Officer record · As reported by the employing agency

Rodney Watson

Summit Police Department · 1 record · 2025

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Major discipline · 2025^[1]

Suspended 8 days

Rank as reported: Patrol Officer
Sustained charge(s)
Other sanction: Oral reprimand or performance notice
Separated while IA pending: No

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

Officer Watson berated an on-duty sergeant, standing over her as she sat, waving his finger, and screaming that he did not have to listen to her because he was senior and the rules did not apply to him, according to the Summit Police Department. When the sergeant said she would write him up, the record states Watson replied, "Go ahead, I will wipe my ass with it." He was suspended for eight working days, a total of 88 hours, on a sustained charge of insubordination in 2025.

Synopsis as reported by the agency

Officer Watson berated an on-duty Sergeant. Officer Watson stood over the seated Sergeant, waved his finger at her, screaming that he did not have to listen to her because he was senior and the rules did not apply to him. Ultimately, the Sergeant told him that she would be writing him up for his actions and he replied, “Go ahead, I will wipe my ass with it.” At the conclusion of my investigation, Officer Watson was suspended for eight (8) working days - a total of eighty-eight (88) hours.

Compensation and pension

Active member · NJ Treasury YourMoney^[2]

This site: records-based match

Base salary (pension basis): $146,353
Pension fund: Police and Firemen's Retirement System (PFRS)
Reported years of service: 31 years, 3 months

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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 811. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]YourMoney Active Pension Members (PFRS/SPRS subset). New Jersey Department of the Treasury. Row 224501, snapshot as of March 31, 2026. Derived from the public YourMoney Active Pension Members dataset, https://www.yourmoney.nj.gov/. ↩