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Rodney Watson

Summit Police Department · 1 record · 2025

Suspended 8 days2025 · as reported

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.

Major discipline records

Major discipline · 2025[1]

Suspended 8 days
Rank as reported
Patrol Officer (see this rank)
Sustained charge(s)
Other sanction
Oral reprimand or performance notice
Separated while IA pending
No

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.

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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

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, "Rodney Watson, Summit Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/rodney-watson-summit-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.

Questions and answers

What is a summary of Rodney Watson's major discipline record?

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.

What is Rodney Watson's major discipline record at Summit Police Department?

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

What is Rodney Watson's base salary on record?

Rodney Watson's reported base salary is $146,353, from New Jersey Treasury YourMoney data, matched to this officer at high confidence. Rodney Watson has 31 years, 3 months of reported service.

How large is Summit Police Department, the department Rodney Watson worked for?

Summit Police Department reported 49 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Rodney Watson individually.

Sources

  1. [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. [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/. ↩
  3. [3]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8618. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩