Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Jack Sanchez

Paterson Police Department · 2 records · 2020, 2021

About this data

Records on this page come from the Attorney General's major discipline releases: final, post-appeal discipline as reported by the employing agency. They are sustained charges, not allegations.
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Data is a yearly snapshot. Cases are not tracked across years, and major discipline appears only in the year it became final after all appeals.
In internal affairs data, allegations are not findings: many complaints end unfounded, exonerated, or not sustained.
Any compensation figure below comes from New Jersey Treasury pension data, a separate source from the discipline records. It is matched to this officer by name and employing agency at high confidence, not by certified identity.

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Major discipline · 2021^[1]

Suspended 20 days

Rank as reported: Patrol Officer
Sustained charge(s): Rendering appropriate action
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

Patrol Officer Sanchez was involved in a motor vehicle accident while operating a marked police vehicle and failed to take appropriate action. When he was ordered to provide a report, Sanchez provided inaccurate information. The Paterson Police Department suspended him for 20 days on a sustained charge related to rendering appropriate action.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer was involved in a motor vehicle accident while operating a marked police vehicle and failed to take appropriate action. When the officer was ordered to provide a report, he provided inaccurate information.

Major discipline · 2020^[2]

Suspended 20 days

Rank as reported: Patrol Officer
Sustained charge(s): not applicable
Separated while IA pending: not applicable (collected 2023 and later)

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

The Paterson Police Department suspended Patrol Officer Sanchez for 20 days in 2020. According to the record, the suspension was for untruthfulness on a report. The agency did not provide a separate list of sustained charges beyond that description.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Suspended for untruthfulness on a report.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[3]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $105,376
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 8 years, 8 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 2656. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2922. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 226110, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩