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Montclair State University Police Department

Reported as: Montclair State 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.

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

2[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

3[1]

Incidents, 2025

3[1]

Major discipline records

2

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

34[5]

21 years reported

34 sworn officers in 2025, up from 11 in 1996 (+209%).
Yearsworn officers
199611
199711
199811
1999not reported
2000not reported
2001not reported
2002not reported
2003not reported
2004not reported
2005not reported
2006not reported
2007not reported
200831
200932
201033
201136
201236
201335
201437
201537
201637
201733
201837
201938
202038
202133
202233
202334
202434
202534

Civilian employees, 2025

8[6]

0.24 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

7[7]

20.6% of sworn officers

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

How Montclair State 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, 30-59 officers (n=111)

Sworn officers: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
RangeAgencies
30–3537
35–4027
40–4516
45–5014
50–5510
55–607

Montclair State University Police Department: 34 sworn officers: 29th percentile among Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=111).

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 Montclair State 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 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 Montclair State University Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
20214
20231
202418
20253

Incidents

3 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Montclair State University Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20212
20231
20246
20253

Officers on IA rows

3 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Montclair State University Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2023not reported
202418
20253
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 · 4 reported years

Share of internal affairs investigations sustained by Montclair State University Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
20230
20245.556
20250

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 3 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Montclair State University Police Department, 2025
Demeanor3
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Demeanor

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Montclair State University Police Department, 2025
Exonerated2
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

17 of 26

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Montclair State University Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
2022not reported
20230
202413
20250

Demeanor

4 of 26

Demeanor allegations reported by Montclair State University Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
2022not reported
20231
20240
20253

Assault

3 of 26

Assault allegations reported by Montclair State University Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
2022not reported
20230
20243
20250

Differential Treatment

1 of 26

Differential Treatment allegations reported by Montclair State University Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
2022not reported
20230
20241
20250

Other Criminal Violation

1 of 26

Other Criminal Violation allegations reported by Montclair State University Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
2022not reported
20230
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)
Montclair State University Police Department150.0
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.

3 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 34 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[17] = 8.8 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 C: Middle fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
58th percentile of 110 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 Montclair State 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, 30-59 officers (n=110)

Discipline severity: Municipal police, 30-59 officers
RangeAgencies
0–5073
50–10025
100–1504
150–2006
200–2501
250–3001

Montclair State University Police Department: 80 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 85th percentile among Municipal police, 30-59 officers (n=110).

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%

46th percentileof 110 peers

122.1 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%

85th percentileof 110 peers

80.0 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 110 peers

1.69 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.[18] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025150.098th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20253348th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20253333rd of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20252127th of 282 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present8446th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20211
20220
20230
20241
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by Montclair State University Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2024Christopher AngstSergeantSuspended 277 daysSeparated while IA pending[19]
2021Amanda RusticusPatrol OfficerSuspended 30 days[20]

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.[2] 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.

Police-related requests

8[2]

Every request filed to this department

Most recent request

October 2025[2]

First recorded February 2020

Awaiting a response

6[2]

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 records requests to Montclair State University Police (requests)
Awaiting agency response6
Requester reported success2

Recent requests

The 8 most recent requests to Montclair State University Police, 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. 2025-10-22Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-05-06Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-04-29Awaiting agency response
  4. 2024-07-31Awaiting agency response
  5. 2022-03-09Requester reported success
  6. 2020-12-05Awaiting agency response
  7. 2020-10-08Awaiting agency response
  8. 2020-02-14Requester reported success
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 department 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 Montclair State University Police 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 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

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

Montclair State University Police Department reported 3 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 2 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Montclair State University Police Department have?

Montclair State University Police Department has 2 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 Montclair State University Police Department have?

Montclair State University Police Department reported 34 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 20.6% 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 2449. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]Records-request activity for Montclair State University Police. 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. ↩
  3. [3]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Montclair State University PD 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 8308. 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 8308. 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 8308. 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 194. 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 1717. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  10. [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 913. 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 2449. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  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 Montclair State University PD 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 Montclair State University PD 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 Montclair State University PD row for 2023. ↩
  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 Montclair State University PD row for 2024. ↩
  16. [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 Montclair State University PD row for 2025. ↩
  17. [17]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8308. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
  18. [18]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. ↩
  19. [19]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1068. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
  20. [20]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2544. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩