Department profile · Middlesex County

Carteret Police Department

Reported as: Carteret PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

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

Carteret Police Department encrypts its radio communications (P25 AES-256, all operations), according to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, as of 2026-03-06 (unverified).

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

No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Carteret received a C on the report card, at the 42nd 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

17^{^[1]}

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

IA investigations, 2025

25^{^[1]}

Incidents, 2025

14^{^[1]}

Major discipline records

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

71^{^[7]}

65 years reported

71 sworn officers in 2025, up from 42 in 1960 (+69%).
Year	sworn officers
1960	42
1961	42
1962	41
1963	39
1964	40
1965	41
1966	41
1967	not reported
1968	39
1969	42
1970	39
1971	42
1972	46
1973	39
1974	45
1975	50
1976	51
1977	53
1978	48
1979	46
1980	48
1981	51
1982	44
1983	47
1984	49
1985	50
1986	50
1987	50
1988	49
1989	51
1990	52
1991	53
1992	53
1993	51
1994	52
1995	51
1996	50
1997	50
1998	47
1999	49
2000	50
2001	50
2002	50
2003	53
2004	58
2005	60
2006	63
2007	62
2008	60
2009	62
2010	57
2011	55
2012	53
2013	53
2014	52
2015	59
2016	57
2017	60
2018	63
2019	64
2020	64
2021	68
2022	70
2023	71
2024	71
2025	71

Civilian employees, 2025

2^{^[8]}

0.03 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

7^{^[9]}

9.9% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.72^{^[10]}

Municipal departments only

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

How Carteret 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
Range	Agencies
0–200	84
200–400	5
400–600	1
600–800	1
800–1000	0
1000–1200	1

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Carteret Police Department: 71 sworn officers: 25th 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 67 active Carteret Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$141,147^{^[3]}

67 active officers

Median local school staff

$84,270

CARTERET BD OF ED, 389 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.67x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.59x

Median officer to Middlesex 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 "CARTERET 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 Middlesex County pay page.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

One line item, one year: Carteret Police Department received a single piece of federal surplus equipment in 2021, categorized as Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled, with a recorded value of $89,900 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value. That category is one this site classes as tactical. The record describes a transfer received, not a current inventory, because 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. This site's Militarization Index, which is analysis and not an official measure, puts Carteret PD at $1,266 per officer, in the 70th percentile among 93 agencies in the 60+ officers band, where a higher index reflects 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

$89,900^{^[2]}

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$89,900^{^[2]}

1 of 1 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

2021^{^[2]}

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 1 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 Carteret Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled	89,900 tactical

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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 Carteret Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
Category	Class	Line items	Quantity received	Recorded value (original cost)
Trucks and truck tractors, wheeledMilitary trucks · FSC 2320	Tactical	1	1 items (Each)	$89,900

Every recorded transfer

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1033 program transfers recorded for Carteret Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
Item	Category	Qty	Recorded valueOriginal DoD cost	Ship date	DEMIL
TRUCK,UTILITYNSN 2320-01-380-8604Shipped 2021-05-26 · DEMIL Q	Trucks and truck tractors, wheeled Tactical	1 Each	$89,900	2021-05-26	Q

1 of 1 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.

Carteret Police Department received $1,266 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 70th 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
Range	Agencies
0–5000	75
5000–10000	9
10000–15000	6
15000–20000	2

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Carteret Police Department: 1,266 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 70th 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 Carteret Police Department, by year
Category	counts
2021	53
2022	24
2023	27
2024	35
2025	25

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Incidents

14 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Carteret Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	53
2022	24
2023	27
2024	33
2025	14

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Officers on IA rows

25 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Carteret Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	not reported
2022	not reported
2023	not reported
2024	35
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 Carteret Police Department, by year
Year	share of total
2021	0
2022	8.333
2023	14.815
2024	8.571
2025	0

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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 Carteret Police Department, 2025
Differential Treatment	13
not provided	5
Excessive Force	3
Demeanor	2
Improper Arrest	2

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AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Differential Treatment · Excessive Force · Demeanor · Improper Arrest

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Carteret Police Department, 2025
Unfounded	20
Exonerated	3
Administratively Closed	1
not provided	1

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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

38 of 164

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Carteret Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	25
2022	4
2023	4
2024	5
2025	0

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Excessive Force

27 of 164

Excessive Force allegations reported by Carteret Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	11
2022	6
2023	4
2024	3
2025	3

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Differential Treatment

26 of 164

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Carteret Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	4
2022	0
2023	2
2024	7
2025	13

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Demeanor

19 of 164

Demeanor allegations reported by Carteret Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	10
2022	0
2023	3
2024	4
2025	2

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Other (8 categories)

54 of 164

Other (8 categories) allegations reported by Carteret Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	3
2022	14
2023	14
2024	16
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)
Carteret Police Department	147.1
County median, municipal police (25)	125.0
NJ median, municipal police (445)	125.9

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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.

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

25 investigations reported for 2025^[1] ÷ 71 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025^[22] = 35.2 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: 42nd percentile of 93 peers
Confidence: High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Carteret 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
Range	Agencies
0–50	66
50–100	25
100–150	1
150–200	1

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Carteret Police Department: 0 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 2nd 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%

73rd percentileof 93 peers

144.8 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%

2nd percentileof 93 peers

0.0 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%

90th percentileof 93 peers

2.47 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.^[23] 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	147.1	124th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations2025	25	95th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents2025	14	127th of 445 municipal police
Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30	$1,266	101st of 163 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year	2.72	157th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-31	1.59x	89th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present	48	38th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

No major discipline records appear for this agency in the 2020-2025 releases. Absence of records is not a finding; see the methodology for what this data does and does not cover.

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.^[4] 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.

Police-related requests

48^{^[4]}

Every request filed to this department

Most recent request

March 2026^{^[4]}

First recorded February 2020

Awaiting a response

25^{^[4]}

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 records requests to Carteret Police Department (requests)
Awaiting agency response	24
Requester reported success	8
Requester reported partial success	8
Request refused	3
Agency said records not held	2
Withdrawn by requester	1
Awaiting clarification	1
Flagged for attention	1

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Recent requests

The 12 most recent requests to Carteret Police Department, 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.

2026-03-07Awaiting agency response
2026-02-04Awaiting agency response
2026-01-26Withdrawn by requester
2026-01-26Awaiting agency response
2026-01-07Awaiting agency response
2025-12-30Requester reported success
2025-12-08Awaiting agency response
2025-11-13Awaiting agency response
2025-09-16Awaiting agency response
2025-09-05Awaiting agency response
2025-05-14Awaiting agency response
2025-05-06Requester reported partial success

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.

A member of the public requested: “Police report for a accident”
2026-03-07 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “2025 IA Summary and Major Discipline Report (Departments in Middlesex County)”
2026-02-04 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Body-worn camera footage from April 12, 2024 traffic stop”
2026-01-26 · Withdrawn by requester
A member of the public requested: “Body-worn camera footage from April 12, 2024 traffic stop”
2026-01-26 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Request accident report”
2026-01-07 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Police Department Roster with Badge Numbers”
2025-12-30 · Requester reported success
A member of the public requested: “Request for Existing BWC &/ MVC Footage & Requests”
2025-12-08 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Body Warn Camera worn by PD Officer Donald Earl Badge# 120 Accident 8/17/2025 around 9am”
2025-11-13 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “BWC Footage”
2025-09-16 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Crash Report 020166”
2025-09-05 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “OPRA Request For BWC Footage and Incident Reports”
2025-05-14 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “crime Data and staff roster”
2025-05-06 · Requester reported partial success

File your own records request

Anyone can request records from this department 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 Carteret Police Department 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 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 Carteret Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Carteret Police Department is a municipal police agency in Middlesex County. It recorded 25 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 17 officers named in those cases, a rate of 147.1 per 100 officers. The Middlesex County median was 125 and the municipal median statewide was 125.9. A rate above both can indicate more misconduct or a department that documents complaints its peers leave unrecorded. None of the 25 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Differential Treatment led the allegation categories, followed by Excessive Force and Demeanor. No major discipline records appear in the 2020-2025 releases, and the absence of records is not a finding. Carteret received a C on the report card, at the 42nd percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Carteret Police Department reported 25 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 17 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Carteret Police Department have?

No major discipline records appear for Carteret Police Department in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases. Absence of records is not a finding; discipline is listed only after all appeals conclude.

Does Carteret Police Department encrypt its radio communications?

According to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, Carteret Police Department encrypts all 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 Carteret Police Department have?

Carteret Police Department reported 71 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 9.9% of them female. That is 2.72 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 Carteret Police Department received through the 1033 program?

Carteret Police Department received 1 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program in 2021, with a total recorded value of $89,900 (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 Carteret Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for Carteret Police Department under the 1033 program totals $89,900 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $89,900 is in categories this site classes as tactical (1 of 1 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.

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

The median pensionable salary for the 67 active Carteret Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $141,147. The median for the 389 TPAF-enrolled staff at CARTERET BD OF ED is $84,270, a ratio of 1.67x. Against the Middlesex County school-staff median the ratio is 1.59x. 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]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2302. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[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]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]Records-request activity for Carteret Police Department. 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. ↩
[5]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Carteret PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[6]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.
[7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8388. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[8]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8388. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[9]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8388. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[10]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8388. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 269. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1287. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[13]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1790. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[14]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 772. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[15]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2302. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[16]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 Carteret PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
[17]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 Carteret PD row for 2021. ↩
[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 Carteret PD row for 2022. ↩
[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 Carteret PD row for 2023. ↩
[20]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 Carteret PD row for 2024. ↩
[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 Carteret PD row for 2025. ↩
[22]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8388. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[23]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. ↩