Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Ameen Hooper

East Orange Police Department · 1 record · 2023

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Major discipline · 2023^[1]

Suspended 10 days

Rank as reported: Officer
Sustained charge(s): ; Performance of Duty
Other sanction: Loss of time
Separated while IA pending: No

Plain-language summary (this site, from the cited record only)

Officer Ameen Hooper was suspended for 10 days with loss of time by the East Orange Police Department. On 1/22/2023, Hooper neglected to turn on his body worn camera on a call for service. The sustained charges were neglect of duty and performance of duty.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On 1/22/2023 Officer Hooper neglected to turn on his BWC on a call for service.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $113,900
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 11 years, 6 months

How to read this

The amount is as reported by the New Jersey Department of the Treasury in its YourMoney pension data, as of March 31, 2026. It is the pension-basis figure and may not include overtime, accrued leave, stipends, or other pay. The link between this officer and this pension record is a records-based match at high confidence (exact name and exact employing agency), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1637. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 221702, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩