{"active":true,"first_name":"Steven","last_name":"Betts","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"LT","command":{"command":"CW T TF","assignment_date":"2023-06-19","id":"75"},"taxid":"938062","complaint_ids":[202100050,201203423,201017414,201003373,200917898],"command_history":[{"command":"112 PCT","id":"112pct"},{"command":"106 PCT","id":"106pct"},{"command":"110 PCT","id":"110pct"}],"appt_date":"2005-07-11","middle_initial":"T","shield_no_history":[5295,1565],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Gounden, Kris vs Addabbo, Joseph, et al.","start_date":"2015-10-15","disposition_date":"2017-04-12","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"Zero Disposition","docket":"15CV04420","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Betts, Steven","summary":"In 2006, Kris Gounden bought lot 162 located at 1 Bayview Avenue, Queens – there was no public easement on the City’s official acquisitions map when Kris bought it. There was no public street on the City’s official acquisitions map on lot 162 when Kris bought it. Between 2006 and 2017, Gounden has had numerous contacts with police regarding the private nature of the entire lot. The City of New York filed suit against Kris to have his fence removed, claiming an easement existed. On May 29, 2013, the Environmental Control Board affirmed an ALJ’s decision, that there was no street on lot 162. In 2010, Kris fenced off his lot with a boulder and the Fire Department of the City of New York ordered the boulder removed on the ground that a boulder on private property constituted a fire hazard from accessing Kris’s eastern neighbors’ private lots. However, 60 yards from Kris’s northern boundary of lot 162 there are at least 10 houses with fences that prevent fire trucks from access – there was also a mapped public walkway to the east of Kris’s property by which fire hoses and emergency personnel are fire plan approved to Kris’s eastern neighbors’ houses. Since the Fire Department’s condemnation on Kris’s Property in 2012 or 2013, neither the Fire Department nor the City of New York has instituted Eminent Domain Procedure Law proceedings to map a public easement or public street on lot 162. On August 8, 2013, the City effected Kris’s arrest on the City’s policy that §189 of the Highway Law is applicable within the confines of the City of New York.\n\nOn Sep 9, 2013, Kris filed a Notice of Federal removal of the civil aspects of his criminal case. On Feb 10, 2014, Kris filed CPL 170.25 motion proposing a schedule in setting a date within which Kris was to file a 170.25 motion to Superior Court for prosecution by indictment – the motion detailed the complete lack of competence of a local Criminal Court to do anything other than set a date within which Kris was to file a 170.25 motion to Superior Court for prosecution by indictment. The Judges continued setting court dates and ignored Kris’s references to both the Notice of Federal Removal and State CPL 170.25.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23691290-2016_gounden_2016","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4324624/gounden-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"discipline":[{"disposition_date":"2022-06-27","case_no":"2022-25773","penalty":"A - Command Discipline","recommendation":"Command Discipline - A","allegations":[{"desc":"Wrongfully discourteous to an individual known to the Department."}]}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22085382-seh_938062","type":"employment-history"}],"image":"https://www.50-a.org/images/officer/9YR9-steven-betts.jpg","payroll":{"salary":"154751","regular":"142072","overtime":"71277","other":"25084","total":"238434"},"id":"9YR9","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/9YR9"}