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Passaic Police Department

Reported as: Passaic PDMunicipal police

Jurisdiction context

Civil service jurisdiction

Discipline at this department is governed by the Title 4A civil service framework, matched to Passaic City 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

Passaic Police Department logged 77 internal affairs investigations in 2025, with 47 officers named in those cases. At 163.8 investigations per 100 officers, the city force ran well above the Passaic County median of 125 and the 125.9 statewide municipal median, a spread that can point to more misconduct or to a department that records complaints its peers do not. Of the 77 investigations detailed for 2025, 30 reported sustained complaints. Preventable MV Accident was the leading allegation category, followed by Demeanor and Other Departmental Rule Violation.

Nine major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Passaic received a D on the report card, at the 68th 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

47[1]

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

IA investigations, 2025

77[1]

Incidents, 2025

73[1]

Major discipline records

9

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

153[8]

66 years reported

153 sworn officers in 2025, up from 123 in 1960 (+24%).
Yearsworn officers
1960123
1961122
1962114
1963121
1964119
1965120
1966114
1967116
1968123
1969121
1970133
1971126
1972134
1973126
1974151
1975149
1976155
1977160
1978161
1979155
1980156
1981151
1982148
1983144
1984145
1985152
1986146
1987146
1988130
1989138
1990133
1991135
1992139
1993136
1994147
1995146
1996149
1997144
1998149
1999155
2000164
2001164
2002156
2003179
2004164
2005179
2006189
2007189
2008194
2009189
2010163
2011159
2012146
2013152
2014158
2015151
2016154
2017156
2018165
2019160
2020159
2021164
2022160
2023152
2024346
2025153

Civilian employees, 2025

45[9]

0.29 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

19[10]

12.4% of sworn officers

Officers per 1,000 residents, 2025

2.16[11]

Municipal departments only

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

How Passaic 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

Passaic Police Department: 153 sworn officers: 83rd 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 149 active Passaic Police Department officers in the file.

Median officer salary

$130,512[3]

149 active officers

Median local school staff

$108,618

PASSAIC BOARD OF EDUCATION, 1,130 TPAF members

Against the local district

1.20x

Median officer to median local school staff

Against the county

1.45x

Median officer to Passaic 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 "PASSAIC BOARD OF EDUCATION", 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 Passaic County pay page.

Military surplus equipment (1033 program)

In brief

Written by this site from the figures below.

Passaic Police Department received 11 recorded line items between 2003 and 2019, recorded at $304,990 in original Department of Defense acquisition cost rather than current or market value and entirely in categories this site classes as tactical. A single entry in Combat, assault, and tactical vehicles, wheeled accounts for $300,000 of that, and 10 items of Guns, through 30mm for the remaining $4,990. The file records what the department 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 this federal data is separate in origin from the Attorney General discipline records.

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

Total recorded value

$304,990[2]

Original DoD cost, not market value

Tactical equipment value

$304,990[2]

11 of 11 line items classed tactical

Transfer window

2003-2019[2]

Earliest to latest recorded ship date

Quantities received, by unit of issue: 11 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 Passaic Police Department, by recorded value (original DoD acquisition cost, dollars)
Combat, assault, and tactical vehicles, wheeled300,000 tactical
Guns, through 30mm4,990 tactical

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 Passaic Police Department, grouped tactical vs mundane
CategoryClassLine itemsQuantity receivedRecorded value (original cost)
Combat, assault, and tactical vehicles, wheeledArmored vehicles (MRAPs) · FSC 2355Tactical11 items (Each)$300,000
Guns, through 30mmWeapons · FSC 1005Tactical1010 items (Each)$4,990

Every recorded transfer

Equipment class

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1033 program transfers recorded for Passaic Police Department, as recorded by the Defense Logistics Agency
ItemCategoryQtyRecorded valueOriginal DoD cost
MINE RESISTANT VEHICLENSN 2355-01-529-2246Shipped 2019-06-28 · DEMIL CCombat, assault, and tactical vehicles, wheeled Tactical1 Each$300,000
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-11-12 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-11-12 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-11-12 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-11-12 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-11-12 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-11-12 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-11-12 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-11-12 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-11-12 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499
RIFLE,5.56 MILLIMETERNSN 1005-00-073-9421Shipped 2003-11-12 · DEMIL DGuns, through 30mm Tactical1 Each$499

11 of 11 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.

Passaic Police Department received $1,993 of tactical 1033 equipment value per sworn officer (original cost, divided by its latest FBI-reported staffing): the 75th 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
0–500075
5000–100009
10000–150006
15000–200002

Passaic Police Department: 1,993 dollars of tactical 1033 acquisition value per sworn officer: 75th 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 Passaic Police Department, by year
Categorycounts
202185
202286
202387
202479
202577

Incidents

73 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Passaic Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202177
202279
202377
202469
202573

Officers on IA rows

76 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Passaic Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
2021not reported
2022not reported
2023not reported
202477
202576
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 Passaic Police Department, by year
Yearshare of total
20210
202212.791
202318.391
202427.848
202538.961

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 76 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Passaic Police Department, 2025
Preventable MV Accident23
Demeanor18
Other Departmental Rule Violation11
Excessive Force5
Differential Treatment4
Improper Arrest4
Improper Search2
Improper Entry2
AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Preventable MV Accident · Demeanor · Other Departmental Rule Violation · Excessive Force · Differential Treatment · Improper Arrest · Improper Search · Improper Entry

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Passaic Police Department, 2025
Sustained30
Exonerated26
not provided9
Not Sustained6
Unfounded3
Administratively Closed3

Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Demeanor

137 of 414

Demeanor allegations reported by Passaic Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202132
202228
202331
202428
202518

Other Departmental Rule Violation

85 of 414

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Passaic Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
202143
202219
20235
20247
202511

Preventable MV Accident

62 of 414

Preventable MV Accident allegations reported by Passaic Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20210
20228
202314
202417
202523

Excessive Force

30 of 414

Excessive Force allegations reported by Passaic Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20214
20224
20235
202412
20255

Other (22 categories)

100 of 414

Other (22 categories) allegations reported by Passaic Police Department, by year
Yearcounts
20216
202227
202332
202415
202520

Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Passaic Police Department163.8
County median, municipal police (17)125.0
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.

77 investigations reported for 2025[1] ÷ 153 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025[23] = 50.3 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
68th percentile of 93 peers
Confidence
High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Passaic 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

Passaic Police Department: 32.491 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 49th 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%

76th percentileof 93 peers

150.8 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%

49th percentileof 93 peers

32.5 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%

42nd percentileof 93 peers

1.98 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 officers2025163.869th of 445 municipal police
IA investigations20257721st of 445 municipal police
IA incidents20257318th of 445 municipal police
Major discipline2020-2025927th of 282 municipal police
Militarization Indexas of 2026-06-30$1,99385th of 163 municipal police
Sworn per 1,000 residentslatest reported census year2.16277th of 460 municipal police
Police pay vs school paypension snapshot 2026-03-311.45x168th of 415 municipal police
OPRA requests recordedOPRAmachine, 2017 to present25126th of 458 municipal police

Major discipline records

4 major discipline records in 2025, up from 0 in 2020.
Yearmajor discipline records
20200
20213
20220
20231
20241
20254

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

Major discipline records reported by Passaic Police Department, 2020-2025
YearOfficerRankSanction as reportedSrc
2025Junior CuevasOfficerSuspended 0 days[25]
2025Junior CuevasOfficerSuspended 180 days[26]
2025Junior CuevasOfficerSuspended 30 days[27]
2025Edgar DelgardoOfficerSuspended 1,224 daysSeparated while IA pending[28]
2024Edgar DelgadoOfficerSuspended 886 days[29]
2023Edgar DelgadoOfficerSuspended (days not reported)[30]
2021Claudia Aguirre-CruzLieutenantSuspended 14 days[31]
2021Annette GuzmanOfficerSuspended 25 days[32]
2021Amilcar LopezOfficerSuspended 28 days[33]

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 Passaic Police Department, in years from 2006 through 2019. The as-recorded level of force is listed as Gunshot in three of them and Vehicle in one. Fatal Encounters was an independent, crowdsourced journalism project that logged deaths occurring during police encounters of any kind, including vehicle pursuits and crashes, deaths by suicide in police presence, and medical emergencies. A record is not a finding of fault, and it does not say police caused the death. The project stopped collecting in December 2021, so the dataset is frozen there.

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 Passaic 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.

  • Randy Sanchez

    January 31, 2019 · Passaic · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

  • Michael Gabriele

    January 28, 2014 · Passaic · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

  • Nathan N. Ferrer

    March 1, 2010 · Clifton · Highest level of force as recorded: Vehicle

  • Juan Flores Palasios

    April 12, 2006 · Passaic · Highest level of force as recorded: Gunshot

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 Passaic City, the municipal records custodian, which also fields requests about permits, property, and code enforcement. Only the 25 requests whose subject line indicates it concerns the police department are counted below. The other 181 filed to Passaic City are about something else and are not shown.

Police-related requests

25[5]

Identified by subject line, of 206 filed to Passaic City

Most recent request

May 2026[5]

First recorded October 2019

Awaiting a response

17[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 Passaic City (requests)
Awaiting agency response17
Requester reported partial success5
Requester reported success2
Request refused1

Recent requests

The 12 most recent police-related requests to Passaic City, 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. 2026-05-09Awaiting agency response
  2. 2025-12-30Awaiting agency response
  3. 2025-09-15Awaiting agency response
  4. 2025-01-22Request refused
  5. 2024-11-05Requester reported partial success
  6. 2024-10-20Requester reported success
  7. 2024-10-01Awaiting agency response
  8. 2024-08-31Requester reported success
  9. 2024-08-30Awaiting agency response
  10. 2024-08-29Awaiting agency response
  11. 2024-04-15Requester reported partial success
  12. 2024-04-15Requester reported partial 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 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 Passaic City 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 Passaic City 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 Passaic Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Passaic Police Department logged 77 internal affairs investigations in 2025, with 47 officers named in those cases. At 163.8 investigations per 100 officers, the city force ran well above the Passaic County median of 125 and the 125.9 statewide municipal median, a spread that can point to more misconduct or to a department that records complaints its peers do not. Of the 77 investigations detailed for 2025, 30 reported sustained complaints. Preventable MV Accident was the leading allegation category, followed by Demeanor and Other Departmental Rule Violation. Nine major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. Passaic received a D on the report card, at the 68th percentile among 93 peers in the 60+ officers group, a high-confidence grade.

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

Passaic Police Department reported 77 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 47 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Passaic Police Department have?

Passaic Police Department has 9 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 Police Department have?

Passaic Police Department reported 153 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 12.4% of them female. That is 2.16 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 Passaic Police Department received through the 1033 program?

Passaic Police Department received 11 recorded line items of surplus military equipment through the Defense Department's 1033 program between 2003 and 2019, with a total recorded value of $304,990 (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 Passaic Police Department received?

The surplus equipment recorded for Passaic Police Department under the 1033 program totals $304,990 in original DoD acquisition cost, of which $304,990 is in categories this site classes as tactical (11 of 11 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 Passaic Police Department?

The independent Fatal Encounters dataset contains 4 records naming Passaic Police Department, from 2006 through 2019. 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 Passaic Police Department pay its officers compared with local school staff?

The median pensionable salary for the 149 active Passaic Police Department officers in the NJ Treasury pension file is $130,512. The median for the 1,130 TPAF-enrolled staff at PASSAIC BOARD OF EDUCATION is $108,618, a ratio of 1.20x. Against the Passaic County school-staff median the ratio is 1.45x. 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 2453. 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 Passaic City. 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 Passaic PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
  7. [7]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.
  8. [8]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8545. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
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  17. [17]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 PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
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  19. [19]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 PD row for 2022. ↩
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  22. [22]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 PD row for 2025. ↩
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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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