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How One Police Dept. Reached 2 Rulings on a Shooting
In August 2009, a NYPD panel, after reviewing evidence and interviews with police officers, school safety agents and a civilian witness, signed off on a decision in the fatal police shooting of a a day laborer nine months earlier: Officer Dawn...
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2 Officers Face Sanctions on Tactics in a 2008 Shooting
Two New York police officers cleared of department violations in a 2008 fatal shooting of a man in Coney Island will now face a disciplinary trial later this month over their decision-making in the moments before the shooting. A police advisory...
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Two cops who won honors in ’08 shooting now under fire...
Two cops honored after the fatal shooting of a crazed man who was waving a metal chair have been slapped with disciplinary charges in the incident. Officers Dawn Ortiz and India Archie were each commended as "Cop of the Year" by the NYPD Holy Name...
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Debra Lawson v. The City of New York, et al. 10...
Debra Lawson alleges that working as an undercover in the NYPD Organized Crime Control Bureau's Firearm Suppression Unit her civil rights were violated and she was subjected to gender and racial discrimination. Lawson's team including her...
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Midtown hotel cook says co-worker pretended to be a Ku Klux...
Midtown hotel chef has resigned after a black employee accused him of donning a white pillowcase to pretend to be a Ku Klux Klansman. Cook Julius Jones, the only black person working in the kitchen at the time of the incident, was shocked by chef...
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Lieutenant sent me sexually explicit text messages and possible photos of...
Bronx prosecutors are investigating a cop's accusations that a bad lieutenant sent her sexually explicit text messages and purportedly photos of his genitals. Officer Shemalisca Vasquez, 32, was interviewed Monday at the DA's office and turned...
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