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Essex County Prosecutor's Office

Reported as: Essex Co Prosecutors OfficeCounty prosecutor

Jurisdiction context

Civil service status not verified

We could not match this agency to the NJCSC roster with confidence. Whether the Title 4A framework applies here is not asserted either way.

See the context on non-civil-service departments.

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

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

50[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

67[1]

Incidents, 2025

52[1]

Major discipline records

1

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[5]

49 years reported

0 sworn officers in 2025, down from 173 in 1976 (-100%).
Yearsworn officers
1976173
1977176
1978178
1979177
1980187
1981193
1982206
1983206
1984222
1985250
1986262
1987239
1988258
1989293
1990286
1991308
1992299
1993303
1994295
1995296
1996300
1997298
1998299
1999277
2000276
2001302
2002303
2003291
2004255
2005284
2006156
2007305
2008162
2009195
2010142
2011137
2012139
2013not reported
2014142
2015133
2016122
2017251
2018249
2019249
2020120
2021118
2022123
2023124
2024122
20250

Civilian employees, 2025

0[6]

Female sworn officers, 2025

0[7]

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

How Essex County Prosecutor's Office's sworn staffing compares with its real peer group (same agency type, similar size band), not an assumed bell curve.

Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20)

Sworn officers: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies
RangeAgencies
0–202
20–405
40–602
60–807
80–1001
100–1203

Essex County Prosecutor's Office: 0 sworn officers: 2nd percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20).

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.

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 Essex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Categorycounts
202440
202567

Incidents

52 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Essex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
202427
202552

Officers on IA rows

63 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Essex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
202437
202563
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 · 2 reported years

Share of internal affairs investigations sustained by Essex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearshare of total
202417.5
202523.881

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 63 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Essex County Prosecutor's Office, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation20
Preventable MV Accident17
Theft14
Drug Test Failure3
Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert2
Neglect of Duty2
Other Criminal Violation2
Insubordination/Disobeying An Order2
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Preventable MV Accident · Theft · Drug Test Failure · Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert · Neglect of Duty · Other Criminal Violation · Insubordination/Disobeying An Order

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Essex County Prosecutor's Office, 2025
Not Sustained23
Sustained16
not provided13
Exonerated12
Unfounded3

Allegations by year, 2024 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

33 of 107

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Essex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
202413
202520

Theft

27 of 107

Theft allegations reported by Essex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
202413
202514

Preventable MV Accident

25 of 107

Preventable MV Accident allegations reported by Essex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20248
202517

Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert

4 of 107

Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert allegations reported by Essex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20242
20252

Other (9 categories)

18 of 107

Other (9 categories) allegations reported by Essex County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20244
202514

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Essex County Prosecutor's Office134.0
County median, county prosecutor (1)134.0
NJ median, county prosecutor (21)107.5

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.

67 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 0 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[13] = 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
69th percentile of 21 peers
Confidence
Medium confidence
  • only 2 year(s) with both investigations and officer counts reported

Where this agency falls among its peers

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

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

Discipline severity: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies
RangeAgencies
0–10016
100–2002
200–3002
300–4001

Essex County Prosecutor's Office: 4.938 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 31st percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor 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%

88th percentileof 21 peers

131.5 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%

31st percentileof 21 peers

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

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

Allegation severityweight 20%

55th percentileof 21 peers

2.08 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.[14] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025134.04th of 21 county prosecutor
IA investigations2025671st of 21 county prosecutor
IA incidents2025521st of 21 county prosecutor
Major discipline2020-2025111th of 16 county prosecutor

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20220
20231
20240
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Essex County Prosecutor's Office, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2023Samouri CleggDetectiveSeparated while IA pending[15]

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)

One record in the Fatal Encounters dataset names the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, from 2006. The dataset's own as-recorded force label for that record is Gunshot. Fatal Encounters was an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, medical emergencies, and suicides in police presence. A record is not a finding of fault, and it does not say police caused the death. The project stopped collecting 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.[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 Prosecutor's Officeis 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.

  • Javanghn Robinson

    February 15, 2006 · East Orange · 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 Prosecutor's Office report in 2025?

Essex County Prosecutor's Office reported 67 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 50 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Essex County Prosecutor's Office have?

Essex County Prosecutor's Office has 1 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 0 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does Essex County Prosecutor's Office have?

Essex County Prosecutor's Office reported 0 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025. 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.

How many deaths during police encounters are recorded for Essex County Prosecutor's Office?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 1 record naming Essex County Prosecutor's Office, from 2006 through 2006. 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

  1. [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2215. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]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/ ↩
  3. [3]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Essex Co Prosecutors Office row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  4. [4]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.
  5. [5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8311. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  6. [6]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8311. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  7. [7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8311. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  8. [8]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 691. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  9. [9]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2215. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  10. [10]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 Essex Co Prosecutors Office row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  11. [11]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 Essex Co Prosecutors Office row for 2024. ↩
  12. [12]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 Essex Co Prosecutors Office row for 2025. ↩
  13. [13]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8311. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  14. [14]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. ↩
  15. [15]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1656. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩