Suspended 12 daysSeparated while IA pending2025 · as reported
Sergeant Sean Carnahan was suspended for 12 days by the Englewood Police Department and separated while an internal affairs matter was pending. On 10/29/24, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office received a complaint of an offensive comment made by Carnahan to another Englewood police officer. After an investigation involving multiple witness officers, Carnahan admitted to making the racially insensitive comment. He was immediately suspended and retired after the conclusion of the investigation.
On 10/29/24, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office received a complaint of an offensive comment made by Sgt. Carnahan to another Englewood Police Officer. After an investigation, involving multiple witness officers, Sgt. Carnahan admitted to making the racially insensitive comment. He was immediately suspended and retired after the conclusion of the investigation.
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What is a summary of Sean Carnahan's major discipline record?
Sergeant Sean Carnahan was suspended for 12 days by the Englewood Police Department and separated while an internal affairs matter was pending. On 10/29/24, the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office received a complaint of an offensive comment made by Carnahan to another Englewood police officer. After an investigation involving multiple witness officers, Carnahan admitted to making the racially insensitive comment. He was immediately suspended and retired after the conclusion of the investigation.
What is Sean Carnahan's major discipline record at Englewood Police Department?
Sean Carnahan has one major discipline record at Englewood Police Department in the New Jersey Attorney General's 2020-2025 releases, from 2025. These are final, adjudicated actions, not allegations.
How large is Englewood Police Department, the department Sean Carnahan worked for?
Englewood Police Department reported 83 sworn officers to the FBI for 2025. This is department-level context from the FBI's Law Enforcement Employees census, not a statement about Sean Carnahan individually.
Sources
[1]New Jersey Major Discipline Data, 2020-2025. New Jersey Office of the Attorney General. Sheet "Major Discipline Data", row 74. Snapshot retrieved 2026-07-03. ↩
[2]FBI Law Enforcement Employees (LEE), New Jersey subset. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Row 8144. Derived from the public Law Enforcement Employees (LEE) / Police Employee Data dataset (1960-2025), https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/. ↩