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Livingston Police Department

Reported as: Livingston PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Not a civil service jurisdiction

This department is not among the NJCSC Appendix A jurisdictions, so major discipline here follows a different statutory track (generally N.J.S.A. 40A:14 for municipal police), with appeals that usually go to the Superior Court rather than the Civil Service Commission.

See the context on non-civil-service departments.

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

Radio encryption

Livingston Police Department encrypts its radio communications (P25 ADP, all operations), according to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, as of 2026-03-06 (verified).

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

Livingston Police Department, a municipal police agency in Essex County, reported 50 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 32 officers named in those cases. Its rate of 156.3 per 100 officers falls just under the Essex County median of 158.6 and well above the 125.9 statewide municipal median. A rate above the state median can reflect more misconduct or a department that documents more of its complaints. Of the 50 investigations detailed for 2025, 23 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, with Demeanor and Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation following.

One major discipline record appears in the 2020-2025 releases, from 2020, with no terminations reported. Livingston received a B on the report card, at the 32nd 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

32[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

50[1]

Incidents, 2025

43[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

69[6]

66 years reported

69 sworn officers in 2025, up from 34 in 1960 (+103%).
Yearsworn officers
196034
196135
196236
196337
196438
196541
196641
196742
196843
196942
197042
197144
197244
197344
197444
197545
197646
197746
197846
197946
198046
198149
198245
198346
198448
198545
198648
198748
198845
198952
199052
199154
199257
199357
199459
199561
199660
199763
199863
199966
200067
200170
200271
200372
200473
200574
200674
200775
200871
200974
201072
201168
201269
201368
201466
201567
201668
201771
201870
201971
202070
202170
202272
202369
202469
202569

Civilian employees, 2025

12[7]

0.17 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

6[8]

8.7% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.13[9]

Municipal departments only

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

How Livingston 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
RangeAgencies
0–20084
200–4005
400–6001
600–8001
800–10000
1000–12001

Livingston Police Department: 69 sworn officers: 22nd 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 71 active Livingston Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$136,493[2]

71 active officers

Median local school staff

$97,874

LIVINGSTON BD OF ED, 647 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.39x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.51x

Median officer to Essex 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 "LIVINGSTON 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 Essex 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 Livingston Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202148
202256
202375
202443
202550

Incidents

43 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Livingston Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202124
202238
202345
202436
202543

Officers on IA rows

49 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Livingston Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202442
202549
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 Livingston Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202217.857
202337.333
202439.535
202546

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 49 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Livingston Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation13
Demeanor9
Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation8
Preventable MV Accident6
Differential Treatment4
Improper Arrest3
Improper Entry3
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Demeanor · Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation · Preventable MV Accident · Differential Treatment · Improper Arrest · Improper Entry · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Livingston Police Department, 2025
Sustained21
Not Sustained11
not provided10
Unfounded4
Exonerated3
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

94 of 272

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Livingston Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202131
202214
202327
20249
202513

Demeanor

64 of 272

Demeanor allegations reported by Livingston Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202111
202216
202319
20249
20259

Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation

30 of 272

Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation allegations reported by Livingston Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20223
202315
20244
20258

Preventable MV Accident

19 of 272

Preventable MV Accident allegations reported by Livingston Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20222
20232
20249
20256

Other (15 categories)

65 of 272

Other (15 categories) allegations reported by Livingston Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20216
202221
202312
202412
202514

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Livingston Police Department156.3
County median, municipal police (22)158.6
NJ median, municipal police (445)125.9

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.

50 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 69 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[21] = 72.5 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
32nd percentile of 93 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Livingston 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
RangeAgencies
0–5066
50–10025
100–1501
150–2001

Livingston Police Department: 5.78 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 7th 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%

83rd percentileof 93 peers

156.1 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%

7th percentileof 93 peers

5.8 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%

23rd percentileof 93 peers

1.78 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.[22] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025156.390th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20255041st of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20254332nd of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20251184th of 282 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year2.13289th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.51x138th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present3086th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, down from 1 in 2020 (-100%).
Yearmajor discipline records
20201
20210
20220
20230
20240
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, down from 1 in 2020 (-100%).

Major discipline records reported by Livingston Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2020Christopher WagnerOfficerSuspended 35 days[23]

Every name links to the officer's record page with the agency's full synopsis and citation.

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.[3] 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.

This department has no separate listing on OPRAmachine. Records requests for it are handled through Livingston Township, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 30 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 196 filed to Livingston Township are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

30[3]

Identified by subject line, of 226 filed to Livingston Township

Most recent request

June 2026[3]

First recorded May 2020

Awaiting a response

21[3]

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 police-related records requests to Livingston Township (requests)
Awaiting agency response21
Requester reported success6
Requester reported partial success2
Agency said records not held1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Livingston Township, 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.

  1. 2026-06-03Requester reported success
  2. 2026-05-19Awaiting agency response
  3. 2026-05-19Awaiting agency response
  4. 2026-05-19Awaiting agency response
  5. 2025-07-15Agency said records not held
  6. 2025-05-16Awaiting agency response
  7. 2025-01-03Requester reported success
  8. 2024-08-22Awaiting agency response
  9. 2024-08-08Awaiting agency response
  10. 2024-07-25Awaiting agency response
  11. 2024-07-25Awaiting agency response
  12. 2024-07-25Awaiting agency response
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.

File your own records request

Anyone can request records from this municipality 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 Livingston Township 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 count is an undercount, by design. Requests to Livingston Township are sorted by subject line, because that custodian also handles permits, property, and code enforcement. A request that is genuinely about the police but carries a vague subject line, and many do read only “OPRA Request,” is not counted here. The sorting is this site's own reading of the request titles, not a fact from the source, and it is deliberately cautious: it would rather miss a police request than show you somebody's building permit.

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 Livingston Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Livingston Police Department, a municipal police agency in Essex County, reported 50 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 32 officers named in those cases. Its rate of 156.3 per 100 officers falls just under the Essex County median of 158.6 and well above the 125.9 statewide municipal median. A rate above the state median can reflect more misconduct or a department that documents more of its complaints. Of the 50 investigations detailed for 2025, 23 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, with Demeanor and Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation following. One major discipline record appears in the 2020-2025 releases, from 2020, with no terminations reported. Livingston received a B on the report card, at the 32nd percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Livingston Police Department reported 50 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 32 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Livingston Police Department have?

Livingston Police Department 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.

Does Livingston Police Department encrypt its radio communications?

According to PoliceRadioEncryption.com, Livingston Police Department encrypts all of its radio communications (P25 ADP), 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 Livingston Police Department have?

Livingston Police Department reported 69 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 8.7% of them female. That is 2.13 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 does Livingston Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 71 active Livingston Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $136,493. The median for the 647 TPAF-enrolled staff at LIVINGSTON BD OF ED is $97,874, a ratio of 1.39x. Against the Essex County school-staff median the ratio is 1.51x. 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. [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2220. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]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. ↩
  3. [3]Records-request activity for Livingston Township. 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. ↩
  4. [4]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Livingston PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  5. [5]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.
  6. [6]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8295. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
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  10. [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 190. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  11. [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1205. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  12. [12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1713. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  13. [13]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 697. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  14. [14]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2220. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  15. [15]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 Livingston PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
  16. [16]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 Livingston PD row for 2021. ↩
  17. [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 Livingston PD row for 2022. ↩
  18. [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 Livingston PD row for 2023. ↩
  19. [19]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 Livingston PD row for 2024. ↩
  20. [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 Livingston PD row for 2025. ↩
  21. [21]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8295. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  22. [22]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. ↩
  23. [23]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2839. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩