{"id":515793,"date":"2022-11-25T14:29:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/these-nypd-officers-got-to-keep-their-jobs-despite-arrests\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T14:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T11:29:55","slug":"these-nypd-officers-got-to-keep-their-jobs-despite-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-nypd-officers-got-to-keep-their-jobs-despite-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"#These NYPD officers got to keep their jobs despite arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a411521972ef\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg 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class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-nypd-officers-got-to-keep-their-jobs-despite-arrests\/#%E2%80%9CThese_NYPD_officers_got_to_keep_their_jobs_despite_arrests%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;These NYPD officers got to keep their jobs despite arrests&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-nypd-officers-got-to-keep-their-jobs-despite-arrests\/#Breaking_the_law_theyre_supposed_to_uphold\" >Breaking the law they\u2019re supposed to uphold<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-nypd-officers-got-to-keep-their-jobs-despite-arrests\/#Second_chances\" >Second chances<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-nypd-officers-got-to-keep-their-jobs-despite-arrests\/#Low_conviction_rates_sweetheart_deals\" >Low conviction rates, sweetheart deals<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-nypd-officers-got-to-keep-their-jobs-despite-arrests\/#%E2%80%98I_had_the_evidence_%E2%80%A6_it_was_still_not_enough%E2%80%98\" >\u2018I had the evidence \u2026  it was still not enough\u2018<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-nypd-officers-got-to-keep-their-jobs-despite-arrests\/#Convoluted_nepotistic_disciplinary_system\" >Convoluted, nepotistic disciplinary system<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/these-nypd-officers-got-to-keep-their-jobs-despite-arrests\/#Rotten_to_the_core\" >Rotten to the core<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CThese_NYPD_officers_got_to_keep_their_jobs_despite_arrests%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;These NYPD officers got to keep their jobs despite arrests&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>On a cold December morning just before dawn, NYPD Officer Candice Smith got into her Dodge Caliber and careened eight miles in the wrong direction down a Long Island freeway, narrowly avoiding what could have easily been a tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Smith \u2014 who\u2019d been an NYPD patrol officer for three years at the time of the 2011 incident \u2014 was so intoxicated, her blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit, police said after her arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Five-and-a-half years later, Smith found herself back in handcuffs when she was busted for assault in the Bronx and then again in June 2020 in Queens, when she was arrested for drunk driving a second time, public records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the three arrests, Smith, 37, is still a member of the NYPD and, most recently, spent her days watching surveillance cameras from Brooklyn public housing complexes \u2014 collecting her full salary, plus tens of thousands in extra compensation, records show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an amazing police officer,\u201d Smith, who made $99,516 last year and is now in the process of leaving the department, told The Post when asked for comment on her arrests outside her Queens home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBad decisions are bad decisions but I\u2019m an amazing police officer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith is one of at least 16 police officers who were arrested between 2017 and 2021 and allowed to keep their jobs \u2014 even after an NYPD administrative trial judge found them guilty of the acts they were accused of, a Post investigation has found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-candice-smith.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Candice Smith.\" class=\"wp-image-24777127\" width=\"348\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-candice-smith.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=692 696w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-candice-smith.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=519 522w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-candice-smith.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=346 348w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-candice-smith.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=173 174w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-candice-smith.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\"\/><figcaption>\u201cBad decisions are bad decisions but I\u2019m an amazing police officer,\u201d\u00a0Candice Smith said.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Aside from felony convictions, offenses that violate an officer\u2019s oath of office or some domestic violence-related crimes \u2014 which all require automatic termination \u2014 disciplinary penalties are meted out and decided on exclusively by the NYPD\u2019s police commissioner, regardless of what a department judge recommends or how severe or minor the case is.<\/p>\n<p>All of them were accused of offenses that, if convicted, would have required automatic termination under state or federal law \u2014 including assault, menacing, stalking, strangulation and aggravated harassment \u2014 but their cases all saw favorable outcomes in criminal court.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear why the officers were allowed to keep their positions under the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/about\/about-nypd\/policy\/nypd-disciplinary-system-reforms.page\">NYPD\u2019s arcane disciplinary system<\/a>, which has long been shrouded in secrecy, criticized for its lack of transparency and accused of being nepotistic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Breaking_the_law_theyre_supposed_to_uphold\"><\/span><strong>Breaking the law they\u2019re supposed to u<\/strong>phold<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The 16 officers are among 445 NYPD employees who were arrested between 2017-2021 for crimes as banal as driving without a license to as serious as rape, child sexual exploitation and murder.<\/p>\n<p>The group \u2013 employed by the NYPD in civilian and uniformed roles \u2013 make up a whopping 52% of the at least 873 city workers arrested over those years.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of them, or 47%, were still employed by the department as of June. Some were even promoted after their arrests.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, the two agencies with the highest number of arrests in that same period after the NYPD, the FDNY and the Department of Correction, accounted for just 14% and 12% of arrests, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPolice crime occurs everywhere across the country in agencies big and small \u2026 These are systemic problems in policing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><cite>Bowling Green State University professor Philip Stinson<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>At least 24 members of the NYPD were arrested multiple times, some as many as four times, before they were finally terminated, or resigned, from the department, records show. At least five of those with multiple arrests, like Smith, were still employed by the department, including two school crossing guards and a 911 operator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are individuals who are sworn to uphold the law and we expect better of our police officers and that\u2019s why it\u2019s a problem,\u201d Bowling Green State University Professor Philip Stinson, who has been studying police crime nationwide since 2004, told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice crime occurs everywhere across the country in agencies big and small \u2026 These are systemic problems in policing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Rich Rivera, the policing director for Penns Grove, New Jersey and an expert in officer misconduct, said the cases identified by The Post are just the ones that got reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s more out there than what\u2019s being reported obviously because of the way law enforcement treat each other. A lot of times officers give each other breaks unnecessarily,\u201d Rivera said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe actually know how to break the law very well. We enforce the law, we know what the parameters are and some people tread that line very closely and some people cross it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Post\u2019s years-long investigation into officer arrests involved police records, court records, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> reports, interviews, law-enforcement sources, scholarly articles and other publicly available documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Second_chances\"><\/span><strong>Second chances<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Of the 16 officers who were accused of fireable offenses and found guilty of them internally, but still kept their jobs, three pleaded guilty to the crimes in state court \u2014 two to drunk driving and the other to disorderly conduct. The rest of the cases had already been sealed when The Post inquired about them.<\/p>\n<p>Among them was Sgt. Edel Sanchez \u2013 whose felony domestic violence case is sealed in the court system \u2014 but who was found guilty of the conduct internally by an NYPD administrative trial judge.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s internal administrative reviews of cops who\u2019ve been arrested h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens either at the same time the case plays out in criminal court or after. The department determines whether the officer was convicted of or engaged in conduct considered a misdemeanor or felony crime under state or federal law. They apply a lower standard of proof than the \u201cbeyond a reasonable doubt\u201d standard in criminal trials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/nypd-sergeant-arrested-for-strangulation-assault-harassment-police\/\">charged with felony strangulation<\/a>, assault and harassment for allegedly pinning down his wife and choking her in their Queens home in February 2018. Sanchez, who\u2019d been with the department for almost 14 years at the time, allegedly became enraged when his wife didn\u2019t wake him up and bring him to bed while he was asleep on the couch \u201clike a dog\u201d after a night of drinking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During his department trial, Sanchez claimed his wife falsely accused him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s unclear how his criminal case was resolved, an NYPD trial judge in April 2021 found Sanchez guilty of choking his wife and determined her story to be credible, noting in particular the visible bruises she had on her body after she reported the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-philip-casejpg.jpg?w=679\" alt=\"Philip Case.\" class=\"wp-image-24777179\" width=\"336\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-philip-casejpg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=669 672w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-philip-casejpg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=502 504w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-philip-casejpg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=334 336w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-philip-casejpg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=167 168w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-philip-casejpg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\"\/><figcaption>Officer Philip Case was arrested for menacing in 2019 after he allegedly pulled a gun on Kevin Skervin in a road rage incident.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>But instead of termination, the department docked Sanchez\u2019s pay 26 days, took away 30 vacation days and placed him on dismissal probation for a year where he would be fired if he broke any other department rules.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s currently back to full duty with his department firearm, working out of the transit bureau\u2019s anti-terrorism unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wish I could be able to talk about this and answer your questions but I can not,\u201d Sanchez told The Post when asked about the arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cop who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, Officer Philip Case, was also allowed to keep his job even after being found guilty of the conduct internally, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Case, then 49, was busted for menacing in Sept. 2019 after he allegedly pulled a gun on Kevin Skervin in a Queens road-rage incident and threatened to \u201cshoot and murder\u201d him while pointing his weapon at him and another passenger, Tomas Ortega Martinez.\u00a0At the time, Case had been working a side gig for the US Open tournament without the department\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n<p>About a month-and-a-half after the incident, the NYPD found that Case had displayed a gun during an argument and was guilty of menacing, harassment, wrongful threat of force and off-duty employment without permission. They docked his vacation days and put him on dismissal probation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In court, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, a violation and not a crime, which allowed the case to be sealed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These days, Case is back to full duty with his department firearm at the 79th precinct in Brooklyn and denies that he pulled out his gun and threatened Skervin and Martinez.\u00a0He is currently embroiled in a civil lawsuit brought by the two men.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/po-philip-case-01.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Philip Case.\" class=\"wp-image-24777159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/po-philip-case-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/po-philip-case-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/po-philip-case-01.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Case pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was allowed to keep his job.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Gabriella Bass<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe had a little road dispute. I cursed him out, he cursed me out. He said I had a firearm. My gun was at home,\u201d Case told The Post Tuesday, adding he\u2019s grateful to be back to full duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no proof of what I did. They just went along with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Numerous other cases show a similar trend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Police Officer Jeffrey Augustin was busted for allegedly choking his wife and threatening to kill her after getting into a fight over money in Nov. 2017 on Staten Island. The case is sealed in the court system but nearly two years later, an internal administrative review found he had assaulted someone twice and made a harassing phone call. He was suspended without pay for 13 days, ordered to undergo counseling and placed on dismissal probation for a year. These days, he\u2019s back to full duty, working out of the 84th precinct. He didn\u2019t return a request for comment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Police Officer Victor Cruz was busted for assault for allegedly attacking his girlfriend in April 2018 in Manhattan. The case is sealed but internally, he was found guilty of assault and he was ordered to undergo counseling, placed on dismissal probation and was docked a number of suspension days. These days, he\u2019s back to full duty, working out of the 44th precinct. He didn\u2019t return a request for comment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Police Officer Anthony Amirally was arrested in Dec. 2018 in The Bronx for allegedly choking his mom during a fight at the family\u2019s home. The charges were later dropped after the mom refused to cooperate and the case is now sealed but an internal administrative review found he was guilty of assault. He was ordered to undergo counseling, placed on dismissal probation for 12 months and docked 32 suspension days. These days, he\u2019s back to full duty, working out of the 28th precinct. He didn\u2019t return a request for comment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Det. Aliskender Raji was arrested for <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.com\/nypd-detective-aliskender-raji-32-arrested\/\">assault and criminal mischief<\/a> in Feb. 2020 in Queens for allegedly kicking his wife and smashing her cell phone. The case was sealed but an internal administrative review found he was guilty of assault and criminal mischief and he was ordered to undergo counseling, placed on dismissal probation for 12 months and docked 14 suspension days. These days, he\u2019s back to full duty, working out of the department\u2019s criminal intelligence section. He didn\u2019t return a request for comment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Police Officer Chon Huang was arrested for assault in May 2019 in Brooklyn for allegedly punching an e-bike driver who almost clipped his daughter. The case is sealed but internally, he was found guilty of assault and he was placed on dismissal probation, and docked 30 suspension days. These days, he\u2019s back to full duty, working out of Brooklyn\u2019s 94th precinct. He declined comment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Low_conviction_rates_sweetheart_deals\"><\/span>Low conviction rates, sweetheart deals <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Of the 908 total arrests involving city employees tracked by The Post between 2017 and 2021, just 21 are still pending in the court system. There is little information available about the cases that were adjudicated, because the vast majority of them are sealed.<\/p>\n<p>Cases are sealed when the charge is dismissed, the district attorney declined to prosecute or the defendant pled to a violation such as disorderly conduct, which is not a crime. It can also happen when the case ends with an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACD), where the judge orders that the charges be wiped as long as the accused stays out of trouble for a certain time period, usually six to 12 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bulk of the cases against NYPD staff involved violent and domestic violence-related offenses that are grounds for automatic termination, including assault, harassment, aggravated harassment, menacing and strangulation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under New York state law, any officer that is criminally convicted of a felony, or a misdemeanor that violates their oath of office \u2013 such as perjury, official misconduct, bribery, menacing, stalking, assault or aggravated harassment \u2013 is automatically terminated but still may be entitled to their pension.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Any law enforcement officer accused of most domestic violence offenses automatically faces termination because, under federal law, anyone convicted of such a crime can\u2019t have a firearm, which would preclude them from police work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> likelihood that NYPD employees will see a conviction on such offenses are slim. Between 2017 and 2021, cases involving NYPD employees led to convictions about 26% of the time, primarily for DWI offenses \u2014 compared to 38% of the general public who were prosecuted in the five boroughs during that same time period.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other city workers, like teachers and firefighters, were also more likely than their NYPD counterparts to see convictions in the court system, with an average of 31% of cases resulting in convictions.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD\u2019s disciplinary matrix states cops could still be penalized internally or fired after an arrest, regardless of what happens in court.<\/p>\n<p>But a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.bgsu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&amp;context=crim_just_pub\">2016 study on police crime<\/a> published by Stinson found cops are six times more likely to lose their jobs in violence-related cases if the officer is ultimately convicted in criminal court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProsecutors, to be able to do their daily bread and butter work, they rely on police officers showing up in court and cooperating with them on prosecutions, the run of the mill criminal cases, just the daily grind of prosecutors,\u201d said Stinson, who is considered the leading expert on police crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that in some instances, prosecutors are very reluctant in any way to piss off the police \u2026 so in cases that are not getting a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> attention especially, I think it\u2019s highly likely that police officers are more likely to get favorable outcomes than other defendants would in their criminal cases.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98I_had_the_evidence_%E2%80%A6_it_was_still_not_enough%E2%80%98\"><\/span>\u2018<strong>I had the evidence \u2026  it was still not enough<\/strong>\u2018<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When Melissa\u2019s boyfriend NYPD Police Officer Christopher Valencia strangled her, held her prisoner, busted her lip and bit her so hard on her leg, it drew blood, she was confident the case would succeed in court.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After all, she was a police officer herself and she believed she had the evidence necessary to bring a case \u2013 photos of her injuries, text messages of him admitting to the crimes and witnesses who saw parts of the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a cop I knew I had the evidence that I would need and apparently it was still not enough,\u201d Melissa, now 27, told The Post in a recent interview, asking that she only be identified by her first name.<\/p>\n<p>The Post reviewed photos of Melissa\u2019s injuries and text messages from Valencia admitting to the attacks.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"905\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia1.jpg?w=905\" alt=\"Christopher Valencia.\" class=\"wp-image-24777372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1810 1810w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1357 1357w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=905 905w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=452 452w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\"\/><figcaption>Officer Christopher Valencia strangled his girlfriend, held her hostage, and bit her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Melissa reported the attacks in Jan. 2021, which happened on two separate occasions in Queens and in Suffolk County, Long Island about a year prior, prosecutors at the Queens County District Attorney\u2019s Public Corruption Bureau were reluctant to try the case, she alleged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The assistant district attorney assigned to the case asked her, \u201cWell did you ask for that?\u201d and told her that to an outsider, her injuries \u201cjust look like rough sex,\u201d Melissa alleged.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s like, \u2018You\u2019re a cop you get it\u2019 and I\u2019m like, \u2018I know I\u2019m a cop but no I didn\u2019t ask for him to do this to me,\u2019\u201d Melissa recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said that if he got charged with [a domestic violence related offense] he would lose his job. I said \u2018he shouldn\u2019t have the job\u2019 \u2026\u00a0 she\u2019s like, \u2018Well I can\u2019t just be OK with that because he\u2019s a cop.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I left there I was just hysterical crying. They made me feel like I was doing the wrong thing and I felt they were just trying to protect him because he was a police officer \u2026 they didn\u2019t want more poor attention on the police department.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Melissa was prepared to go to trial and had numerous trial prep dates with prosecutors \u2014 but soon learned they decided to offer Valencia an ACD after he completed 26 domestic violence\/anger management treatment sessions, which would seal the case after a year. <\/p>\n<p>She told them she didn\u2019t agree with the decision and still wanted to move ahead with trial, but was told the matter was settled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverything was there, I had all the evidence, I knew what he did wasn\u2019t right and I knew I was prepared and for them to just make a deal \u2026 I just felt so defeated,\u201d said Melissa, who has since left the NYPD and moved to North Carolina.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt scares me that one day he\u2019ll have a gun again and will be interacting with the public.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Valencia is still employed by the NYPD on modified duty nearly two years after his arrest. It is unclear if there are any internal disciplinary proceedings against Valencia currently underway. He didn\u2019t return a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response, a spokesperson for the Queens County District Attorney\u2019s Office said \u201cthe disposition was appropriate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith these facts and two parties who were not police officers, the outcome would have been exactly the same,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cWhen the 2019 crime was reported by the complainant [a year and a half] later, the defendant was charged in accordance with the facts of the case.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The office said the injuries \u2014 including bitemarks left permanently etched on Melissa\u2019s legs \u2014  didn\u2019t meet the standard for felony assault.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the 16 officers found guilty internally yet still employed, Valencia is one of 31 cops identified by The Post who\u2019ve kept their jobs after they were accused of fireable offenses. But he, like the others, saw favorable outcomes in the court system. Any internal disciplinary measures against them are either unclear or underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia2.jpg?w=509\" alt=\"Christopher Valencia.\" class=\"wp-image-24777380\" width=\"302\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=604 604w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=453 453w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=302 302w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=151 151w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-christopher-valencia2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\"\/><figcaption>Valencia is still employed by the NYPD on modified duty nearly two years after his arrest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Among them is also Police Officer Ernie Moran, who faced automatic termination after he was charged with <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jacksonheightspost.com\/off-duty-cop-arrested-in-queens-for-harassing-and-stalking-his-ex-girlfriend-nypd\">aggravated harassment and stalking<\/a> on July 8, 2020 for sending his ex-girlfriend multiple text messages stating \u201che was outside her house\u201d and \u201chad his firearm and would kill whoever she was with.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moran, then 34, had been dumped three months prior but continued to call his ex \u201cmultiple times on a daily basis,\u201d showed up at her house after she asked him to stop contacting her and once got into a fight with a man he thought she was dating.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victim told cops she was afraid for her safety because Moran had allegedly physically abused her throughout their relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Dec. 2021, Moran pleaded to fourth-degree criminal mischief, which isn\u2019t an oath-violating offense, and was sentenced to $22,000 in restitution, court records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a year after his conviction, he is still employed with the NYPD, working on modified duty out of a Bronx courthouse and collecting tens of thousands of dollars in overtime and extra compensation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if there are any internal disciplinary proceedings against Moran currently underway. He didn\u2019t return a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1016\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-ernie-moran.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Ernie Moran.\" class=\"wp-image-24777155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-ernie-moran.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-ernie-moran.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-nypd-ernie-moran.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Officer Ernie Moran was charged with aggravated harassment and stalking on July 8, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOfficers who are convicted, even officers convicted of misdemeanors, I would argue shouldn\u2019t be police officers,\u201d said Stinson.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey violated the public trust and we have to work hard to maintain police accountability but also police legitimacy and if the citizenry doesn\u2019t view their police officers as legitimate because of officers who were being convicted of misdemeanors are still working it could lead to erosion in the trust in police.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Convoluted_nepotistic_disciplinary_system\"><\/span>Convoluted, nepotistic disciplinary system<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In the case of Smith, the disposition of her 2011 arrest is unclear and the 2017 bust on assault charges is sealed. Following her June 2020 arrest for drunk driving, she pleaded guilty to driving while impaired and her license was suspended for 90 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was disciplined internally over her 2017 bust for assault where she was found guilty of an off-duty physical altercation and placed on dismissal probation for 12 months, ordered to undergo breath testing and docked 30 days pay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even though Smith\u2019s third arrest was more than two years ago, she was only suspended without pay at the beginning of November, and is now \u201ccurrently separating from the department,\u201d an NYPD spokesperson claimed this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s department trial wrapped up in July, the spokesperson said. She\u2019d been on modified duty and collecting her paycheck as recently as November 1.<\/p>\n<p>For years, the NYPD\u2019s disciplinary process was criticized for a myriad of reasons and shrouded in secrecy, prompting an overhaul of the system in Jan. 2021 that sought to improve \u201cfairness and efficacy\u201d and reduce inconsistencies and oversights.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Keith Taylor, a former NYPD Internal Affairs supervisor who is now an Adjunct Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said the department had \u201chistoric issues with certain groups getting disparate treatment\u201d over others when it came to discipline and noted that nepotism had long played a role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In one case identified by The Post, Lt. Marykate Mullan was assigned to the NYPD\u2019s Internal Affairs Squad and had been with the department for nearly 20 years when she was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2017\/03\/nypd-lieutenant-arrested-dwi-charges-middle-village-fender-bender-cops\/\">arrested for drunk driving<\/a> after getting into an accident in March 2017 in Queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She pleaded guilty to driving while impaired and an internal administrative review also found she had driven drunk. She was placed on dismissal probation, ordered to undergo counseling, docked 20 vacation days and suspended without pay for 23 days, among other penalties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the conviction, Mullan was not demoted or terminated and instead, was given a discretionary \u201cspecial assignment\u201d promotion about three years later. <\/p>\n<p>The promotion came with a salary increase, which bumped her total pay with overtime from $159,676 in 2019 to $218,362 in 2020 and $226,050 in 2021 until she left the department the following year. She declined comment.<\/p>\n<p>Det. Michael Gries was busted for drunken driving in Brooklyn in Oct. 2017, about a year and a half after he\u2019d been promoted to the rank, and was convicted of the offense and later found guilty of it internally as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He was placed on dismissal probation, ordered to undergo counseling and docked 10 vacation days, among other penalties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the conviction, he was never demoted from his role and instead, was promoted to a second-grade detective sometime between 2021 and 2022. He didn\u2019t return a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are certain groups that may have more connections \u2026 they have people that they can reach out to both in the executive level as well as the political class who can help them with these [cases],\u201d explained Taylor.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome other groups may not have access to that kind of power to intercede in the disciplinary process.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, Det. John Glynn was demoted after his drunk driving bust in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Glynn, whose Jan. 2019 case is sealed in the court system, was demoted to the rank of police officer in Feb. 2020 after a year and a half as a detective.\u00a0He didn\u2019t comment when reached by The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe may not have had any friends in high places,\u201d Taylor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While each officer arrest is handled on a case-by-case basis internally, Taylor said such instances of disparate treatment are one of the reasons why the disciplinary matrix was reformed in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The results of the reform are a convoluted labyrinth of \u201cpresumptive penalties,\u201d \u201cmitigated\u201d and \u201caggravated\u201d penalties for a wide range of offenses, both criminal and internal, that almost always come down to the police commissioner\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n<p>Officers who deny the charges against them can contest them in an internal trial but the process can take years and in the meantime, they\u2019re allowed to remain on modified duty and collect their full salaries.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-marykate-mullan.jpg?w=773\" alt=\"Lt. Marykate Mullan.\" class=\"wp-image-24777156\" width=\"307\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-marykate-mullan.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=607 614w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-marykate-mullan.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=455 460w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-marykate-mullan.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=304 307w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-marykate-mullan.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=152 153w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/domestic-violence-marykate-mullan.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\"\/><figcaption>Lt. Marykate Mullan was not demoted or terminated after pleading guilty to drunk driving in 2017.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Steve White<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite the reforms, connections within the police department still appear to prevail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Det. Nalik Zeigler, whose parents were two NYPD bigwigs \u2013 former NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Equal Employment Opportunity Neldra Zeigler and former Chief of Community Affairs Douglas Zeigler \u2013 was busted for drunk driving and allegedly crashing into parked cars in Oct. 2018 in Manhattan just weeks after his dubious promotion to second-grade detective seven years into his NYPD career.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty to drunk driving internally and was placed on dismissal probation, among other penalties \u2014 but it took three years for the case to move through the courts.<\/p>\n<p>By then, the disciplinary reforms were already in place and under the current standards, drunk driving with aggravating factors, such as crashing into cars and causing property damage, could lead to termination, or at the very least a demotion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, more than a year after Zeigler was found guilty in criminal court of drunk driving, he is yet to be demoted or face any other known internal discipline and remains at the department\u2019s cushy Intelligence Bureau. <\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t comment when reached by The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Rotten_to_the_core\"><\/span><strong>Rotten to the core<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To understand why NYPD employees are more likely to be arrested than their fellow city workers, Dr. Thomas Coghlan said the problem lies within the department internally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The clinical psychologist, who is a retired NYPD detective and a therapist for members of law enforcement, first responders and their families, pointed to the high rate of civilian arrests within the department as evidence of a larger, internal breakdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe concern is with the department as an entity, as an employer, right? Why does this employer represent this disproportionate piece of the data?\u201d said Coghlan, who is also an adjunct professor of forensic psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe department is a toxic workplace, it\u2019s a toxic cesspool that when you sit in it long enough, you become toxic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Coghlan said the internal stress that comes from working for the NYPD, both in civilian and uniformed roles, leads to a \u201cwhirlwind of maladaptive coping mechanisms\u201d and concerning behaviors that \u201cleads us down the road to arrests.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A lot of that stress comes from the issues highlighted in a Post expos\u00e9 about the reasons why officers are leaving the department in droves, including forced overtime, poor work life balance and the NYPD\u2019s history of nepotism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPunitive paradigms, draconian policies and autocratic hierarchical system, nepotistic behavior \u2026 we know that the agency created stressors, the organizational stressors, that is where the stress in police work really exists,\u201d said Coghlan, citing research.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When you couple organizational stressors with the general stress and trauma of being a police officer, occupational stressors like mandated overtime and canceled days off, and add in family and social stressors, \u201cit is like gasoline on a fire,\u201d said Coghlan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou become physically and mentally exhausted, you develop a heightened sense of pessimism and cynicism, low sense of fulfillment, low sense of efficacy within your job roles,\u201d explained Coghlan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen that behavior comes home with you, your mood decompensates, you develop a more apathetic mood to things, you develop a more indifferent mood and that permeates throughout your personality \u2026 Operating in that type of structure long enough causes a tremendous amount of discord in people\u2019s personal lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While getting arrested can have a significant impact on an officer\u2019s credibility, at the end of the day, cops are \u201chuman beings\u201d with \u201chuman behaviors\u201d who are \u201cabsolutely\u201d capable of rehabilitation, argued Rivera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s definitely a road to redemption,\u201d said Rivera.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt might be a humbling experience for the individual, you can absolutely rehabilitate an officer. What becomes problematic is if the officer has no credibility or their truthfulness has been brought to question. That you can\u2019t come back from.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"702\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/samantha-medina-03.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Samantha Medina.\" class=\"wp-image-24777170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/samantha-medina-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/samantha-medina-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/samantha-medina-03.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Officer Samantha Medina was busted for DWI and leaving the scene of an accident that caused injuries in 2018.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Steven Hirsch<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In response to The Post\u2019s investigation, an NYPD spokesperson said employee arrests are a \u201csevere\u201d concern to the department because \u201cour members are expected to exhibit higher standards than the general public given their profession and the duties they perform each day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a member is arrested, not only do they face the potential consequences of the criminal justice system, but they are subject to additional, and fervent, scrutiny from our internal investigations and by our disciplinary system, where appropriate,\u201d the spokesperson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of the events referenced [by The Post] occurred before the institution of the NYPD Disciplinary Matrix, which took effect in January 2021, and was the product of a collaborative effort with the CCRB and other interested stakeholders to ensure consistency in our process and that appropriate penalties are meted out \u2013 including termination, when necessary. The Matrix is not a static document and can be amended to address concerns and patterns seen within the disciplinary process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Additional reporting by Desheania Andrews, Reuven Fenton and Kevin Sheehan<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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