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North Bergen Police Department

Reported as: North Bergen PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to North Bergen Township on the New Jersey Civil Service Commission roster.

Read how the process works or the Title 4A glossary. Browse NJCSNavigator’s civil service jurisdiction directory for the full local-jurisdiction roster.

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

In brief

North Bergen Police Department logged 70 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 56 officers named in those cases, a rate of 125 per 100 officers. That is under the Hudson County median of 138.9 and just below the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Rate gaps are hard to read on their own, because they can track the amount of misconduct or how much of it a department puts in writing. Of the 70 investigations detailed for 2025, 35 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, followed by Neglect of Duty and Demeanor.

Ten major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. North Bergen PD received a C on the report card, at the 44th 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

56[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

70[1]

Incidents, 2025

50[1]

Major discipline records

10

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

131[8]

65 years reported

131 sworn officers in 2025, up from 101 in 1960 (+30%).
Yearsworn officers
1960101
196195
1962not reported
196395
196499
1965105
1966105
1967102
1968109
1969106
1970113
1971107
1972112
1973112
1974107
1975103
1976101
197794
197898
197998
198096
198195
198298
1983102
198490
198587
1986100
1987100
1988103
1989104
1990111
1991117
1992113
1993114
1994115
1995118
1996116
1997119
1998118
1999112
2000105
2001113
2002109
2003120
2004111
2005108
2006120
2007116
2008121
2009117
2010118
2011111
2012116
2013116
2014119
2015117
2016120
2017114
2018113
2019116
2020116
2021123
2022125
2023138
2024140
2025131

Civilian employees, 2025

12[9]

0.09 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

21[10]

16% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.14[11]

Municipal departments only

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

How North Bergen 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

North Bergen Police Department: 131 sworn officers: 72nd 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 128 active North Bergen Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$126,686[3]

128 active officers

Median local school staff

$90,542

NORTH BERGEN BD OF ED, 660 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.40x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.36x

Median officer to Hudson 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 "NORTH BERGEN 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 Hudson County pay page.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

North Bergen Police Department received 13 recorded line items with ship years from 2016 to 2026. The recorded total is $1,634,008 at original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value, and $1,576,968 of that sits in categories this site classes as tactical. Three categories carry nearly all of the value: Combat, assault, and tactical vehicles, wheeled at $658,000, Unmanned ground vehicles at $472,979 across five line items, and Surface use explosive ordnance disposal tools at $445,989 across three. This is a record of transfers received, not a current inventory, and non-controlled items may be disposed of after one year. Receiving surplus equipment through the program is not misconduct, and the federal data is separate in origin from the Attorney General discipline records on this page.

Surplus military equipment transferred to this agency under the Defense Department's 1033 program, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency.

Total recorded value

$1,634,008[2]

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$1,576,968[2]

9 of 13 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

2016-2026[2]

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 15 items (Each). Units of issue differ (an item and a kit are not the same thing), so no single combined item count exists.

Top categories by recorded value

Top 1033 equipment categories received by North Bergen Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Combat, assault, and tactical vehicles, wheeled658,000 tactical
Unmanned ground vehicles472,979 tactical
Surface use explosive ordnance disposal tools445,989 tactical
Armament training devices30,000 mundane
Trailers14,555 mundane
Clothing, special purpose9,185 mundane
Operation training devices3,300 mundane

Categories received: tactical vs mundane

Each category is classed tactical or mundane by this site's published classification of its Federal Supply Class. Much of what moves through the program is mundane surplus (tools, office and medical equipment); the tactical rows are what the Militarization Index below measures.

1033 equipment categories received by North Bergen Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
CategoryClassLine itemsQuantity receivedRecorded value (original cost)
Combat, assault, and tactical vehicles, wheeledArmored vehicles (MRAPs) · FSC 2355Tactical11 items (Each)$658,000
Unmanned ground vehiclesEOD robots and bomb-disposal equipment · FSC 2360Tactical55 items (Each)$472,979
Surface use explosive ordnance disposal toolsEOD robots and bomb-disposal equipment · FSC 1385Tactical33 items (Each)$445,989
Armament training devicesTraining equipment · FSC 6920Mundane11 items (Each)$30,000
TrailersUtility vehicles and parts · FSC 2330Mundane11 items (Each)$14,555
Clothing, special purposeClothing and gear · FSC 8415Mundane11 items (Each)$9,185
Operation training devicesTraining equipment · FSC 6930Mundane13 items (Each)$3,300

Every recorded transfer

Equipment class

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1033 program transfers recorded for North Bergen Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
ItemCategoryQtyRecorded valueOriginal DoD cost
TRAILERNSN 2330-DS-TRA-ILE1Shipped 2026-05-06 · DEMIL ATrailers Mundane1 Each$14,555
UNMANNED VEHICLE,GROUNDNSN 2360-01-603-3586Shipped 2022-07-11 · DEMIL QUnmanned ground vehicles Tactical1 Each$135,000
UNMANNED VEHICLE,GROUNDNSN 2360-01-642-2196Shipped 2022-03-16 · DEMIL QUnmanned ground vehicles Tactical1 Each$19,800
OPERATION TRAINING DEVICESNSN 6930-DS-OPS-TRNDShipped 2022-02-11 · DEMIL DOperation training devices Mundane3 Each$3,300
ROBOT,EODNSN 1385-01-578-5490Shipped 2022-02-08 · DEMIL QSurface use explosive ordnance disposal tools Tactical1 Each$213,686
TRAINING KIT,MARTIAL ARTSNSN 8415-01-566-4542Shipped 2022-02-08 · DEMIL QClothing, special purpose Mundane1 Each$9,185
AF MEDIUM ROBOT EODNSN 1385-01-591-7915Shipped 2022-01-20 · DEMIL QSurface use explosive ordnance disposal tools Tactical1 Each$231,603
UNMANNED VEHICLE,GROUNDNSN 2360-01-642-2196Shipped 2022-01-04 · DEMIL QUnmanned ground vehicles Tactical1 Each$19,800
UNMANNED VEHICLE,GROUNDNSN 2360-01-534-9828Shipped 2021-11-22 · DEMIL QUnmanned ground vehicles Tactical1 Each$221,319
ARMAMENT TRAINING DEVICESNSN 6920-DS-TRA-INE0Shipped 2021-01-26 · DEMIL DArmament training devices Mundane1 Each$30,000
TOOL AND EQUIPMENT KIT,EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSALNSN 1385-01-689-8197Shipped 2021-01-21 · DEMIL QSurface use explosive ordnance disposal tools Tactical1 Each$700
UNMANNED VEHICLE,GROUNDNSN 2360-01-663-1082Shipped 2021-01-06 · DEMIL QUnmanned ground vehicles Tactical1 Each$77,060
MINE RESISTANT VEHICLENSN 2355-01-553-4634Shipped 2016-10-27 · DEMIL CCombat, assault, and tactical vehicles, wheeled Tactical1 Each$658,000

13 of 13 recorded transfers shown. Quantities are per unit of issue and are never summed across units. DEMIL code A: non-controlled property, may be disposed of after one year (so a listed item is not necessarily still held). Codes such as C, D, F, and Q: controlled property with federal return or demilitarization requirements.

AnalysisMilitarization Index: computed by this site, not an official statistic.

North Bergen Police Department received $12,038 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 94th percentile among municipal police agencies of similar size (60+ officers, n=93).

Peer group: Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93)

Tactical 1033 value per sworn officer: Municipal police, 60+ officers
RangeAgencies
0–500076
5000–100009
10000–150005
15000–200002

North Bergen Police Department: 12,038 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 94th percentile among Municipal police, 60+ officers (n=93).

A higher index is not automatically worse. It divides cumulative transfers over the covered window by current staffing, so it measures how intensively an agency has participated in the program, not what it holds today. See the methodology.

Statewide totals, per-county rollups, and the top categories across all of New Jersey are on the 1033 program overview.

Internal affairs investigations by year

counts

Internal affairs investigations reported by North Bergen Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202135
202249
202373
202471
202570

Incidents

50 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by North Bergen Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202135
202241
202359
202453
202550

Officers on IA rows

70 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for North Bergen Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202470
202570
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 North Bergen Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202228.571
202330.137
202419.718
202550

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 70 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by North Bergen Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation28
Neglect of Duty8
Demeanor6
Theft5
Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation3
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency3
Improper Arrest3
Excessive Force3
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Neglect of Duty · Demeanor · Theft · Vehicular Pursuit Policy Violation · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency · Improper Arrest · Excessive Force

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by North Bergen Police Department, 2025
Sustained35
not provided18
Exonerated11
Not Sustained4
Unfounded1
Administratively Closed1

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

110 of 298

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by North Bergen Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202124
202211
202324
202423
202528

Demeanor

65 of 298

Demeanor allegations reported by North Bergen Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20216
202211
202320
202422
20256

Neglect of Duty

24 of 298

Neglect of Duty allegations reported by North Bergen Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20228
20235
20243
20258

Theft

14 of 298

Theft allegations reported by North Bergen Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20220
20234
20245
20255

Other (19 categories)

85 of 298

Other (19 categories) allegations reported by North Bergen Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20215
202219
202320
202418
202523

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
North Bergen Police Department125.0
County median, municipal police (13)138.9
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.

70 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 131 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[23] = 53.4 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 C: Middle fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing
44th percentile of 93 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across North Bergen 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

North Bergen Police Department: 38.961 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 60th 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%

41st percentileof 93 peers

128.4 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%

60th percentileof 93 peers

39.0 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%

37th percentileof 93 peers

1.91 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.[24] How each metric is defined.
This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
MetricValueRank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025125.0226th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20257024th of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20255026th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-20251023rd of 282 municipal police
Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30$12,03820th of 163 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year2.14283rd of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.36x228th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present6621st of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

6 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20211
20220
20231
20242
20256

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

Major discipline records reported by North Bergen Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2025Otoniel CruzLieutenantSuspended 30 days[25]
2025Otoniel CruzLieutenantSuspended 8 days[26]
2025Otoniel CruzLieutenantSuspended 10 days[27]
2025Christopher OrellanaDetectiveOther sanction[28]
2025Rasheed SiyamPatrolmanOther sanction[29]
2025Rasheed SiyamPatrolmanSuspended 10 days[30]
2024Roberto GonzalezPolice OfficerSeparated while IA pending[31]
2024Frank MenaDetectiveSuspended 10 days[32]
2023Roberto GonzalezOfficerSuspended (days not reported)[33]
2021Edward MoyanoLieutenantSuspended 10 days[34]

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

Fatal encounters recorded involving this agency

From the independent Fatal Encounters dataset, 2000-2021

In brief (written by this site from the records below)

Four records in the Fatal Encounters dataset name North Bergen Police Department, spanning 2005 through 2018. The force labels, as recorded by the project, are Gunshot in four of them. Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, deaths in police presence, and medical emergencies. A record is not a finding of fault against the agency or any officer, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records elsewhere on this page. The project stopped collecting in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen and nothing after that date appears here.

Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.[4] It records all deaths that occurred during a police encounter of any kind: vehicle pursuits, suicides in police presence, and medical emergencies are included alongside uses of force. A record appears here because North Bergen Police Departmentis named in the record's as-reported agency field. A listing is not a misconduct finding, and it is not connected to the Attorney General discipline records above. See the methodology. Each record links to its own page with the full as-reported details.

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.[5] 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 North Bergen Township, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 66 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 275 filed to North Bergen Township are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

66[5]

Identified by subject line, of 341 filed to North Bergen Township

Most recent request

July 2026[5]

First recorded October 2018

Awaiting a response

36[5]

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 North Bergen Township (requests)
Awaiting agency response36
Requester reported success13
Requester reported partial success8
Request refused3
Flagged for attention3
Response sent by post2
Agency said records not held1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to North Bergen 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. 2026-07-09Awaiting agency response
  2. 2026-07-01Awaiting agency response
  3. 2026-04-30Awaiting agency response
  4. 2026-04-20Awaiting agency response
  5. 2026-04-15Awaiting agency response
  6. 2026-03-18Requester reported success
  7. 2026-03-04Requester reported partial success
  8. 2026-02-24Requester reported success
  9. 2026-02-03Requester reported success
  10. 2026-02-03Requester reported success
  11. 2026-01-26Requester reported success
  12. 2026-01-17Awaiting 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 North Bergen 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 North Bergen 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 North Bergen Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

North Bergen Police Department logged 70 internal affairs investigations in 2025 involving 56 officers named in those cases, a rate of 125 per 100 officers. That is under the Hudson County median of 138.9 and just below the 125.9 statewide municipal median. Rate gaps are hard to read on their own, because they can track the amount of misconduct or how much of it a department puts in writing. Of the 70 investigations detailed for 2025, 35 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation was the leading allegation category, followed by Neglect of Duty and Demeanor. Ten major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. North Bergen PD received a C on the report card, at the 44th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

North Bergen Police Department reported 70 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 56 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does North Bergen Police Department have?

North Bergen Police Department has 10 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 North Bergen Police Department have?

North Bergen Police Department reported 131 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 16% of them female. That is 2.14 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 military surplus equipment has North Bergen Police Department received through the 1033 program?

North Bergen Police Department received 13 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program between 2016 and 2026, with a total recorded value of $1,634,008 (original DoD acquisition cost, not current or market value). The largest category by recorded value was: Combat, assault, and tactical vehicles, wheeled. Transfers are as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency as of 2026-06-30; equipment acquired through the program is not necessarily still held.

What is the total recorded value of the 1033 equipment North Bergen Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for North Bergen Police Department under the 1033 program totals $1,634,008 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $1,576,968 is in categories this site classes as tactical (9 of 13 line items). These are original-cost figures at the time of transfer, not current or market value.

How many deaths during police encounters are recorded for North Bergen Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 4 records naming North Bergen Police Department, from 2005 through 2018. Fatal Encounters is a crowdsourced journalism project, not a government source, and it documented deaths that occurred during police encounters of any kind. Each record links to a page showing it exactly as the project recorded it.

What does North Bergen Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 128 active North Bergen Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $126,686. The median for the 660 TPAF-enrolled staff at NORTH BERGEN BD OF ED is $90,542, a ratio of 1.40x. Against the Hudson County school-staff median the ratio is 1.36x. 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 2265. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  2. [2]DoD 1033 Program transfers (LESO Public Information), New Jersey sheet. Defense Logistics Agency (U.S. Department of Defense). LESO Public Information: DISP_AllStatesAndTerritories, quarterly file as of 2026-06-30; recorded ship dates 1993-2026. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://www.dla.mil/Disposition-Services/Offers/Law-Enforcement/Public-Information/ ↩
  3. [3]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. ↩
  4. [4]Fatal Encounters, New Jersey subset. Fatal Encounters (fatalencounters.org). Fatal Encounters national dataset (2000-2021); collection ended December 2021. Retrieved 2026-07-10. https://fatalencounters.org/ ↩
  5. [5]Records-request activity for North Bergen 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. ↩
  6. [6]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every North Bergen PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
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  24. [24]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. ↩
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