When applying for a FID card, is it customary for the police department to send out by mail and then receive back a reference check form and then follow up with a call stating is "is there anything else you would like to add?" There would most likely not have been ANYTHING that would have raised a red flag and would have prompted further inquiry.

I have a completely clean record, and my town required both references to check a list of boxes about me answering to the best of their knowledge if I'm of sound mind and health, free of drug addiction, alcholism, seek to overrule the government etc, and then sign and get it NOTARIZED. Many towns do this minus the notarization

Jersey City does the notarization bit, but were very timely for me. 20 days from application to having my FID and 2 P2P in my hand.