Officer record · As reported by the employing agency
Newark Police Department · 1 record · 2023
Suspended 15 days2023 · as reported
Officer Gonzalez violated the Use of Force Policy by initiating contact with the complainant, using his chest to bump into the complainant. Newark PD sustained charges of disobedience of orders, conduct unbecoming a public employee, and excessive force, and suspended Gonzalez for 15 days in 2023.
Major discipline · 2023[1]
Suspended 15 daysSynopsis as reported by the agency
Officer Gonzalez violated the Use of Force Policy by initiating contact with the complainant, using his chest to bump into the complainant.
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David Paige · Newark Police Department · 2024
Suspended 10 daysSustained charge(s): Excessive Force, Disobedience of Orders
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Frank Rodriguez · Newark Police Department · 2022
Suspended 30 daysSustained charge(s): Excessive force, Disobedience to Orders
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Michael Rathjen · Burlington County Corrections · 2023
Suspended 55 daysSustained charge(s): Excessive force
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John Bocchino · East Orange Police Department · 2023
Suspended 10 daysSustained charge(s): Excessive force
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Erica Donald · Newark Police Department · 2023
Suspended 9 daysSustained charge(s): Disobedience of Orders
same agency · same year · similar sanction outcome
74 other named officers with reported major discipline records at this agency. Major discipline is final and post-appeal, as reported by the agency.
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Police Transparency NJ, "Samuel Gonzalez, Newark Police Department," last updated 2026-09-28, https://policetransparencynj.com/officers/samuel-gonzalez-newark-pd/. Source records: New Jersey Office of the Attorney General.
Officer Gonzalez violated the Use of Force Policy by initiating contact with the complainant, using his chest to bump into the complainant. Newark PD sustained charges of disobedience of orders, conduct unbecoming a public employee, and excessive force, and suspended Gonzalez for 15 days in 2023.
Samuel Gonzalez has one major discipline record at Newark Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2023. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
Newark Police Department reported 1,119 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Samuel Gonzalez individually.