Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Michael Crawford

Department Of Corrections · 1 record · 2024

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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Major discipline · 2024^[1]

Separated while IA pending

Rank as reported: Correctional Police Major
Sustained charge(s): N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 6. an employee N.J.A.C. 4A: 2-2.3(a) 12. . B8: Serious mistake due to carelessness which may result in danger and/or injury to persons or property. C11: an employee. E1: Violations of a rule, regulation, policy, procedure, order or administrative decision. E2: Intentional abuse or misuse of authority or position.
Separated while IA pending: Yes

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

Correctional Police Major Michael Crawford separated from the Department of Corrections while an internal affairs case was pending in 2024. On May 23, 2024, Crawford ordered subordinate staff to turn off their body-worn cameras while interacting with an incarcerated person who had been moved from housing in connection with a reported stabbing of another custody staff member. Crawford also allowed the person to move his property without being secured in mechanical restraints. He signed a settlement agreement on July 24, 2024.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

On May 23, 2024 Major Crawford ordered subordinate staff to turn off their body worn cameras while interacting with an Incarcerated Person. The Incarcerated Person was moved from their housing following the alleged stabbing of another custody staff member. Major Crawford allowed the Incarcerated Person to move his property without being secured in mechanical restraints. Major Crawford signed a settlement agreement on this matter on July 24, 2024.

Compensation and pension

Retired member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Monthly pension allowance: $8,329.56
Monthly total (incl. cost-of-living): $8,329.56
Final salary basis: $149,372
Retired: November 2024
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 26 years, 11 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 1341. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Retired Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 360247 (member 44348748), snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Retired Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩