This is not a database of police misconduct. A high number of uses of force does not necessarily indicate wrongdoing. The material in this database was reported by individual officers on their department’s specified form and provided to NJ Advance Media under the state Open Public Records Act. We cannot independently verify every detail, and because forms are completed by officers, they might be inaccurate, incomplete, illegible or missing altogether. Every effort has been made to clean and standardize the data without introducing errors. If you see a problem, please email forcereport@njadvancemedia.com.