Officer John Brown was suspended for compromising a criminal investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, divulging sensitive information to the suspect of a narcotics investigation. The conduct occurred in 2018, the suspension started on April 5, 2019, and the appeal became final in 2022. Brown was suspended for 975 days and subsequently retired. The sustained charge was insubordination.
Officer Brown was suspended for compromising a criminal investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office by divulging sensitive information to the suspect of the narcotics investigation. Conduct occurred in 2018, suspension started on April 5, 2019, but appeal became final in 2022. Officer Brown subsequently retired.
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What is a summary of John Brown's major discipline record?
Officer John Brown was suspended for compromising a criminal investigation by the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office, divulging sensitive information to the suspect of a narcotics investigation. The conduct occurred in 2018, the suspension started on April 5, 2019, and the appeal became final in 2022. Brown was suspended for 975 days and subsequently retired. The sustained charge was insubordination.
What is John Brown's major discipline record at Bergenfield Police Department?
John Brown has one major discipline record at Bergenfield Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Bergenfield Police Department, the department John Brown worked for?
Bergenfield Police Department reported 47 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about John Brown individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2052. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8132. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩