Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Joseph Sweet

Brigantine Police Department · 2 records · 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.
All figures are self-reported by agencies to the New Jersey Attorney General and shown as reported. Blank fields read "not reported," never "no."
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 65 days

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

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

Officer Joseph Sweet, without permission, demonstrated the use of a non-lethal weapon in an unauthorized location and demonstrated the use of a firearm in an unauthorized location. The Brigantine Police Department suspended Sweet for 65 days. The specific sustained charge was not provided.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Without permission, demonstrated the use of a non-lethal weapon in an unauthorized location and demonstrated the use of firearm in an unauthorized location

Major discipline · 2021^[2]

Suspended 35 days

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

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

In a separate matter, Officer Joseph Sweet, while on authorized breaks, failed to return to his designated sector before the required end time of certain breaks. The Brigantine Police Department suspended Sweet for 35 days. The specific sustained charge was not provided.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

While on authorized breaks, failed to return to his designated sector before the required end time of certain breaks.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[3]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $120,024
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 18 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 2423. 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 2424. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 238138, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩