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Rutgers University Police Department

Reported as: Rutgers University PDState 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

Rutgers University Police Department is a state agency. It named 37 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 78 investigations, a rate of 210.8 per 100 officers, well above the 130.7 median for state agencies. A rate at that level can reflect a heavier volume of misconduct or a department that documents far more of the complaints brought to it. Of the 78 investigations detailed for 2025, 13 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, followed by Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency and Other Criminal Violation. Allegations are not findings.

Eight major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, including one termination. Rutgers University received an F on the report card, at the 85th percentile among 10 peers in the all state agencies band, 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

37^{^[1]}

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

IA investigations, 2025

78^{^[1]}

Incidents, 2025

31^{^[1]}

Major discipline records

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

77^{^[3]}

21 years reported

77 sworn officers in 2025, up from 19 in 1996 (+305%).
Year	sworn officers
1996	19
1997	20
1998	20
1999	not reported
2000	not reported
2001	not reported
2002	not reported
2003	not reported
2004	not reported
2005	not reported
2006	not reported
2007	not reported
2008	105
2009	157
2010	110
2011	108
2012	102
2013	80
2014	78
2015	141
2016	148
2017	152
2018	153
2019	143
2020	139
2021	120
2022	130
2023	134
2024	80
2025	77

Civilian employees, 2025

120^{^[4]}

1.56 per sworn officer

Female sworn officers, 2025

14^{^[5]}

18.2% 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

counts

Internal affairs investigations reported by Rutgers University Police Department, by year
Category	counts
2021	46
2022	42
2023	88
2024	159
2025	78

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Incidents

31 in 2025

Internal affairs incidents reported by Rutgers University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	31
2022	32
2023	33
2024	37
2025	31

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Officers on IA rows

68 in 2025

Officers listed on the officer-level internal affairs rows for Rutgers University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	not reported
2022	not reported
2023	not reported
2024	53
2025	68

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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 Rutgers University Police Department, by year
Year	share of total
2021	0
2022	16.667
2023	10.227
2024	28.302
2025	16.667

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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 68 officers involved.

Most serious allegation

Most serious allegations reported by Rutgers University Police Department, 2025
Other Departmental Rule Violation	34
Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency	24
Other Criminal Violation	8
Excessive Force	7
Harassment/Stalking	4
Demeanor	1

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AdministrativeConduct / dutyRights / integrityViolence / criminal

Statewide category pages: Other Departmental Rule Violation · Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency · Other Criminal Violation · Excessive Force · Harassment/Stalking · Demeanor

Internal disposition

Internal dispositions reported by Rutgers University Police Department, 2025
not provided	35
Unfounded	16
Sustained	14
Not Sustained	7
Exonerated	6

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Allegations by year, 2021 to 2025

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

Other Departmental Rule Violation

176 of 413

Other Departmental Rule Violation allegations reported by Rutgers University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	27
2022	11
2023	20
2024	84
2025	34

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Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency

65 of 413

Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency allegations reported by Rutgers University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	6
2023	23
2024	12
2025	24

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Demeanor

39 of 413

Demeanor allegations reported by Rutgers University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	11
2022	3
2023	6
2024	18
2025	1

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Excessive Force

25 of 413

Excessive Force allegations reported by Rutgers University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	0
2022	3
2023	6
2024	9
2025	7

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Other (11 categories)

108 of 413

Other (11 categories) allegations reported by Rutgers University Police Department, by year
Year	counts
2021	8
2022	19
2023	33
2024	36
2025	12

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Against peers, 2025

How this grade was built →

Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers, 2025 (investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers)
Rutgers University Police Department	210.8
County median, state agency (0)	not computable
NJ median, state agency (10)	130.7

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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.

78 investigations reported for 2025^[1] ÷ 77 sworn officers the department reported to the FBI for 2025^[17] = 101.3 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 F: Highest fifth of peers

On reported IA volume and discipline severity; see methodology

Combined standing: 85th percentile of 10 peers
Confidence: High confidence

Where this agency falls among its peers

The actual spread of discipline severity across Rutgers University Police Department's real peer group, not an assumed bell curve. If the group is skewed, it is shown skewed.

Peer group: State agency, all state agencies (n=10)

Discipline severity: State agency, all state agencies
Range	Agencies
0–50	5
50–100	4
100–150	0
150–200	1

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Rutgers University Police Department: 46.632 severity-weighted discipline per 100 IA-investigated officers: 45th percentile among State agency, all state agencies (n=10).

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%

95th percentileof 10 peers

212.0 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%

45th percentileof 10 peers

46.6 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%

75th percentileof 10 peers

2.02 mean severity tier (1 low - 4 critical)

Mean severity tier of IA allegations across 2021-2025, using the published tier map; unknown values excluded.

What this grade can and can't tell you

The underlying data is self-reported by agencies, one yearly snapshot at a time.
Allegations are not findings; many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
There is no arrest or call-volume denominator in this data, so nothing here is a per-capita misconduct rate. A genuinely independent staffing-based rate, sourced from the FBI rather than this grade's own data, appears above when available. It is a different measurement, not a more accurate version of the grade.
A higher internal affairs volume is ambiguous: it can indicate more misconduct, or a more robust oversight and reporting culture. The grade weighs it anyway, because volume is what the record offers; that choice is published, not hidden.
The grade is one lens. The records it reads are on this page above.

Where this agency ranks

AnalysisRankings compare agencies of the same type only, on figures as reported. A high rank is reported volume, not a verdict.^[18] How each metric is defined.

This agency's rank on each metric, among agencies of the same type
Metric	Value	Rank
IA per 100 investigated officers2025	210.8	1st of 10 state agency
IA investigations2025	78	4th of 10 state agency
IA incidents2025	31	6th of 10 state agency
Major discipline2020-2025	8	4th of 8 state agency
Terminations2020-2025	1	4th of 5 state agency

Major discipline records

3 major discipline records in 2025, up from 1 in 2020 (+200%).
Year	major discipline records
2020	1
2021	1
2022	0
2023	2
2024	1
2025	3

3 major discipline records in 2025, up from 1 in 2020 (+200%).

Major discipline records reported by Rutgers University Police Department, 2020-2025
Year	Officer	Rank	Sanction as reported	Src
2025	Nasir Cole	Police Officer	Suspended 30 days	^[19]
2025	Sabria Glasgow	Police Officer Recruit	Separated while IA pending	^[20]
2025	Bryant Olivo	Police Officer	Suspended 10 days	^[21]
2024	Jason Castillo	Officer	Suspended 30 days	^[22]
2023	Oscar Torres	Officer	Suspended 30 days	^[23]
2023	Oscar Torres	Officer	Suspended 6 days	^[24]
2021	George Christian	Officer	Terminated	^[25]
2020	Amy Leffand	Sergeant	Suspended 6 days	^[26]

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 Rutgers University Police Department's internal affairs and discipline record?

Rutgers University Police Department is a state agency. It named 37 officers in internal affairs cases in 2025 and reported 78 investigations, a rate of 210.8 per 100 officers, well above the 130.7 median for state agencies. A rate at that level can reflect a heavier volume of misconduct or a department that documents far more of the complaints brought to it. Of the 78 investigations detailed for 2025, 13 reported sustained complaints. Other Departmental Rule Violation led the allegation categories, followed by Conduct Unbecoming/Discredit To The Agency and Other Criminal Violation. Allegations are not findings. Eight major discipline records appear across the 2020-2025 releases, from 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025, including one termination. Rutgers University received an F on the report card, at the 85th percentile among 10 peers in the all state agencies band, a high-confidence grade.

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

Rutgers University Police Department reported 78 internal affairs investigations in 2025, according to New Jersey Attorney General data. 37 distinct officers were named in that year's IA investigations.

How many major discipline records does Rutgers University Police Department have?

Rutgers University Police Department has 8 major discipline records in the Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, of which 1 were terminations. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

How many officers does Rutgers University Police Department have?

Rutgers University Police Department reported 77 full-time sworn officers to the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census for 2025, 18.2% 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]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2502. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[2]New Jersey Internal Affairs Officers, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Officer counts summed across every Rutgers University PD row. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8265. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[4]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8265. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8265. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[6]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 462. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[7]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1483. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
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[9]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 967. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[10]New Jersey Internal Affairs Agency Totals, 2021-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 2502. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. ↩
[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 Rutgers University PD row for 2025; row 1 is the header. ↩
[12]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 Rutgers University PD row for 2021. ↩
[13]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Rutgers University PD row for 2022. ↩
[14]New Jersey Internal Affairs Data Download, 2021-2023. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Rutgers University PD row for 2023. ↩
[15]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Rutgers University PD row for 2024. ↩
[16]New Jersey Internal Affairs Investigations, 2024-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Sheet1", row 1. Snapshot retrieved 2026-06-09. Aggregated from every Rutgers University PD row for 2025. ↩
[17]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8265. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩
[18]Ranks computed by this site over the Attorney General internal affairs agency totals and major discipline releases, within agency type. Each ranking page lists every agency and its source rows. ↩
[19]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 780. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[20]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 781. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[21]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 782. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[22]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1424. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[23]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1968. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[24]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1969. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[25]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2760. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[26]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 3000. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩