Department profile · Union County

Kean University Police Department

Reported as: Kean University PDMunicipal police

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

Kean University Police Department, classified as municipal police and based in Union County, named 7 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 across 7 investigations. The rate of 100 per 100 officers falls under the Union County median of 137 and the 125.9 municipal median. A department above a median may be seeing more misconduct, or may be recording more of the complaints it receives. Of the 7 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Differential Treatment and Preventable MV Accident were the leading allegation categories, with Other Departmental Rule Violation also on file.

Five major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, 2022 and 2024. Kean University received an F on the report card, at the 82nd percentile among 171 peers in the 15-29 officers 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

7^{^[1]}

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

IA investigations, 2025

7^{^[1]}

Incidents, 2025

6^{^[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

23^{^[4]}

18 years reported

23 sworn officers in 2025, down from 27 in 2008 (-15%).
Year	sworn officers
2008	27
2009	27
2010	28
2011	26
2012	28
2013	25
2014	23
2015	23
2016	21
2017	19
2018	21
2019	19
2020	23
2021	19
2022	23
2023	21
2024	20
2025	23

Civilian employees, 2025

24^{^[5]}

1.04 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

5^{^[6]}

21.7% of sworn officers

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

How Kean University 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, 15-29 officers (n=166)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 15-29 officers
Range	Agencies
14–16	17
16–18	20
18–20	27
20–22	17
22–24	25
24–26	24
26–28	17
28–30	19

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Kean University Police Department: 23 sworn officers: 61st percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=166).

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

No median officer salary is published for Kean University Police Department. A department needs at least 10 active officers resolved to it in the NJ Treasury pension file before this site shows a median. That threshold is about the stability of the figure, not about the department. The county-level comparison is on the Union County pay page.

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 Kean University Police Department, by year
Category	counts
2021	13
2022	17
2023	8
2024	10
2025	7

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Incidents

6 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Kean University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	13
2022	16
2023	8
2024	10
2025	6

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Officers on IA rows

7 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Kean University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	not reported
2022	not reported
2023	not reported
2024	9
2025	7

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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 Kean University Police Department, by year
Year	share of total
2021	0
2022	58.824
2023	12.5
2024	60
2025	28.571

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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 7 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Kean University Police Department, 2025
Differential Treatment	2
Preventable MV Accident	2
Other Departmental Rule Violation	1
Neglect of Duty	1
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency	1

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AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Differential Treatment · Preventable MV Accident · Other Departmental Rule Violation · Neglect of Duty · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Kean University Police Department, 2025
Unfounded	2
Sustained	2
not provided	2
Administratively Closed	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

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Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Kean University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	12
2022	9
2023	3
2024	1
2025	1

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Demeanor

8 of 55

Demeanor allegations reported by Kean University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	1
2022	1
2023	4
2024	2
2025	0

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Preventable MV Accident

7 of 55

Preventable MV Accident allegations reported by Kean University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	0
2023	0
2024	5
2025	2

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Differential Treatment

6 of 55

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Kean University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	3
2023	1
2024	0
2025	2

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Other (7 categories)

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Other (7 categories) allegations reported by Kean University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	4
2023	0
2024	2
2025	2

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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)
Kean University Police Department	100.0
County median, municipal police (23)	137.0
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.

7 investigations reported for 2025^[1] ÷ 23 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025^[18] = 30.4 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 F: Highest fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing: 82nd percentile of 171 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 Kean University Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=171)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 15-29 officers
Range	Agencies
0–50	120
50–100	24
100–150	15
150–200	7
200–250	3
250–300	2

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Kean University Police Department: 119.048 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 91st percentile among Municipal police, 15-29 officers (n=171).

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%

74th percentileof 171 peers

132.2 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%

91st percentileof 171 peers

119.0 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%

11th percentileof 171 peers

1.53 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
Metric	Value	Rank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025	100.0	322nd of 445 municipal police
IA investigations2025	7	267th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents2025	6	244th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-2025	5	50th of 282 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Year	major discipline records
2020	0
2021	1
2022	3
2023	0
2024	1
2025	0

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Kean University Police Department, 2020-2025
Year	Officer	Rank	Sanction as reported	Src
2024	Jeffery Parker Jr.	Police Recruit	Separated while IA pending	^[20]
2022	Michael Fong	Sergeant	Suspended 40 days	^[21]
2022	Michael Fong	Sergeant	Suspended 30 days	^[22]
2022	Anthony Spagnola	Police Officer	Suspended 67 days	^[23]
2021	Eric Card	Officer	Suspended 57 days	^[24]

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 Kean University Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Kean University Police Department, classified as municipal police and based in Union County, named 7 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 across 7 investigations. The rate of 100 per 100 officers falls under the Union County median of 137 and the 125.9 municipal median. A department above a median may be seeing more misconduct, or may be recording more of the complaints it receives. Of the 7 investigations detailed for 2025, 2 reported sustained complaints. Differential Treatment and Preventable MV Accident were the leading allegation categories, with Other Departmental Rule Violation also on file. Five major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, 2022 and 2024. Kean University received an F on the report card, at the 82nd percentile among 171 peers in the 15-29 officers group, a medium-confidence grade.

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

Kean University Police Department reported 7 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 7 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Kean University Police Department have?

Kean University Police Department has 5 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 Kean University Police Department have?

Kean University Police Department reported 23 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 21.7% 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]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2528. 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 Kean University PD 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]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8622. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8622. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[6]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8622. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[7]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 481. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[8]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1504. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[9]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2011. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 989. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2528. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[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 Kean University PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
[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 Kean University PD row for 2021. ↩
[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 Kean University PD row for 2022. ↩
[15]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 Kean University PD row for 2023. ↩
[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 Kean University PD row for 2024. ↩
[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 Kean University PD row for 2025. ↩
[18]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8622. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[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]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1439. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[21]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2389. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[22]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2390. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[23]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2391. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[24]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2774. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩