Officer David Preziosi was suspended for 60 days by the West Orange Police Department in 2023. An internal investigation of his actions during a residential burglary and motor vehicle theft investigation found that Preziosi conducted an improper investigation and failed to properly document the incident, including failing to notify his supervisor and detective bureau personnel. He drafted 3 separate incident reports that gave contradictory accounts of the facts and was evasive and showed a lack of candor with supervisors. The sustained charge was neglect of duty.
An internal investigation of Officer Preziosi's actions during a Residential Burglary / Motor Vehicle Theft investigation revealed that the officer conducted an improper investigation and failed to properly document the incident. Specifically by failing to properly notify his supervisor and Detective bureau personnel of the inicdnet and conducting a poor investigation of the scene for information/evidence. Additionally, the officer drafted 3 separate incident reports consisting of contradictory accounting of the facts and was evasive and showed a lack of candor with supervisors when they attempted to obtain accurate information from him.
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What is a summary of David Preziosi's major discipline record?
Officer David Preziosi was suspended for 60 days by the West Orange Police Department in 2023. An internal investigation of his actions during a residential burglary and motor vehicle theft investigation found that Preziosi conducted an improper investigation and failed to properly document the incident, including failing to notify his supervisor and detective bureau personnel. He drafted 3 separate incident reports that gave contradictory accounts of the facts and was evasive and showed a lack of candor with supervisors. The sustained charge was neglect of duty.
What is David Preziosi's major discipline record at West Orange Police Department?
David Preziosi has one major discipline record at West Orange Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is David Preziosi's base salary on record?
David Preziosi's reported base salary is $120,521, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. David Preziosi has 17 years of reported service.
How large is West Orange Police Department, the department David Preziosi worked for?
West Orange Police Department reported 95 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about David Preziosi individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1680. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 222541, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8306. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩