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NYPD Lawyer Says She Was Denied Promotion Due to Pregnancy
THE NYPD is being sued by one of its own lawyers claiming she lost out on a promised promotion because she was pregnant. "Why should we promote her if she is going out on maternity leave," Wechsler allegedly told Messner, according to the gender...
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NYPD School Safety Supervisor Files $15 Million Dollar Notice of Claim...
Alfred D. Woodall III says working at the School Safety Division is no class act. The claim alleges that Woodall was a witness to the sexual harassment of a female former School Safety Agent at the hands of Deputy Director Gary Armstead. After the...
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NYC Settles Illegal Strip Search Case For $90K Where Male Detective...
NYC Settles Illegal Strip Search Case For $90K Where Male Detective Photographed Woman’s Below Waist Tattoo. After Bova filed a complaint, NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau investigators found 17 women who also claimed they had been strip-searched by...
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Black Employee Subjected to Makeshift Dummy ‘Hanging’ From A Beam
Islip officials are investigating a Halloween prank in which a town employee hung a masked dummy from a roof beam at a Central Islip parks maintenance shop. The effigy upset at least one African-American town employee, who reported it to police but...
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Ticket-Fixing Case Brings Out the Worst in NYPD Officers
Hero detective Steven McDonald showed up at the Bronx criminal courthouse Friday to support 16 cops who were arraigned in the ticket-fixing scandal. And when McDonald, who became a quadriplegic when he was shot by a 15-year-old in 1986, shows up -...
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Ticket Fixing Scandal: Accused NYPD Officers Put Thousands of Criminal Cases...
Thousands of criminal cases could be in trouble in the Bronx - an unprecedented headache for prosecutors due to the ticket-fixing scandal. A Daily News analysis of cases dating back to 2000 found hundreds of cops involved in the probe either...
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