Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Michael Laferrera

Q: What is Michael Laferrera's base salary on record?

Michael Laferrera's reported base salary is $133,278, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Michael Laferrera has 13 years, 3 months of reported service.

Bogota Police Department · 1 record · 2020

Suspended 180 days2020 · as reported

Patrol Officer Michael Laferrera was suspended for 180 days by the Bogota Police Department. The sustained findings were neglect of duty, failure to comply with standards of conduct, performance of duty, and obedience to laws and regulations.

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 records

Major discipline · 2020^[1]

Suspended 180 days

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

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer Michael Laferrera was suspended for 180 days for , failure to comply with standards of conduct, performance of duty and obedience to laws and regulations.

Background: What a suspension actually means in New Jersey police discipline.

Similar records

AnalysisComputed by this site from shared agency, year, charge category, and sanction outcome. Not a legal or factual equivalence.

Scott Ritter · Asbury Park Police Department · 2020
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Charles Gill · Atlantic County Corrections · 2020
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Peter Wawrzonkiewicz · Atlantic County Corrections · 2020
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Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $133,278
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 13 years, 3 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 (matching name, exact employing agency, police-confirmed occupation, no competing candidate, and a scored match probability above the published floor; see the methodology), not a certified identity. If it is wrong, we will remove it: corrections.

Cite this page

Police Transparency NJ, "Michael Laferrera, Bogota Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/michael-laferrera-bogota-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Michael Laferrera's major discipline record?

Patrol Officer Michael Laferrera was suspended for 180 days by the Bogota Police Department. The sustained findings were neglect of duty, failure to comply with standards of conduct, performance of duty, and obedience to laws and regulations.

What is Michael Laferrera's major discipline record at Bogota Police Department?

Michael Laferrera has one major discipline record at Bogota Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2020. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.

What is Michael Laferrera's base salary on record?

Michael Laferrera's reported base salary is $133,278, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Michael Laferrera has 13 years, 3 months of reported service.

How large is Bogota Police Department, the department Michael Laferrera worked for?

Bogota Police Department reported 24 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Michael Laferrera individually.

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Sources

[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2795. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 224908, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩
[3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8133. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩