Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Justin Eavey

West Caldwell Police Department · 2 records · 2021, 2022

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 · 2022^[1]

Suspended 4 days

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

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

Patrolman Justin Eavey was suspended by the West Caldwell Police Department in 2022 for insubordination. The agency reported that Eavey did not follow an order to assist with traffic at an event. Because Eavey works 12 hour shifts, his suspension of 4 shifts amounted to 48 hours.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Ptl. Eavey was suspended for 4 shifts for not following an order to assist traffic at an event. Ptl. Eavey's works 12 hour shifts, therefore, his suspension was for 48 hours.

Major discipline · 2021^[2]

Suspended 19 days

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

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

Patrol Officer Justin Eavey was suspended for 19 days by the West Caldwell Police Department in 2021. The agency reported that the suspension was for an on-duty motor vehicle accident. The sustained charge was a policy violation. The department did not provide additional detail about the incident.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Ptl. Eavey was suspended for 19 for an on-duty motor vehicle accident.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[3]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $137,933
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 9 years, 4 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 2186. 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 2560. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 232268, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩