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Newark Police Department

City agency in Essex, New Jersey, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2021.

ORI: NJNPD0000
Type: City
County: Essex
State: New Jersey (NJ)
FBI reporting: Reporting since 2021-01-01
Location: 40.7319, -74.1726

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 318,638.

1,119Sworn officers

307Civilian staff

4.48Employees per 1,000 people

318,638Population served

Year	Officers	Civilians	Population served	Per 1,000
2025	1,119	307	318,638	4.48
2024	1,067	303	309,708	4.42
2023	1,078	183	303,827	4.15
2022	1,118	205	304,311	4.35
2021	1,032	305	295,039	4.53
2020	1,062	345	282,242	4.99
2019	1,187	346	281,422	5.45
2018	1,155	335	282,258	5.28
2017	1,171	320	283,673	5.26
2016	1,113	270	281,450	4.91
2015	1,033	170	280,888	4.28
2014	1,014	298	279,110	4.70

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Deaths during encounters with this agency

68 people have died during an encounter with Newark Police Department between 2000 and 2023, according to Mapping Police Violence.

68Deaths recorded

21.34Per 100,000 people policed

2000–2023Period covered

Recorded cause	Deaths
Gunshot	47
Vehicle	15
Medical emergency	3
Asphyxiated/Restrained	2
Drug overdose	1

What this figure is and is not. It counts deaths recorded as occurring during an encounter with this agency. It is not a finding of wrongdoing, and a death being recorded here says nothing about whether it was lawful. Many involve armed confrontations; some involve none. Police Census publishes counts only and does not name the people who died.

These records are compiled from news reports and public records by Mapping Police Violence, an independent research organisation — they are not official statistics, and no federal database records this comprehensively. Used with permission.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Newark Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reported	Officers assaulted
Firearm	146
Knife or other cutting instrument	41
Hands, fists or feet	1,388
Other weapon	636

Year	Firearm	Knife	Hands, fists, feet	Other
1995	9	1	30	20
1996	3	0	49	26
1997	1	1	32	16
1998	4	0	19	7
1999	3	2	33	17
2000	11	5	50	27
2001	7	1	50	28
2002	9	2	48	34
2003	8	3	49	31
2004	11	3	47	23
2005	11	1	38	27
2006	6	2	44	18
2007	4	2	34	19
2008	5	2	33	22
2009	6	0	35	18
2010	5	0	40	11
2011	3	0	28	12
2012	4	0	33	9
2013	6	1	29	10
2014	5	0	18	7
2015	3	1	20	8
2016	4	1	31	2
2017	4	0	23	11
2018	1	0	30	9
2019	1	0	30	5
2020	0	0	17	6
2021	6	0	100	41
2022	2	8	67	31
2023	0	1	64	41
2024	2	3	77	52
2025	2	1	190	48

Why there is no single total here. The FBI publishes two breakdowns of the same assaults — by weapon, and by how the officer was deployed — and nationally they do not agree: the assignment columns sum to 1,869,337 and the weapon columns to 1,744,852, and the two match on only 84% of rows. Police Census publishes the weapon breakdown as the FBI states it rather than picking one basis and calling it ‘the total’. The file’s ‘cleared’ column is not shown either: it sums higher than the assaults themselves, so it is not a subset of what is above and we have not established what it counts.

This comes from the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted programme. Despite the name, the file carries no officers-killed data at all — those columns are empty for every agency and every year, so this page reports assaults only and says nothing about officers killed.

LEOKA identifies agencies by name, not by the ORI used elsewhere on this site. A row was attached only where exactly one agency in that state reduces to the same base name; 78.7% of rows matched nationwide. An agency with nothing here may have reported no assaults, or may be one of the names that did not match — Police Census does not guess which.

Military surplus received

Transferred under the Department of Defense 1033 programme, which passes surplus military equipment to law enforcement agencies at no cost. Values are the Department’s original acquisition cost, not what the equipment is worth today.

$92,290Original acquisition value

1Line items received

2009–2009Years of transfers

Item	Quantity	Acquisition value	Most recent
Helicopter,Observation	1	$92,290	2009-02-18

Source: Defense Logistics Agency, Law Enforcement Support Office, public data as at 30 June 2026. Items are grouped by description; the date shown is the most recent shipment of that item.

Federal oversight

The Department of Justice Civil Rights Division has taken the following action against Newark Police Department under 34 U.S.C. § 12601. The case type and document titles below are DOJ’s own words, reproduced without interpretation — see all federal oversight matters on /oversight.

DOJ’s case type: Closed

Not East Newark (NJ0090200), a separate municipality. [2026-10-07] DOJ relabelled this matter from Enforcement to Closed; caught by the nightly verbatim gate on 2026-10-05.

Source: Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Special Litigation Section.

Also policing Essex

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record NJNPD0000. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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