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New Jersey Institute Of Technology

Reported as: New Jersey Institute Of TechnologyOther agency

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

New Jersey Institute Of Technology, classified as an other agency in Essex County, reported 23 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 13 officers named in those cases. Its rate of 176.9 per 100 officers matched the Essex County median of 176.9 and ran above the 121.6 median for other agencies. A rate at that level can indicate more misconduct or a force that documents its complaints more completely. Of the 23 investigations detailed for 2025, 9 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led with 7 cases, followed by Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency at 5 and Demeanor at 3.

Five major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022 and 2023, none of them terminations. The site does not grade New Jersey Institute Of Technology, because it has too few peers: only 6 agencies sit in its group of all other agencies.

Written by this site strictly from the figures on this page; every number is cited below.

Officers named in IA cases, 2025

13[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

23[1]

Incidents, 2025

19[1]

Major discipline records

5

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

40[3]

18 years reported

40 sworn officers in 2025, up from 28 in 2008 (+43%).
Yearsworn officers
200828
200929
201029
201131
201230
201330
201433
201539
201633
201733
201837
201941
202041
202140
202236
202334
202439
202540

Civilian employees, 2025

40[4]

1 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

11[5]

27.5% of sworn officers

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

82021162022222023242024232025
Internal affairs investigations reported by New Jersey Institute Of Technology, by year
Internal affairs investigations reported by New Jersey Institute Of Technology, by year
20212022202320242025
816222423

Complaint mix, 2025

Most serious allegation per investigation, as categorized by the reporting agency. Officer-level rows list 22 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by New Jersey Institute Of Technology, 2025
Most serious allegations reported by New Jersey Institute Of Technology, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation7
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency5
Demeanor3
Neglect of Duty3
Other Criminal Violation3
Excessive Force1
Loss Of Or Failure To Safeguard Agency Propert1
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by New Jersey Institute Of Technology, 2025
Internal dispositions reported by New Jersey Institute Of Technology, 2025
Exonerated8
Sustained8
Not Sustained4
not provided3
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY176.9COUNTY MEDIAN, OTHER AGENCY (1)176.9NJ MEDIAN, OTHER AGENCY (4)121.6
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
New Jersey Institute Of Technology176.9
County median, other agency (1)176.9
NJ median, other agency (4)121.6

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.

23 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 40 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[12] = 57.5 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

Not graded: too few peers

Fewer than 8 comparable agencies (all other agencies); a percentile grade would be noise.

Confidence
Medium confidence
  • small agency; per-officer rates swing widely on a handful of cases

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%

not computable

133.2 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%

not computable

79.7 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%

not computable

2.38 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.

Major discipline records

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20210
20223
20232
20240
20250

0 major discipline records in 2025, holding roughly steady.

Major discipline records reported by New Jersey Institute Of Technology, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2023Charles KimSERGEANTSuspended 60 days[13]
2023Michael CapanoP.O.Suspended 30 daysSeparated while IA pending[14]
2022Michael CapanoPOSuspended 28 days[15]
2022Joseph QuinnSGTSuspended 10 days[16]
2022Ruben CortesPODemoted[17]

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 New Jersey Institute Of Technology's internal affairs and discipline record?

New Jersey Institute Of Technology, classified as an other agency in Essex County, reported 23 internal affairs investigations in 2025 and 13 officers named in those cases. Its rate of 176.9 per 100 officers matched the Essex County median of 176.9 and ran above the 121.6 median for other agencies. A rate at that level can indicate more misconduct or a force that documents its complaints more completely. Of the 23 investigations detailed for 2025, 9 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led with 7 cases, followed by Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency at 5 and Demeanor at 3. Five major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2022 and 2023, none of them terminations. The site does not grade New Jersey Institute Of Technology, because it has too few peers: only 6 agencies sit in its group of all other agencies.

How many internal affairs investigations did New Jersey Institute Of Technology report in 2025?

New Jersey Institute Of Technology reported 23 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 13 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does New Jersey Institute Of Technology have?

New Jersey Institute Of Technology 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 New Jersey Institute Of Technology have?

New Jersey Institute Of Technology reported 40 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 27.5% 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 2224. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09.
  2. [2]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.
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8307. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/.
  4. [4]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8307. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/.
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  7. [7]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1209. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09.
  8. [8]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1718. 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 701. 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 2224. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09.
  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 New Jersey Institute Of Technology row for 2025; row 1 is the header.
  12. [12]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8307. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/.
  13. [13]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1661. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  14. [14]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1662. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  15. [15]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2157. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  16. [16]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2158. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.
  17. [17]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2159. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03.