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Hudson County Prosecutor's Office

Reported as: Hudson Co Prosecutor 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.

In brief

The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office is a county prosecutor agency in Hudson County. In 2025 it named 8 officers in internal affairs cases and recorded 8 investigations, a rate of 100 per 100 officers. That matches the Hudson County median of 100 and falls under the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies. Where a rate exceeds a median, it can mean more misconduct or an office that documents a larger share of its complaints. Of the 8 investigations detailed for 2025, 3 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation and Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency were the leading allegation categories.

Three major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2024 and 2025. The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office received a B on the report card, at the 33rd percentile among 21 peers in the all prosecutor agencies group, 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

8[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

8[1]

Incidents, 2025

4[1]

Major discipline records

3

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

107[4]

49 years reported

107 sworn officers in 2025, up from 89 in 1976 (+20%).
Yearsworn officers
197689
1977106
1978109
1979109
198066
198166
198275
198375
198485
198584
1986125
198788
1988106
1989105
1990101
1991104
1992100
1993105
199499
1995102
199695
199789
199897
199998
200094
200199
200296
200398
2004100
200594
2006104
200799
2008102
200997
201096
201191
201297
2013not reported
201491
201598
201698
201797
201899
2019101
202097
2021101
2022101
2023108
2024101
2025107

Civilian employees, 2025

156[5]

1.46 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

39[6]

36.4% of sworn officers

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

How Hudson 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
0–509
50–1009
100–1502

Hudson County Prosecutor's Office: 107 sworn officers: 90th 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 Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Categorycounts
202113
20227
20238
20248
20258

Incidents

4 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
202113
20227
20235
20248
20254

Officers on IA rows

8 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
20248
20258
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 Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202257.143
202325
202437.5
202537.5

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 8 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation4
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency4
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, 2025
Sustained3
Unfounded3
Exonerated1
Not Sustained1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

23 of 44

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
202110
20224
20234
20241
20254

Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency

7 of 44

Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency allegations reported by Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20230
20243
20254

Neglect of Duty

4 of 44

Neglect of Duty allegations reported by Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20221
20230
20243
20250

Other Criminal Violation

4 of 44

Other Criminal Violation allegations reported by Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20213
20220
20231
20240
20250

Other (5 categories)

6 of 44

Other (5 categories) allegations reported by Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20222
20233
20241
20250

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Hudson County Prosecutor's Office100.0
County median, county prosecutor (1)100.0
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.

8 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 107 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[18] = 7.5 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 B: Second-lowest fifth

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
33rd 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 Hudson 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

Hudson County Prosecutor's Office: 62.5 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 69th 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%

2nd percentileof 21 peers

94.7 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%

69th percentileof 21 peers

62.5 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%

40th 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.[19] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025100.012th of 21 county prosecutor
IA investigations2025812th of 21 county prosecutor
IA incidents2025413th of 21 county prosecutor
Major discipline2020-202532nd of 16 county prosecutor

Major discipline records

2 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20220
20230
20241
20252

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

Major discipline records reported by Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2025Risheem WhittenDetectiveSuspended 5 days[20]
2025Krystal WilkinsDetectiveSuspended 25 days[21]
2024Raquel KrauseDetectiveSeparated while IA pending[22]

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 Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's internal affairs and discipline record?

The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office is a county prosecutor agency in Hudson County. In 2025 it named 8 officers in internal affairs cases and recorded 8 investigations, a rate of 100 per 100 officers. That matches the Hudson County median of 100 and falls under the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies. Where a rate exceeds a median, it can mean more misconduct or an office that documents a larger share of its complaints. Of the 8 investigations detailed for 2025, 3 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation and Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency were the leading allegation categories. Three major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2024 and 2025. The Hudson County Prosecutor's Office received a B on the report card, at the 33rd percentile among 21 peers in the all prosecutor agencies group, a medium-confidence grade.

How many internal affairs investigations did Hudson County Prosecutor's Office report in 2025?

Hudson County Prosecutor's Office reported 8 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 8 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

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

Hudson County Prosecutor's Office has 3 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 Hudson County Prosecutor's Office have?

Hudson County Prosecutor's Office reported 107 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 36.4% of them female. 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.

Sources

  1. [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2261. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Hudson Co Prosecutor Office row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  3. [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.
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  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 Hudson Co Prosecutor Office row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  13. [13]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 Hudson Co Prosecutor Office row for 2021. ↩
  14. [14]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 Hudson Co Prosecutor Office row for 2022. ↩
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  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 Hudson Co Prosecutor Office row for 2025. ↩
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  19. [19]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. ↩
  20. [20]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 368. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  21. [21]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 369. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  22. [22]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1100. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩