Police Officer Richard Donan was suspended for 15 days by the Jersey City Police Department in 2022 on sustained charges of conduct and conduct unbecoming a public employee. The department reported that Donan pulled the victim by the hair during a domestic dispute and, on another occasion, made multiple calls to the victim and threw a water bottle at her bedroom window.
Police Officer Richard Donan pulled the victim by the hair during a domestic dispute and on another occasion made multiple calls to the victim and threw a water bottle at her bedroom window.
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What is a summary of Richard Donan's major discipline record?
Police Officer Richard Donan was suspended for 15 days by the Jersey City Police Department in 2022 on sustained charges of conduct and conduct unbecoming a public employee. The department reported that Donan pulled the victim by the hair during a domestic dispute and, on another occasion, made multiple calls to the victim and threw a water bottle at her bedroom window.
What is Richard Donan's major discipline record at Jersey City Police Department?
Richard Donan has one major discipline record at Jersey City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2022. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
What is Richard Donan's base salary on record?
Richard Donan's reported base salary is $85,000, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Richard Donan has 6 years, 6 months of reported service.
How large is Jersey City Police Department, the department Richard Donan worked for?
Jersey City Police Department reported 799 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Richard Donan individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 2210. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 233071, 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 8343. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩