A New Jersey police chief has been accused by five of his officers of turning the department into an “Animal House” rife with harassment against his employees, including incidents of him defecating on the office floor, spiking the office coffee pot with Adderall and Viagra, and jabbing one officer in the penis with a hypodermic needle.

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    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)@badatbeing.social
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      Mac: But our shenanigans are cheeky and fun.

      Thorny: Yeah, I mean, his shenanigans are cruel and tragic.

      Foster: Which makes them not shenanigans at all, really.

      Mac: Evil shenanigans.

      O’Hagan: I swear to God I’ll pistol whip the next guy that says, “shenanigans”!

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        “…Hey Farva! What’s the name of that restaurant you like, with all the goofy shit on the walls and the mozzarella sticks?”

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    Farley, who earns more than $228,000 a year, heads a police force that has 140 uniformed officers who patrol a 5.57 square mile township of some 60,000 residents that sits directly across the Hudson River from Manhattan and recorded two homicides last year, the most since 2016, according to the police department’s records.

    Straight out of CopLand 😶‍

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    He started with the ‘pranks’ in February 2024…so they put up with that shit for over a year before doing anything???

    Michael F. Derin said in his notice that he and Farley had been friends until Farley became chief and that from then on he began playing pranks on the officers, like setting off car alarms and putting ink on door handles.

    Soon, Derin wrote, the pranks took a darker turn, like in August 2024 when he found himself being chased “around the office” by Farley.

    “After cornering me in the filing area with no further room for retreat, he sticks a hypodermic needle through my jeans into the tip of my penis,” he wrote.

    Derin wrote that when he protested, Farley “told me I don’t know how to take a joke.”

    “From this point on, the chief creates a hostile work environment,” Derin wrote. “The chief would shave his body hair on peoples’ property, their persons, and their food. He was also fond of scraping fluids from his underwear onto people seated in the chief’s office.”

    Derin’s son wrote that he witnessed Farley lace the communal coffee pot with prescription drugs and then wait for somebody to pour themselves a cup of the doctored coffee. He said he started getting his own coffee from a machine “because I did not feel it was safe to drink from the pot anymore.” He also said that he was forced to do schoolwork for Farley’s daughter, including writing a research paper on her behalf that took several days during work to complete.

    Guzman wrote that Farley, “on several occasions, pulled his pants down and defecated on the floor in front of his office staff.”

    “He also left feces on the bathroom floor, apparently with the intent of having someone unknowingly step on it,” Guzman wrote.