Suspended 6 daysmost recent record, 2025 · as reported
Contreras has 2 sustained major discipline records from Newark PD, spanning 2023 to 2025. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Disobedience of Orders; Use of Force and Disobedience of Orders.
Discipline timeline, 2023 to 2025
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2 records, 2023 to 2025
Major discipline records reported for Luis Contreras, by year
In 2025, Officer Contreras applied unnecessary force by pushing a civilian in the chest during a verbal altercation, while being provoked. Newark PD sustained charges of use of force and disobedience of orders. Contreras received a 6-day suspension.
Officer Contreras participated in an inappropriate pursuit, neglecting to notify dispatch or his immediate supervisor and failing to activate his body-worn camera. The pursuit was conducted for a stolen auto violation, which contravened the department's Vehicle Pursuit Policy. Newark PD sustained a charge of disobedience of orders and suspended Contreras for 6 days in 2023.
Officer Contreras participated in an inappropriate pursuit by neglecting to notify dispatch or his immediate supervisor and failing to activate his body-worn camera. Furthermore, the pursuit was conducted for a stolen auto violation, which contravenes the Department's Vehicle Pursuit Policy.
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AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.
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.
Questions and answers
What is a summary of Luis Contreras's major discipline record?
Contreras has 2 sustained major discipline records from Newark PD, spanning 2023 to 2025. The records include a suspension. Sustained charges across the records include: Disobedience of Orders; Use of Force and Disobedience of Orders.
What is Luis Contreras's major discipline record at Newark Police Department?
Luis Contreras has 2 major discipline records at Newark Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023, 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Luis Contreras's base salary on record?
Luis Contreras's reported base salary is $82,936, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Luis Contreras has 3 years, 4 months of reported service.
How large is Newark Police Department, the department Luis Contreras worked for?
Newark Police Department reported 1,119 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Luis Contreras individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 315. 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 1671. 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 315. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. The timeline counts rows 315, 1671. ↩
[4]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 218156, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[5]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8643. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩