Department profile · Passaic County
Passaic County Prosecutor's Office
Reported as: Passaic Co Prosecutors OfficeCounty prosecutor
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.
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In brief
Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, a county prosecutor agency, named 7 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 9 investigations. Its rate of 128.6 per 100 officers matched the Passaic County median of 128.6 and ran above the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies. A figure higher than peer agencies can mean more misconduct or simply more complete complaint records. None of the 9 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Demeanor was the leading allegation category, with Other Departmental Rule Violation next.
One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. The office received a D on the report card, at the 79th percentile among 21 peers in the group of all prosecutor agencies, 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
9[1]
Incidents, 2025
7[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
70[6]
50 years reported
| Year | sworn officers |
|---|---|
| 1976 | 95 |
| 1977 | 103 |
| 1978 | 107 |
| 1979 | 109 |
| 1980 | 88 |
| 1981 | 57 |
| 1982 | 96 |
| 1983 | 96 |
| 1984 | 89 |
| 1985 | 89 |
| 1986 | 91 |
| 1987 | 91 |
| 1988 | 94 |
| 1989 | 117 |
| 1990 | 126 |
| 1991 | 127 |
| 1992 | 79 |
| 1993 | 79 |
| 1994 | 75 |
| 1995 | 70 |
| 1996 | 77 |
| 1997 | 77 |
| 1998 | 80 |
| 1999 | 84 |
| 2000 | 85 |
| 2001 | 83 |
| 2002 | 81 |
| 2003 | 86 |
| 2004 | 91 |
| 2005 | 89 |
| 2006 | 89 |
| 2007 | 93 |
| 2008 | 82 |
| 2009 | 82 |
| 2010 | 78 |
| 2011 | 76 |
| 2012 | 77 |
| 2013 | 76 |
| 2014 | 78 |
| 2015 | 124 |
| 2016 | 77 |
| 2017 | 74 |
| 2018 | 73 |
| 2019 | 76 |
| 2020 | 77 |
| 2021 | 73 |
| 2022 | 75 |
| 2023 | 70 |
| 2024 | 69 |
| 2025 | 70 |
How Passaic County Prosecutor's Office's sworn staffing compares with its real peer group (same agency type, similar size band), not an assumed bell curve.
Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–50 | 9 |
| 50–100 | 8 |
| 100–150 | 3 |
Passaic County Prosecutor's Office: 70 sworn officers: 64th percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=20).
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
counts
| Category | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 9 |
| 2023 | 19 |
| 2024 | 18 |
| 2025 | 9 |
Incidents
7 in 2025
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 8 |
| 2023 | 14 |
| 2024 | 10 |
| 2025 | 7 |
Officers on IA rows
9 in 2025
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | not reported |
| 2022 | not reported |
| 2023 | not reported |
| 2024 | 18 |
| 2025 | 9 |
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
| Year | share of total |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 15.789 |
| 2024 | 5.556 |
| 2025 | 0 |
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 9 officers involved.
Most serious allegation
| Demeanor | 5 |
|---|---|
| Other Departmental Rule Violation | 3 |
| not provided | 1 |
Statewide category pages: Demeanor · Other Departmental Rule Violation
Internal disposition
| not provided | 5 |
|---|---|
| Not Sustained | 3 |
| Unfounded | 1 |
Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025
Demeanor
17 of 60
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 8 |
| 2025 | 5 |
Other Departmental Rule Violation
17 of 60
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2025 | 3 |
Improper Arrest
13 of 60
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 5 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Excessive Force
5 of 60
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 0 |
Other (4 categories)
8 of 60
| Year | counts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 3 |
| 2024 | 3 |
| 2025 | 1 |
Against peers, 2025
How this grade was built →| Passaic County Prosecutor's Office | 128.6 |
|---|---|
| County median, county prosecutor (1) | 128.6 |
| NJ median, county prosecutor (21) | 107.5 |
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.
9 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 70 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[20] = 12.9 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 D: Second-highest fifth
On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology
- Combined standing
- 79th percentile of 21 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 Passaic County Prosecutor's Office's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.
Peer group: County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=21)
| Range | Agencies |
|---|---|
| 0–100 | 16 |
| 100–200 | 2 |
| 200–300 | 2 |
| 300–400 | 1 |
Passaic County Prosecutor's Office: 19.608 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 50th percentile among County prosecutor, all prosecutor agencies (n=21).
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%
121.0 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%
19.6 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%
2.21 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
| Metric | Value | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| IA per 100 investigated officers2025 | 128.6 | 7th of 21 county prosecutor |
| IA investigations2025 | 9 | 11th of 21 county prosecutor |
| IA incidents2025 | 7 | 10th of 21 county prosecutor |
| Major discipline2020-2025 | 1 | 11th of 16 county prosecutor |
| OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present | 33 | 10th of 15 county prosecutor |
Major discipline records
| Year | major discipline records |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 |
| 2021 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| 2025 | 1 |
1 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.
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)
One record in the Fatal Encounters dataset names the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, from 2002. The as-recorded force label on that record is Vehicle. Fatal Encounters was an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that documented deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits, medical emergencies, and suicides in police presence. A record is not a finding of fault, and it does not say police caused the death. Collection ended in December 2021, so the dataset holds nothing after that date.
Fatal Encounters is an independent, crowdsourced dataset that documented deaths during police encounters nationwide from 2000 until its collection ended in December 2021.[2] 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 Passaic County Prosecutor's Officeis 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.
- Detrick Barker
July 10, 2002 · Paterson · Highest level of force as recorded: Vehicle
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.
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.
| Awaiting agency response | 13 |
|---|---|
| Requester reported success | 9 |
| Agency said records not held | 3 |
| Delivery error | 2 |
| Awaiting clarification | 2 |
| Flagged for attention | 1 |
| Under internal review | 1 |
| Withdrawn by requester | 1 |
| Requester reported partial success | 1 |
Recent requests
The 12 most recent requests to Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, 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.
- 2026-06-09Awaiting agency response
- 2026-03-30Awaiting agency response
- 2025-11-18Delivery error
- 2025-09-10Awaiting agency response
- 2025-05-23Agency said records not held
- 2025-03-19Awaiting agency response
- 2025-01-08Awaiting agency response
- 2024-12-11Awaiting agency response
- 2024-07-01Flagged for attention
- 2023-10-14Agency said records not held
- 2023-08-03Requester reported success
- 2023-08-02Requester 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.
A member of the public requested: “Reports & Indictment”
2026-06-09 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “2022 Arson & Fire Investigation Policy Document”
2026-03-30 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Employment Records”
2025-11-18 · Delivery error
A member of the public requested: “Axon/Taser International Invoices/ Purchase Orders”
2025-09-10 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “New Jersey Open Public Records Act, I am requesting body-worn camera footage”
2025-05-23 · Agency said records not held
A member of the public requested: “Records of my conviction and Records of when I was incarcerated at A.D.T.C.”
2025-03-19 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “29 Ladwik Lane, Clifton, New Jersey, 07013,”
2025-01-08 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Seeking affidavit/criminal complaint for arrest of Meghan Hornidge of River Edge, NJ”
2024-12-11 · Awaiting agency response
A member of the public requested: “Gorman v. Kaplan - MVA West Milford, PD case #23-34277”
2024-07-01 · Flagged for attention
A member of the public requested: “National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Cyber-Tips and Arrests”
2023-10-14 · Agency said records not held
A member of the public requested: “Bid Tabulation for 2023 County of Passaic Road Resurfacing Program”
2023-08-03 · Requester reported success
A member of the public requested: “Bid Tabulation for Garret Mountain Reservation Parking Lots & Interior Driveways Project”
2023-08-02 · Requester reported success
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 Passaic County Prosecutor's Office 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
What is a summary of Passaic County Prosecutor's Office's internal affairs and discipline record?
Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, a county prosecutor agency, named 7 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 9 investigations. Its rate of 128.6 per 100 officers matched the Passaic County median of 128.6 and ran above the 107.5 median for prosecutor agencies. A figure higher than peer agencies can mean more misconduct or simply more complete complaint records. None of the 9 investigations detailed for 2025 reported sustained complaints. Demeanor was the leading allegation category, with Other Departmental Rule Violation next. One major discipline record appears across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. The office received a D on the report card, at the 79th percentile among 21 peers in the group of all prosecutor agencies, a medium-confidence grade.
How many internal affairs investigations did Passaic County Prosecutor's Office report in 2025?
Passaic County Prosecutor's Office reported 9 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 Passaic County Prosecutor's Office have?
Passaic County Prosecutor's Office 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.
How many officers does Passaic County Prosecutor's Office have?
Passaic County Prosecutor's Office reported 70 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 32.9% 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.
How many deaths during police encounters are recorded for Passaic County Prosecutor's Office?
The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 1 record naming Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, from 2002 through 2002. 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.
Sources
- [1]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2451. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [2]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/ ↩
- [3]Records-request activity for Passaic County Prosecutor's Office. 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]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Passaic Co Prosecutors Office row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [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]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8556. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [7]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8556. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [8]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8556. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [9]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 412. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1432. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [11]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1940. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [12]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 915. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [13]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2451. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
- [14]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 Passaic Co Prosecutors Office row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
- [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 Passaic Co Prosecutors Office row for 2021. ↩
- [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 Passaic Co Prosecutors Office row for 2022. ↩
- [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 Passaic Co Prosecutors Office row for 2023. ↩
- [18]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 Passaic Co Prosecutors Office row for 2024. ↩
- [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 Passaic Co Prosecutors Office row for 2025. ↩
- [20]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8556. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
- [21]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. ↩
- [22]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 504. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩