

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

Total recorded value

$75,535[2]

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$75,535[2]

24 of 24 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

1998-2019[2]

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 64 items (Each). Units of issue differ (an item and a kit are not the same thing), so no single combined item count exists.

Top categories by recorded value

Top 1033 equipment categories received by Bayonne Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled63,894 tactical
Guns, through 30mm11,641 tactical

Categories received: tactical vs mundane

Each category is classed tactical or mundane by this site's published classification of its Federal Supply Class. Much of what moves through the program is mundane surplus (tools, office and medical equipment); the tactical rows are what the Militarization Index below measures.

1033 equipment categories received by Bayonne Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
CategoryClassLine itemsQuantity receivedRecorded value (original cost)
Trucks and truck tractors, wheeledMilitary trucks · FSC 2320Tactical11 items (Each)$63,894
Guns, through 30mmWeapons · FSC 1005Tactical2363 items (Each)$11,641

Every recorded transfer

Equipment class

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1033 program transfers recorded for Bayonne Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
ItemCategoryQtyRecorded valueOriginal DoD cost
TRUCK,UTILITYNSN 2320-01-107-7153Shipped 2019-01-30 · DEMIL CTrucks and truck tractors, wheeled Tactical1 Each$63,894
MAGAZINE,CARTRIDGENSN 1005-01-561-7200Shipped 2018-10-23 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical41 Each$663
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-01-08 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2002-12-10 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2002-12-10 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2002-12-10 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2002-12-10 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2002-12-10 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2002-12-10 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 1998-07-10 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 1998-07-10 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 1998-07-10 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 1998-07-10 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499

24 of 24 recorded transfers shown. Quantities are per unit of issue and are never summed across units. DEMIL code A: non-controlled property, may be disposed of after one year (so a listed item is not necessarily still held). Codes such as C, D, F, and Q: controlled property with federal return or demilitarization requirements.

AnalysisMilitarization Index: computed by this site, not an official statistic.

Bayonne Police Department received $383 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 62nd percentile among municipal police agencies of similar size (60+ officers, n=93).

Peer group: Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93)

Tactical 1033 value per sworn officer: Municipal police, 60+ officers
RangeAgencies
0–500075
5000–100009
10000–150006
15000–200002

Bayonne Police Department: 383 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 62nd percentile among Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93).

A higher index is not automatically worse. It divides cumulative transfers over the covered window by current staffing, so it measures how intensively an agency has participated in the program, not what it holds today. See the methodology.

Statewide totals, per-county rollups, and the top categories across all of New Jersey are on the 1033 program overview.

Internal affairs investigations by year

counts

Internal affairs investigations reported by Bayonne Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202195
202283
2023114
202490
202568

Incidents

56 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Bayonne Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202161
202246
202370
202468
202556

Officers on IA rows

67 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Bayonne Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202489
202567
Analysis

Computed by this site from the two figures the agency reports each year. Not a misconduct rate: it describes how an agency resolved what it investigated.

share of total · 5 reported years

Share of internal affairs investigations sustained by Bayonne Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202232.53
202324.561
202428.889
202522.059

Statewide, 19.5 percent of investigations reported a sustained complaint in 2025. How dispositions break down statewide.

Complaint mix, 2025

Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency. Officer-level rows list 67 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Bayonne Police Department, 2025
Demeanor38
Other Departmental Rule Violation19
Neglect of Duty3
Improper Search2
Excessive Force2
Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise1
False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal)1
Other Criminal Violation1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Demeanor · Other Departmental Rule Violation · Neglect of Duty · Improper Search · Excessive Force · Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise · False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal) · Other Criminal Violation

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Bayonne Police Department, 2025
Exonerated23
Sustained16
Unfounded12
not provided9
Administratively Closed5
Not Sustained3

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

AnalysisRanked and folded by this site. The counts inside each panel are as reported.

Demeanor

204 of 450

Demeanor allegations reported by Bayonne Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202143
202239
202349
202435
202538

Other Departmental Rule Violation

115 of 450

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Bayonne Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202136
202214
202318
202428
202519

Excessive Force

26 of 450

Excessive Force allegations reported by Bayonne Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20219
20220
20234
202411
20252

Neglect of Duty

21 of 450

Neglect of Duty allegations reported by Bayonne Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20226
202310
20242
20253

Other (19 categories)

84 of 450

Other (19 categories) allegations reported by Bayonne Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20217
202224
202333
202414
20256

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Bayonne Police Department138.8
County median, municipal police (13)138.9
NJ median, municipal police (445)125.9

Investigations per 100 officers named in that year's IA investigations (the Attorney General's own "Number of Officers" field, a distinct-officer count drawn from the IA case data itself, not a department headcount). A higher number is ambiguous on its own: it can reflect more misconduct, or a stronger internal reporting culture. Medians are computed within the same agency type only.

AnalysisA second, independent rate using FBI-reported staffing instead.

68 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 197 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[23] = 34.5 per 100 FBI-reported sworn officers. This is a genuinely different denominator from the rate above, not a correction of it; the two should not be added or averaged together. See the methodology for why these two officer counts diverge.

Report card

Grade C: Middle fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
60th percentile of 93 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Bayonne Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 60+ officers
RangeAgencies
0–5066
50–10025
100–1501
150–2001

Bayonne Police Department: 30.864 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 46th percentile among Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93).

How the grade is built

Three components, each a percentile within the peer group. The combined standing is their weighted mean, re-ranked among peers; the grade is the fifth of the peer group it lands in.

IA volumeweight 40%

67th percentileof 93 peers

139.6 investigations per 100 officers (multi-year mean)

Internal affairs investigations per 100 reported officers, averaged over the years where the agency reported both figures.

Discipline severityweight 40%

46th percentileof 93 peers

30.9 severity-weighted discipline per 100 officers, 2020-2025

Major discipline records weighted by sanction (termination 4, demotion 3, suspension 2, other 1) per 100 officers.

Allegation severityweight 20%

49th percentileof 93 peers

1.99 mean severity tier (1 low - 4 critical)

Mean severity tier of IA allegations across 2021-2025, using the published tier map; unknown values excluded.

What this grade can and can't tell you

  • The underlying data is self-reported by agencies, one yearly snapshot at a time.
  • Allegations are not findings; many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
  • There is no arrest or call-volume denominator in this data, so nothing here is a per-capita misconduct rate. A genuinely independent staffing-based rate, sourced from the FBI rather than this grade's own data, appears above when available. It is a different measurement, not a more accurate version of the grade.
  • A higher internal affairs volume is ambiguous: it can indicate more misconduct, or a more robust oversight and reporting culture. The grade weighs it anyway, because volume is what the record offers; that choice is published, not hidden.
  • The grade is one lens. The records it reads are on this page above.

Where this agency ranks

AnalysisRankings compare agencies of the same type only, on figures as reported. A high rank is reported volume, not a verdict.[24] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025138.8168th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20256825th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20255622nd of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20251023rd of 282 municipal police
Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30$383119th of 163 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year2.62175th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.32x241st of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present5828th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20220
20239
20241
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Bayonne Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2024Jason ArnonePolice OfficerSuspended 10 days[25]
2023Eduardo Mena-RamosOfficerSeparated while IA pending[26]
2023Richard KillmerSergeantSuspended 180 days[27]
2023Eduardo Mena-RamosOfficerSuspended 15 days[28]
2023Jeffrey VelozOfficerSuspended 41 daysSeparated while IA pending[29]
2023Karim EstephanousProb. OfficerSeparated while IA pending[30]
2023Christopher DeNobleOfficerSeparated while IA pending[31]
2023Christopher DeNobleOfficerSeparated while IA pending[32]
2023Christopher DeNobleOfficerSeparated while IA pending[33]
2023Christopher DeNobleOfficerSeparated while IA pending[34]

Every name links to the officer's record page with the agency's full synopsis and citation.

Fatal encounters recorded involving this agency

From the independent Fatal Encounters dataset, 2000-2021

In brief (written by this site from the records below)

Four records in the Fatal Encounters dataset name Bayonne Police Department, in years from 2012 through 2021. The as-recorded level of force is listed as Gunshot in two of them, and as Burned/Smoke inhalation and Medical emergency in one record each. Fatal Encounters was an independent, crowdsourced journalism project, not a government source, and it documented deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind, including medical emergencies and pursuits. A record is not a finding of fault against Bayonne Police Department or any officer. Collection ended in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen there.

Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.[4] 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. A record appears here because Bayonne Police Departmentis named in the record's as-reported agency field. A listing is not a misconduct finding, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records above. See the methodology. Each record links to its own page with the full as-reported details.

  • Name withheld by police

    July 13, 2021 · Bayonne · Highest level of force as recorded: Burned/Smoke inhalation

  • Lee Waskiewicz

    June 7, 2021 · Bayonne · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

  • Peter Lee Williams

    June 10, 2014 · Bayonne · Highest level of force as recorded: Medical emergency

  • Mariano Vargas

    March 21, 2012 · Bayonne · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

Public records requests

Records requests about this department filed through OPRAmachine, an independent site that files Open Public Records Act requests in public and publishes the responses.[5] This is a third-party, user-generated source, separate in origin from the Attorney General records elsewhere on this page.

Current as of 12 July 2026. These figures are a point-in-time snapshot and do not update: requests filed to OPRAmachine after that date do not appear here. For live activity, see this body on OPRAmachine.

This department has no separate listing on OPRAmachine. Records requests for it are handled through Bayonne City, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 58 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 191 filed to Bayonne City are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

58[5]

Identified by subject line, of 249 filed to Bayonne City

Most recent request

May 2026[5]

First recorded January 2020

Awaiting a response

31[5]

Requests with no response recorded yet

What happened to those requests

Statuses as recorded on OPRAmachine. They are set by the person who filed the request when they classify what came back, not by the agency and not by any court. They describe the fate of a records request and nothing else.

Recorded outcomes of police-related records requests to Bayonne City (requests)
Awaiting agency response31
Requester reported success19
Request refused3
Requester reported partial success2
Agency said records not held2
Response sent by post1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Bayonne City, by date and recorded status. Each was written by a member of the public. A request is a question somebody asked. It is not a finding, not an allegation this site makes, and not evidence that anything happened.

  1. 2026-05-23Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-12-30Requester reported success
  3. 2025-10-15Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-09-15Awaiting agency response
  5. 2025-08-14Awaiting agency response
  6. 2025-05-31Awaiting agency response
  7. 2025-05-30Awaiting agency response
  8. 2025-04-02Awaiting agency response
  9. 2025-03-30Requester reported success
  10. 2025-01-13Awaiting agency response
  11. 2024-11-27Awaiting agency response
  12. 2024-11-21Awaiting agency response
Show what each request asked for, as the requester wrote it

These titles are quoted from OPRAmachine exactly as the requester typed them. They are the requester's words, not this site's, and some describe what the requester believed or suspected. Nothing here has been established as fact.

File your own records request

Anyone can request records from this municipality under the Open Public Records Act. This link opens a request on OPRAmachine, pre-filled with a neutral starting point you can edit or replace before you send it. The request, and any response, will be published there.

File an OPRA request about this department

See every request filed to Bayonne City on OPRAmachine.

What this section can and can't tell you

  • A request is not a finding. Every entry records what a member of the public asked for. None of it establishes that an agency did anything, and none of it is an allegation this site is making.
  • Statuses come from the requester, not the agency. On OPRAmachine the person who filed the request classifies the response they got, so “successful” means they said they got what they asked for. It is not the agency's word and not an adjudication.
  • Request volume is not a measure of misconduct. A long list usually reflects public interest, local journalism, or one determined requester. A short list usually means few people have asked.
  • This covers OPRAmachine only. Most OPRA requests in New Jersey are filed directly with agencies and never appear here, so this is a floor, not a total.
  • It is frozen at 12 July 2026. The figures come from a snapshot of OPRAmachine taken on that date and nothing refreshes them, so anything filed since is missing. Treat every number here as a lower bound that is only getting further out of date.
  • The count is an undercount, by design. Requests to Bayonne City are sorted by subject line, because that custodian also handles permits, property, and code enforcement. A request that is genuinely about the police but carries a vague subject line, and many do read only “OPRA Request,” is not counted here. The sorting is this site's own reading of the request titles, not a fact from the source, and it is deliberately cautious: it would rather miss a police request than show you somebody's building permit.

The match between this OPRAmachine body and this department is this site's inference, not a certified mapping. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Bayonne Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Bayonne Police Department named 49 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and logged 68 investigations, a rate of 138.8 per 100 officers. The Hudson County median is 138.9, effectively level, and the statewide median for municipal police is 125.9. Where a department runs above the median, the figure supports two readings: more misconduct, or more complaints captured on the record. Of the 68 investigations detailed for 2025, 15 reported sustained complaints. Demeanor was the leading allegation category, ahead of Other Departmental Rule Violation and Neglect of Duty. Ten major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023 and 2024. Bayonne received a C on the report card, at the 60th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did Bayonne Police Department report in 2025?

Bayonne Police Department reported 68 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 49 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Bayonne Police Department have?

Bayonne Police Department has 10 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 0 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does Bayonne Police Department have?

Bayonne Police Department reported 197 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 9.6% of them female. That is 2.62 sworn officers per 1,000 residents. This is a different measurement from the "officers named in IA cases" figure elsewhere on this page, which counts distinct officers in that year's internal affairs investigations, not total staffing.

What military surplus equipment has Bayonne Police Department received through the 1033 program?

Bayonne Police Department received 24 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program between 1998 and 2019, with a total recorded value of $75,535 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled. Transfers are as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency as of 2026-06-30; equipment acquired through the program is not necessarily still held.

What is the total recorded value of the 1033 equipment Bayonne Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for Bayonne Police Department under the 1033 program totals $75,535 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $75,535 is in categories this site classes as tactical (24 of 24 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.

How many deaths during police encounters are recorded for Bayonne Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 4 records naming Bayonne Police Department, from 2012 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. Each record links to a page showing it exactly as the project recorded it.

What does Bayonne Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 192 active Bayonne Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $123,368. The median for the 1,071 TPAF-enrolled staff at BAYONNE BOARD OF ED is $77,463, a ratio of 1.59x. Against the Hudson County school-staff median the ratio is 1.32x. These are pensionable base salaries: they exclude overtime, stipends, longevity and leave payouts for both groups, and a school contract year and a police work year are different lengths. TPAF covers certificated school staff, not only classroom teachers.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2255. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
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