Department profile · Essex County
Essex County Corrections
Reported as: Essex Co CorrectionsCorrections
Jurisdiction context
Civil service jurisdiction
Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Essex 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.
Officers named in IA cases, 2025
135[1]
Distinct officers in that year's IA investigations, not total staffing
IA investigations, 2025
164[1]
Incidents, 2025
140[1]
Major discipline records
62
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
| Category | counts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2024 | 76 |
| 2025 | 164 |
Incidents
140 in 2025
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2024 | 76 |
| 2025 | 140 |
Officers on IA rows
160 in 2025
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | not reported |
| 2024 | 75 |
| 2025 | 160 |
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 · 3 reported years
| Year | share of total |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2024 | 14.474 |
| 2025 | 0 |
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 160 officers involved.
Most serious allegation
| Other Departmental Rule Violation | 77 |
|---|---|
| Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency | 24 |
| Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert | 19 |
| Insubordination/Disobeying An Order | 13 |
| Excessive Force | 7 |
| Neglect of Duty | 5 |
| Drug Test Failure | 5 |
| Use Of Force Policy Violation | 3 |
Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency · Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert · Insubordination/Disobeying An Order · Excessive Force · Neglect of Duty · Drug Test Failure · Use Of Force Policy Violation
Internal disposition
| not provided | 79 |
|---|---|
| Sustained | 39 |
| Administratively Closed | 20 |
| Unfounded | 15 |
| Exonerated | 7 |
| Not Sustained | 4 |
Allegations by year, 2022 to 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation
103 of 241
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | not reported |
| 2024 | 26 |
| 2025 | 77 |
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency
41 of 241
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | not reported |
| 2024 | 17 |
| 2025 | 24 |
Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert
20 of 241
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | not reported |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 19 |
Insubordination/Disobeying An Order
19 of 241
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | not reported |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2025 | 13 |
Other (14 categories)
58 of 241
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | not reported |
| 2024 | 26 |
| 2025 | 31 |
Against peers, 2025
How this grade was built →| Essex County Corrections | 121.5 |
|---|---|
| County median, corrections (1) | 121.5 |
| NJ median, corrections (13) | 125.0 |
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
- 18th percentile of 15 peers
- Confidence
- High confidence
Where this agency falls among its peers
The actual spread of discipline severity across Essex County Corrections's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.
Peer group: Corrections, all corrections agencies (n=14)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–1000 | 13 |
| 1000–2000 | 0 |
| 2000–3000 | 1 |
Essex County Corrections: 261 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 61st percentile among Corrections, all corrections agencies (n=14).
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%
113.4 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%
261.0 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%
1.75 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
| Metric | Value | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| IA per 100 investigated officers2025 | 121.5 | 9th of 13 corrections |
| IA investigations2025 | 164 | 3rd of 13 corrections |
| IA incidents2025 | 140 | 2nd of 13 corrections |
| Major discipline2020-2025 | 62 | 4th of 14 corrections |
| Terminations2020-2025 | 25 | 2nd of 12 corrections |
Major discipline records
| Year | major discipline records |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 13 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 17 |
17 major discipline records in 2025, up from 2 in 2020 (+750%).
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)
Two records in the Fatal Encounters dataset name Essex County Corrections, from 2008 through 2012. The dataset records the force in its own as-recorded terms as Gunshot in both of them. The dataset comes from Fatal Encounters, an independent crowdsourced journalism project that logged deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, overdoses, and medical emergencies. A record means a death occurred during an encounter with the agency named in the as-reported agency field; it is not a finding of fault. Collection ended in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen at that point and later years are simply not covered.
Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.[2] 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 Essex County Correctionsis 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.
- Steven McCrae
July 25, 2012 · Newark · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot
- Clarence Harris
April 3, 2008 · Irvington · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot
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
How many internal affairs investigations did Essex County Corrections report in 2025?
Essex County Corrections reported 164 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 135 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.
How many major discipline records does Essex County Corrections have?
Essex County Corrections has 62 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 25 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How many deaths during police encounters are recorded for Essex County Corrections?
The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 2 records naming Essex County Corrections, from 2008 through 2012. 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.
Sources
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