Jersey City PD sustained charges of neglect of duty and failure to perform duties against Police Officer Richard Gomez in 2025. The record states that on 6/11/2024 Gomez responded to a suspected bias incident involving criminal mischief, the use of a weapon, and racial slurs, and that he failed to make proper notifications to dispatch and his supervisor of the bias nature of the incident, preventing the department's proper investigatory response. Gomez was not suspended, and the record notes he was separated while an internal affairs matter was pending.
(a) (1) , , or Failure To Perform Duties (7) JCPD Rule 3:123 Obedience to Laws
regulations
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Separated while IA pending
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Synopsis as reported by the agency
On 6/11/2024 P.O. R. Gomez responded to a suspected bias incident involving criminal mischief,the use of a weapon and racial slurs.He failed to make proper notifications to dispatch and his supervisor of the bias nature of the incident and therefore prevented the proper police investigatory response and community protection that is typical of the deaprtment during these types of incidents.
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Questions and answers
What is a summary of Richard Gomez's major discipline record?
Jersey City PD sustained charges of neglect of duty and failure to perform duties against Police Officer Richard Gomez in 2025. The record states that on 6/11/2024 Gomez responded to a suspected bias incident involving criminal mischief, the use of a weapon, and racial slurs, and that he failed to make proper notifications to dispatch and his supervisor of the bias nature of the incident, preventing the department's proper investigatory response. Gomez was not suspended, and the record notes he was separated while an internal affairs matter was pending.
What is Richard Gomez's major discipline record at Jersey City Police Department?
Richard Gomez has one major discipline record at Jersey City Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Jersey City Police Department, the department Richard Gomez 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 Gomez individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 378. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]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/. ↩