Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Marvin Leggitts

Jersey City 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.
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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.
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Major discipline · 2021^[1]

Suspended 15 days

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

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

Police Officer Marvin Leggitts was suspended for 15 days by the Jersey City Police Department in 2021 on a sustained charge of loss of weapon. The department reported that Leggitts, while off duty, left his loaded off-duty weapon unattended in the bathroom of a McDonald's in Hillside.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Police Officer Marvin Leggitts while off duty left his loaded off duty weapon unattended in the bathroom of McDonalds in Hillside, NJ.

Major discipline · 2021^[2]

Suspended 0 days

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

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

Police Officer Marvin Leggitts was disciplined by the Jersey City Police Department in 2021 on a sustained charge of conduct. The department reported that Leggitts, while off duty, left his loaded off-duty weapon unattended in the bathroom of a McDonald's in Hillside. The record lists a suspension without a reported number of days.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Police Officer Marvin Leggitts while off duty left his loaded off duty weapon unattended in the bathroom of McDonalds in Hillside, NJ.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[3]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $118,692
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 16 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 2585. 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 2594. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[3]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 233242, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩