Officer Luis Mendosa was suspended for 6 days by the Newark Police Department in 2022. The sustained charges included neglect of duty, failure to report a crime, official inefficiency, police image, and bound by duty. According to the department, Mendosa released an impaired driver and the vehicle to the driver's relatives without documenting the incident.
Officer Mendosa was suspended for 6 days for violation of Department rules and regulations; , failure to report a crime, official efficiency or , police image, and bound by duty. Officer Mejias released an impaired driver and the vehicle to the driver's relatives without documenting the incident.
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What is a summary of Luis Mendosa's major discipline record?
Officer Luis Mendosa was suspended for 6 days by the Newark Police Department in 2022. The sustained charges included neglect of duty, failure to report a crime, official inefficiency, police image, and bound by duty. According to the department, Mendosa released an impaired driver and the vehicle to the driver's relatives without documenting the incident.
What is Luis Mendosa's major discipline record at Newark Police Department?
Luis Mendosa has one major discipline record at Newark Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Newark Police Department, the department Luis Mendosa 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 Mendosa individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2166. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]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/. ↩