Suspended (days not reported)most recent record, 2025 · as reported
Schulhafer has 3 sustained major discipline records from Linden PD, spanning 2023 to 2025. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Neglect of Duty, Insubordination; Neglect of Duty, Other sufficient cause, Dept. policies and procedures; Indictable Offense.
Discipline timeline, 2023 to 2025
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3 records, 2023 to 2025
Major discipline records reported for James Schulhafer, by year
In a 2025 record, Linden Police Department reported major discipline against Sergeant Schulhafer on a sustained charge of an Indictable Offense. According to the record, Schulhafer was charged with Theft by Deception under N.J.S.A. 2C:20-4 for behavior that occurred while on duty. The number of days suspended was not reported.
Linden Police Department suspended Sergeant Schulhafer for 48 days in 2023. According to the record, an internal investigation found that Schulhafer violated department policy on September 22 and 23, 2022, by studying for a promotional exam while on duty after his superior had ordered him not to. The sustained charges were Neglect of Duty and Insubordination.
An internal investigation revealed that Sgt. James Schulhafer violated department policy on September 22 and 23, 2022 by studying for a promotional exam while on duty after being ordered by his superior not to.
In a separate 2023 matter, Linden Police Department suspended Sergeant Schulhafer for 32 days. The record states that on May 18, 2022, Schulhafer failed to properly investigate a suspected impaired driver during a motor vehicle crash investigation and violated body worn camera policy by failing to activate his camera on arrival and deactivating it well before he cleared the scene. He never called out on the radio and was on scene for several minutes before activating the camera. The sustained charges included Neglect of Duty.
On May 18, 2022, Sgt. James Schulhafer failed to properly investigate a suspected impaired driver during a motor vehicle crash investigation. In addition, Schulhafer also violated departmental body worn camera (BWC) policy and procedure by failing to activate his BWC upon arrival. He also deactivated the BWC well before he cleared the scene. Schulhafer never called out on the radio and was on scene for several minutes before activating his BWC.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of James Schulhafer's major discipline record?
Schulhafer has 3 sustained major discipline records from Linden PD, spanning 2023 to 2025. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Neglect of Duty, Insubordination; Neglect of Duty, Other sufficient cause, Dept. policies and procedures; Indictable Offense.
What is James Schulhafer's major discipline record at Linden Police Department?
James Schulhafer has 3 major discipline records at Linden Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023, 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Linden Police Department, the department James Schulhafer worked for?
Linden Police Department reported 142 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about James Schulhafer individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 807. 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 1987. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 1988. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[4]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 807. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. The timeline counts rows 807, 1987, 1988. ↩
[5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8609. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩