Rankings
Departments, compared
Every ranking states its metric definition, source file, and year, and never compares across agency types: municipal police, county corrections, and state agencies answer to different realities.
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers
2025 · by year, 2021-2025 · segmented by agency type
How many investigations an agency opened for every 100 officers named in them. Above 100 means officers are named in more than one investigation on average. Not a rate against department size: the denominator counts officers who were investigated, not officers employed.
Internal affairs investigations
2025 · by year, 2021-2025 · segmented by agency type
Total internal affairs investigations reported for the year.
Internal affairs incidents
2025 · by year, 2021-2025 · segmented by agency type
Total incidents underlying internal affairs investigations reported for the year.
Major discipline records, 2020-2025
2020-2025 · segmented by agency type
Final, post-appeal discipline records across all six reporting years.
Terminations, 2020-2025
2020-2025 · segmented by agency type
Major discipline records where the officer was terminated.
Militarization Index: tactical 1033 value per sworn officer
as of 2026-06-30 · segmented by agency type
Original DoD acquisition value of tactical-classed 1033 equipment an agency has received over the life of the program, divided by its FBI-reported sworn officers. An analysis figure by this site: it measures how intensively an agency has participated in a lawful federal program, not what it holds today, and receiving surplus equipment is not misconduct.
Sworn officers per 1,000 residents
latest reported census year · segmented by agency type
FBI-reported sworn officers divided by the population the census records for the jurisdiction, in each agency's latest reported year. Staffing intensity is a resourcing fact, not a performance measure in either direction.
Median police pay against county school-staff pay
pension snapshot 2026-03-31 · segmented by agency type
The department's median pensionable officer salary divided by the median pensionable salary of school staff in the same county, from one NJ Treasury snapshot. Base salary only for both, the two work years are different lengths, and a pay comparison is not a budget claim.
Police-related public records requests (OPRAmachine)
OPRAmachine, 2017 to present · segmented by agency type
Police-related OPRA requests filed through OPRAmachine and matched to the agency or its parent municipal body. Request volume measures public attention and OPRAmachine usage in that place, not agency conduct or compliance.
Agencies, by type and size
Distribution shape by agency type and size band
The full spread of agencies in each type/size peer group, not just where one agency ranks.
Counties, compared
2025 IA totals · 2020-2025 discipline · non-reporting counts
All 21 counties on investigations, officers, discipline records, terminations, and agencies reporting no IA investigations.
Officers, by rank
As-reported rank titles, canonicalized
Every named officer with a major discipline record, grouped into one comparable rank bucket across agencies.
Departments that encrypt radio
Sourced to PoliceRadioEncryption.com · labeled analysis
Agencies that encrypt their radio communications, matched to their internal affairs and discipline records.