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Bloomfield Police Department

Reported as: Bloomfield PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Bloomfield 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.

Radio encryption

Bloomfield Police Department encrypts its radio communications (P25 AES-256, part of its operations (Only tactical communications are encrypted)), according to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, as of 2026-03-06 (verified).

AnalysisThis site treats radio encryption as a meaningful transparency signal. When a department closes its radio traffic to the public, the public loses a real-time window into how it operates. That is context for reading the discipline and internal affairs records on this page, not a figure drawn from them.

In brief

Bloomfield Police Department named 79 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and logged 115 investigations, a rate of 145.6 per 100 officers. The Essex County median is 158.6, higher, and the statewide median for municipal police is 125.9, lower. Neither figure resolves what a caseload means, because more investigations can point to more misconduct or to a department that documents more of its complaints. Of the 115 investigations detailed for 2025, 12 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, followed by Demeanor and Differential Treatment.

Major discipline records appear in the 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025 releases, 11 in all. Bloomfield received a D on the report card, at the 74th 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

79[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

115[1]

Incidents, 2025

78[1]

Major discipline records

11

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

0[8]

64 years reported

0 sworn officers in 2025, down from 92 in 1960 (-100%).
Yearsworn officers
196092
1961101
1962not reported
1963100
1964not reported
1965102
1966102
1967106
1968107
1969113
1970113
1971116
1972117
1973119
1974121
1975118
1976115
1977109
1978112
1979114
1980118
1981118
1982111
1983111
1984109
1985110
1986114
1987112
1988108
1989107
1990109
1991110
1992112
1993117
1994119
1995122
1996122
1997119
1998123
1999124
2000119
2001116
2002121
2003119
2004125
2005132
2006138
2007133
2008133
2009126
2010122
2011122
2012126
2013123
2014124
2015117
2016121
2017129
2018125
2019125
2020126
2021123
2022123
2023122
2024124
20250

Civilian employees, 2025

0[9]

Female sworn officers, 2025

0[10]

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

0[11]

Municipal departments only

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

How Bloomfield 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, 1-14 officers (n=100)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 1-14 officers
RangeAgencies
0–212
2–43
4–61
6–817
8–1011
10–1215
12–1441

Bloomfield Police Department: 0 sworn officers: 6th percentile among Municipal police, 1-14 officers (n=100).

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 115 active Bloomfield Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$125,608[3]

115 active officers

Median local school staff

$87,352

BLOOMFIELD TWP BD OF ED, 672 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.44x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.39x

Median officer to Essex 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 "BLOOMFIELD TWP BD 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 Essex County pay page.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

Bloomfield Police Department's record in the federal surplus program is old and narrow: 12 line items, all shipped in 1998, all in the category Guns, through 30mm. Their recorded value is $3,822 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value. Every line item is in a category this site classes as tactical. Nearly three decades on, this remains a record of what the department received, not of what it holds today, and non-controlled items may be disposed of after one year. Receiving surplus equipment through the federal program is not misconduct, and this data is separate in origin from the Attorney General discipline records on this page.

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

Total recorded value

$3,822[2]

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$3,822[2]

12 of 12 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

1998[2]

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 12 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 Bloomfield Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Guns, through 30mm3,822 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 Bloomfield Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
CategoryClassLine itemsQuantity receivedRecorded value (original cost)
Guns, through 30mmWeapons · FSC 1005Tactical1212 items (Each)$3,822

Every recorded transfer

Equipment class

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Filtering only hides rows; every recorded transfer stays in the table below it.

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1033 program transfers recorded for Bloomfield Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
ItemCategoryQtyRecorded valueOriginal DoD cost
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 1998-06-25 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 1998-06-25 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 1998-06-25 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 1998-06-25 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 1998-06-25 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 1998-06-25 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,7.62 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-589-1271Shipped 1998-06-23 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$138
RIFLE,7.62 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-589-1271Shipped 1998-06-23 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$138
RIFLE,7.62 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-589-1271Shipped 1998-06-23 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$138
RIFLE,7.62 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-589-1271Shipped 1998-06-23 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$138
RIFLE,7.62 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-589-1271Shipped 1998-06-23 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$138
RIFLE,7.62 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-589-1271Shipped 1998-06-23 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$138

12 of 12 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

No index is computed for this agency: there is no reliable per-officer basis (no high-confidence FBI staffing match to divide by). 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 Bloomfield Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202175
202298
2023120
2024146
2025115

Incidents

78 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Bloomfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202156
202268
202382
202487
202578

Officers on IA rows

114 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Bloomfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
2024143
2025114
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 Bloomfield Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202218.367
202317.5
202428.767
202510.435

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 114 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Bloomfield Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation48
Demeanor19
Differential Treatment14
not provided14
Excessive Force9
BWC/MVR Violation4
Other Criminal Violation2
False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal)1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Differential Treatment · Excessive Force · BWC/MVR Violation · Other Criminal Violation · False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Criminal)

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Bloomfield Police Department, 2025
Exonerated58
Unfounded23
Not Sustained15
Sustained11
not provided8

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

223 of 554

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Bloomfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202139
202233
202348
202455
202548

Demeanor

101 of 554

Demeanor allegations reported by Bloomfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202122
202224
202321
202415
202519

Differential Treatment

53 of 554

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Bloomfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20224
202314
202421
202514

Neglect of Duty

51 of 554

Neglect of Duty allegations reported by Bloomfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20229
202320
202421
20251

Other (19 categories)

126 of 554

Other (19 categories) allegations reported by Bloomfield Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202114
202228
202317
202434
202533

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Bloomfield Police Department145.6
County median, municipal police (22)158.6
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.

115 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 0 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[23] = Infinity 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 D: Second-highest fifth

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
74th percentile of 93 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Bloomfield 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

Bloomfield Police Department: 31.609 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 47th 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%

85th percentileof 93 peers

157.9 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%

47th percentileof 93 peers

31.6 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%

36th percentileof 93 peers

1.90 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 officers2025145.6129th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations202511511th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20257814th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20251118th of 282 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year0.00449th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.39x212th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present26117th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

3 major discipline records in 2025, up from 2 in 2020 (+50%).
Yearmajor discipline records
20202
20212
20221
20233
20240
20253

3 major discipline records in 2025, up from 2 in 2020 (+50%).

Major discipline records reported by Bloomfield Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2025Jeffrey KoeckOfficerSuspended 15 days[25]
2025Jeffrey KoeckOfficerSuspended 10 days[26]
2025Christopher McNultyOfficerSuspended 245 daysSeparated while IA pending[27]
2023Rana KhalidOfficerSuspended 6 days[28]
2023Brian DiMarcoOfficerSuspended 10 days[29]
2023Thomas LutzDetectiveSuspended 20 days[30]
2022Joseph ConditoPolice OfficerSuspended 12 days[31]
2021Edward ProskeyLieutenantSuspended 25 days[32]
2021Naomi ZepedaLieutenantSuspended 20 days[33]
2020Edward ProskeyLieutenantSuspended 25 days[34]
2020Naomi ZepedaLieutenantSuspended 20 days[35]

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)

Five records in the Fatal Encounters dataset name Bloomfield Police Department, in years from 2002 through 2019. The as-recorded level of force is listed as Gunshot in three of them, and as Asphyxiated/Restrained and Vehicle 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 pursuits and medical emergencies. A record is not a finding of fault against Bloomfield Police Department or any officer. Collection ended in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen at that date.

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 Bloomfield 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.

  • Patrick R. Montella

    January 15, 2019 · Bloomfield · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

  • Leroy Frank

    August 18, 2017 · Bloomfield · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

  • Rasheed Cherry

    May 7, 2010 · Bloomfield · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

  • Francisco Perez

    March 29, 2009 · Newark · Highest level of force as recorded: Vehicle

  • Santiago (Chago) Villanueva

    April 16, 2002 · Bloomfield · Highest level of force as recorded: Asphyxiated/Restrained

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 Bloomfield Township, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 26 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 176 filed to Bloomfield Township are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

26[5]

Identified by subject line, of 202 filed to Bloomfield Township

Most recent request

November 2025[5]

First recorded April 2020

Awaiting a response

18[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 Bloomfield Township (requests)
Awaiting agency response18
Requester reported success4
Requester reported partial success3
Request refused1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Bloomfield Township, 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. 2025-11-10Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-08-16Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-08-16Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-05-30Awaiting agency response
  5. 2025-04-29Awaiting agency response
  6. 2025-04-28Requester reported success
  7. 2024-11-25Requester reported partial success
  8. 2024-10-30Awaiting agency response
  9. 2024-09-25Awaiting agency response
  10. 2024-09-21Awaiting agency response
  11. 2024-09-04Awaiting agency response
  12. 2024-08-27Awaiting 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 Bloomfield Township 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 Bloomfield Township 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 Bloomfield Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Bloomfield Police Department named 79 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and logged 115 investigations, a rate of 145.6 per 100 officers. The Essex County median is 158.6, higher, and the statewide median for municipal police is 125.9, lower. Neither figure resolves what a caseload means, because more investigations can point to more misconduct or to a department that documents more of its complaints. Of the 115 investigations detailed for 2025, 12 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, followed by Demeanor and Differential Treatment. Major discipline records appear in the 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025 releases, 11 in all. Bloomfield received a D on the report card, at the 74th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Bloomfield Police Department reported 115 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 79 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Bloomfield Police Department have?

Bloomfield Police Department has 11 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 0 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Does Bloomfield Police Department encrypt its radio communications?

According to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, Bloomfield Police Department encrypts part of its radio communications (P25 AES-256), as recorded on 2026-03-06. This site treats radio encryption as a transparency signal, which is analysis, not a figure from the discipline data.

How many officers does Bloomfield Police Department have?

Bloomfield Police Department reported 0 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025. That is 0 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 Bloomfield Police Department received through the 1033 program?

Bloomfield Police Department received 12 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program in 1998, with a total recorded value of $3,822 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Guns, through 30mm. 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 Bloomfield Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for Bloomfield Police Department under the 1033 program totals $3,822 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $3,822 is in categories this site classes as tactical (12 of 12 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 Bloomfield Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 5 records naming Bloomfield Police Department, from 2002 through 2019. 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 Bloomfield Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 115 active Bloomfield Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $125,608. The median for the 672 TPAF-enrolled staff at BLOOMFIELD TWP BD OF ED is $87,352, a ratio of 1.44x. Against the Essex County school-staff median the ratio is 1.39x. 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 2210. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]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/ ↩
  3. [3]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. ↩
  4. [4]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/ ↩
  5. [5]Records-request activity for Bloomfield Township. OPRAmachine (opramachine.com), an independent public-records platform. Publicly visible requests only. Point-in-time snapshot taken 2026-07-12 from a database export dated 2026-07-11. Not updated after that date; see opramachine.com for current activity. ↩
  6. [6]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Bloomfield PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  7. [7]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.
  8. [8]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8287. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  9. [9]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8287. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
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  14. [14]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1705. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  15. [15]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 686. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  16. [16]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2210. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  17. [17]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Bloomfield PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  18. [18]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Bloomfield PD row for 2021. ↩
  19. [19]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Bloomfield PD row for 2022. ↩
  20. [20]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Bloomfield PD row for 2023. ↩
  21. [21]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Bloomfield PD row for 2024. ↩
  22. [22]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Bloomfield PD row for 2025. ↩
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  24. [24]Ranks computed by this site over the Attorney General internal affairs agency totals and major discipline releases, within agency type. Each ranking page lists every agency and its source rows. ↩
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  26. [26]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 284. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  27. [27]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 285. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  28. [28]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1632. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  29. [29]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1633. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  30. [30]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1634. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  31. [31]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2143. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  32. [32]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2519. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  33. [33]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2520. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  34. [34]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2830. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  35. [35]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2831. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩