Department profile · Burlington County

Burlington County Sheriff's Office

Reported as: Burlington County Sheriffs OffCounty sheriff

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

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

Two major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023 and 2025, including one termination. The office received an A on the report card, at the 17th percentile among 21 peers in the group of all sheriff agencies, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

22^{^[1]}

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

IA investigations, 2025

25^{^[1]}

Incidents, 2025

19^{^[1]}

Major discipline records

All years, 2020-2025

Staffing

Staffing data not available. The FBI's national staffing census (LEE) does not separately track county corrections facilities, sheriff's offices, or other county agencies in New Jersey -- only a single statewide Department of Corrections figure exists in that data. See the methodology for what FBI staffing data does and does not cover.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

No 1033 transfers recorded. No surplus-equipment transfers appear for this agency under a high-confidence name match in the Defense Logistics Agency's file as of 2026-06-30. That can mean the agency received nothing through the program, or that a recipient name in the federal file did not confidently match this department. See the methodology for how the match is made, or the statewide 1033 overview for how the program spreads across New Jersey.

Internal affairs investigations by year

counts

Internal affairs investigations reported by Burlington County Sheriff's Office, by year
Category	counts
2021	2
2022	2
2023	15
2024	23
2025	25

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Incidents

19 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Burlington County Sheriff's Office, by year
Year	counts
2021	2
2022	2
2023	14
2024	14
2025	19

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Officers on IA rows

25 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Burlington County Sheriff's Office, by year
Year	counts
2021	not reported
2022	not reported
2023	not reported
2024	23
2025	25

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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 Burlington County Sheriff's Office, by year
Year	share of total
2021	0
2022	0
2023	20
2024	26.087
2025	24

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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 25 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Burlington County Sheriff's Office, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation	11
Improper Entry	4
Demeanor	3
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency	2
Drug Test Failure	1
False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal)	1
Domestic violence (Non-Criminal)	1
Improper Search	1

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AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Improper Entry · Demeanor · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency · Drug Test Failure · False Documentation/Falsifying A Report (Non-Criminal) · Domestic violence (Non-Criminal) · Improper Search

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Burlington County Sheriff's Office, 2025
Exonerated	10
Sustained	6
Unfounded	4
Not Sustained	3
not provided	2

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Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

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Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Burlington County Sheriff's Office, by year
Year	counts
2021	2
2022	1
2023	4
2024	11
2025	11

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Demeanor

6 of 67

Demeanor allegations reported by Burlington County Sheriff's Office, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	0
2023	1
2024	2
2025	3

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Improper Entry

4 of 67

Improper Entry allegations reported by Burlington County Sheriff's Office, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	0
2023	0
2024	0
2025	4

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Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise

4 of 67

Improper Supervision/Failure To Supervise allegations reported by Burlington County Sheriff's Office, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	0
2023	1
2024	3
2025	0

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Other (12 categories)

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Other (12 categories) allegations reported by Burlington County Sheriff's Office, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	1
2023	9
2024	7
2025	7

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Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →

Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Burlington County Sheriff's Office	113.6
County median, county sheriff (1)	113.6
NJ median, county sheriff (20)	115.2

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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.

Report card

Grade A: Lowest fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing: 17th percentile of 21 peers
Confidence: Medium confidence

small agency; per-officer rates swing widely on a handful of cases

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Burlington County Sheriff's Office's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: County sheriff, all sheriff agencies (n=21)

Discipline severity: County sheriff, all sheriff agencies
Range	Agencies
0–50	6
50–100	8
100–150	6
150–200	0
200–250	1

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Burlington County Sheriff's Office: 58.333 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 40th percentile among County sheriff, all sheriff agencies (n=21).

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%

7th percentileof 21 peers

102.1 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%

40th percentileof 21 peers

58.3 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%

45th percentileof 21 peers

1.80 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.^[15] How each metric is defined.

This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
Metric	Value	Rank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025	113.6	11th of 20 county sheriff
IA investigations2025	25	12th of 20 county sheriff
IA incidents2025	19	11th of 20 county sheriff
Major discipline2020-2025	2	16th of 17 county sheriff
Terminations2020-2025	1	11th of 12 county sheriff

Major discipline records

1 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.
Year	major discipline records
2020	0
2021	0
2022	0
2023	1
2024	0
2025	1

1 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.

Major discipline records reported by Burlington County Sheriff's Office, 2020-2025
Year	Officer	Rank	Sanction as reported	Src
2025	Mikalah Goode	Officer	TerminatedSeparated while IA pending	^[16]
2023	Carol Cooper	CHIEF	DemotedSuspended 5 days	^[17]

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

Public records requests

No records-request history is shown for this department. OPRAmachine, an independent site that files and publishes Open Public Records Act requests, has no public body that confidently matches this department, so this site does not assert one. That does not mean nobody has requested records from it. (Checked against a snapshot of OPRAmachine taken 12 July 2026.) See the methodology for how the match is made.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Burlington County Sheriff's Office's internal affairs and discipline record?

The Burlington County Sheriff's Office reported 25 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 22 officers named in those cases, continuing a climb from 2 investigations in 2021. Its rate of 113.6 per 100 officers matched the county median of 113.6 and stayed under the 115.2 median for sheriff agencies. A rate at or above a median is ambiguous on its own: it can track more misconduct or a department that records more of the complaints it receives. Six of the 25 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories at 11, with Improper Entry at 4 and Demeanor at 3. Two major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, from 2023 and 2025, including one termination. The office received an A on the report card, at the 17th percentile among 21 peers in the group of all sheriff agencies, a medium-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did Burlington County Sheriff's Office report in 2025?

Burlington County Sheriff's Office reported 25 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 22 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Burlington County Sheriff's Office have?

Burlington County Sheriff's Office has 2 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 1 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

Where to go next

Burlington County
Every reporting agency in the same county, with the same figures side by side.
Rankings
Highest standing: 11th of 20 county sheriff, ia per 100 investigated officers
All report cards
This agency: grade A against peers of its type and size
Statewide totals
The same measures summed across all reporting agencies in New Jersey.
Staffing census
FBI-reported sworn and civilian headcounts, and how they are matched.
Download the data
The machine-readable files behind every figure on this page.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2125. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[2]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Burlington County Sheriffs Off row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[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]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 93. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[5]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1111. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[6]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1623. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[7]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 604. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[8]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2125. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[9]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 Burlington County Sheriffs Off row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
[10]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 Burlington County Sheriffs Off row for 2021. ↩
[11]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 Burlington County Sheriffs Off row for 2022. ↩
[12]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 Burlington County Sheriffs Off row for 2023. ↩
[13]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 Burlington County Sheriffs Off row for 2024. ↩
[14]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 Burlington County Sheriffs Off row for 2025. ↩
[15]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. ↩
[16]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 93. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[17]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1527. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩