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Agencies, by type and size
Individual rankings show where one agency stands. These views show the shape of the whole peer group: municipal police departments banded by size, and every other agency type as its own group.
Internal affairs investigations per 100 IA-investigated officers
Latest year · by agency type and size band
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
Latest year · by agency type and size band
Total internal affairs investigations reported for the year.
Internal affairs incidents
Latest year · by agency type and size band
Total incidents underlying internal affairs investigations reported for the year.
Major discipline records, 2020-2025
2020-2025 · by agency type and size band
Final, post-appeal discipline records across all six reporting years.
Terminations, 2020-2025
2020-2025 · by agency type and size band
Major discipline records where the officer was terminated.
Militarization Index: tactical 1033 value per sworn officer
as of 2026-06-30 · by agency type and size band
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 · by agency type and size band
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 · by agency type and size band
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 · by agency type and size band
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.