In 2025, Lakewood Police Department suspended Patrolman Mandelbaum for 6 days and ordered training, coaching or counseling after he initiated a vehicular pursuit in July of 2025. The record states numerous policy violations were observed during the pursuit, including the reason for initiating it, which conflicted with the Attorney General's Pursuit Policy and the department's General Order #54 barring pursuits for minor traffic offenses. The charge of Insubordination was sustained.
Officer Mandelbaum initiated a vehicular pursuit in July of 2025. During the pursuit there were numerous policy violations observed, including the reason for initiating the pursuit. The policy violations observed were in direct conflict with the Attorney General's Pursuit Policy and the Lakewood Police Department's General Order #54 which both strictly prohibit, initiation of a "Vehiclular Pursiut", for minor Traffic Offenses. At the conclusion of the investigation, there was enough evidence to support a finding of "Sustained" for the infractions.
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What is a summary of Joseph Mandelbaum's major discipline record?
In 2025, Lakewood Police Department suspended Patrolman Mandelbaum for 6 days and ordered training, coaching or counseling after he initiated a vehicular pursuit in July of 2025. The record states numerous policy violations were observed during the pursuit, including the reason for initiating it, which conflicted with the Attorney General's Pursuit Policy and the department's General Order #54 barring pursuits for minor traffic offenses. The charge of Insubordination was sustained.
What is Joseph Mandelbaum's major discipline record at Lakewood Police Department?
Joseph Mandelbaum has one major discipline record at Lakewood Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Joseph Mandelbaum's base salary on record?
Joseph Mandelbaum's reported base salary is $98,953, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Joseph Mandelbaum has 5 years, 7 months of reported service.
How large is Lakewood Police Department, the department Joseph Mandelbaum worked for?
Lakewood Police Department reported 189 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Joseph Mandelbaum individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 497. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 230263, 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 8518. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩