{"active":false,"first_name":"Jeff","last_name":"Harris","race":"Black","gender":"Male","rank":"DT2","command":{"command":"NARCBMN","id":"250"},"shield_no":1542,"ended_date":"2016-02-01","taxid":"914803","complaint_ids":[201411647,201301959,200902827,200715221,200703725],"appt_date":"1995-01-30","lawsuits":[{"name":"Armstrong, Joshua vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-11-16","disposition_date":"2020-04-10","payout_amount":40000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"158455/2016","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"On December 13, 2014, at approximately 5:00 PM, Plaintiff Joshua Armstrong, a Black man, was inside Prince Deli & Grocery on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan when members of the NYPD including Defendants Detective Sid Caesar, Detective Gregory Carty, Detective Manuel Cordova, Detective Jeff Harris, Sergeant Robert Kelly, and Detective Angus Mackenzie. Defendant Detective Caesar, without just cause or provocation, struck Plaintiff causing Plaintiff to sustain serious physical injuries. Each of the Defendants failed to intervene to stop the offense. The Defendants thereafter handcuffed Plaintiff and placed him under arrest for criminal sale of a controlled substance and initiated criminal proceedings against him, despite the Defendants’ knowledge that they lacked reasonable grounds or probable cause for doing so. Defendants did not make a full statement of facts to the District Attorney, withheld exculpatory evidence, and acted with malice in initiating and continuing criminal proceedings against Plaintiff. Defendants were motivated in part by the NYPD's custom of targeting minority males to meet arrest quotas.\n\nPlaintiff was taken to the 25th Precinct for processing, thereafter to Manhattan Central Booking for arraignment, and then to Rikers Island. Plaintiff was incarcerated from December 13, 2014 until December 17, 2014, when he was released from custody. On August 5, 2015, Plaintiff was acquitted of all charges. As a result of the incident and ensuing wrongful arrest, Plaintiff has sustained physical injuries, emotional distress, embarrassment, humiliation, and deprivation of his constitutional rights.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=_PLUS_IrqDHqVr_PLUS_rpcyDK2ZUPuA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"White, Anthony, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-10-26","disposition_date":"2019-10-25","payout_amount":36000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"16CV06925","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"On June 4, 2015, plaintiffs were seated in a parked motor vehicle when defendant officers ordered plaintiffs out of the vehicle, arrested and tightly handcuffed them despite lacking probable cause. Plaintiffs were unlawfully searched and strip-searched. Criminal proceedings were commenced against plaintiffs based on false evidence created and manufactured by defendant officers. All charges were ultimately dimissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.462323.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4524389/white-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Loving, Tyrone vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-03-31","disposition_date":"2020-06-05","payout_amount":75000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"151280/2016","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"On June 10, 2014, without just cause or provocation, an unknown Defendant NYPD officer approached Plaintiff and immediately grabbed them. The Defendant handcuffed Plaintiff and placed Plaintiff under arrest without just cause or provocation. Plaintiff was transported to the precinct, where they were strip-searched and confined to a cell. Plaintiff was intentionally and falsely accused of committing the crime of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree. All charges against Plaintiff were eventually dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=BEAwZ1jucQ_PLUS_nA/u4BorItA==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Albarano, John vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-12-28","disposition_date":"2016-07-22","payout_amount":1000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV08433","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"Mr. Albarano was the passenger on the vehicle he was traveling with his wife. Detectives approached the vehicle without identifying themselves and told plaintiff to step out of the vehicle. He did as was told. He then told the detectives that he was a retired police officer and that he was armed and where it was located, to which one of the detectives responded \"I have a white guy with a gun in the street, how will it look if I let him go\" and handcuffed and arrested the plaintiff. He was later released with a DAT","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4921532-Albarano-v-New-York-City-et-al","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13247602/albarano-v-new-york-city/"},{"name":"Benks, Brandon vs Harris, Jeff, et al.","start_date":"2015-09-04","disposition_date":"2016-01-22","payout_amount":1000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV03201","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"On March 5, 2014, Brandon Benks on 111th streeth when he was physically assaulted by P.O.s Roberto Cordero, Angus MacKenzie, Uke Evaristus, Jorge Tobon, Mark McDonald, Jeff Harris, Manuel Cordovoa, and Gregory Carty causing two teeth to break and his right rotator cuff to be torn. P.O.s broke Benks phone card and tablet and took money from him. P.O.s strip searched him on the street and in public.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4928002-Benks-v-Cordero-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.426761/gov.uscourts.nysd.426761.61.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13245451/benks-v-cordero/"},{"name":"Thompson, David vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-05-07","disposition_date":"2016-12-20","payout_amount":35000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV03574","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"Defendant Officers approached plaintiff on the street, searched him, and accused him of selling a controlled substance.  Plaintiff was arrested and held in custody for 8 months where he was denied his necessary medications until all charges against him were dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920764-Thompson-v-City-of-New-York-et-al","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4523130/thompson-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Ortiz, Simon vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-04-15","disposition_date":"2015-11-03","payout_amount":12000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV02915","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"On July 11, 2014, Plaintiff Simon Ortiz was present in his local Harlem bodega.  Defendant police officer Jeff Harris approached Plaintiff and asked \"Do you know who I am?\"  Plaintiff did not know who Harris was, and so ignored him.  Defendant Harris began shouting \"Do you know who I am?\" at Plaintiff.  Harris then stuck his hands inside Plaintiff's pocket, planted an illicit substance in the pocket, pulled the substance out, and stated \"look what I got here.\"  Plaintiff was then violently removed from the bodega, thrown against the building, and very tightly handcuffed.  Plaintiff was taken to a local precinct, strip-searched, held for 24 hours, and charged with possession of heroin.  After numerous court appearances at which Defendants failed to appear, charges against plaintiff were terminated.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.440991/gov.uscourts.nysd.440991.9.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13246135/ortiz-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Siler, Omar vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-01-13","disposition_date":"2015-06-29","payout_amount":17000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"15CV00189","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"On May 31, 2014, the Plaintiff, Mr. Omar Siler, was sitting outside his friend's apartment building, waiting to be buzzed into the building. A man leaving the building held the door open for Mr. Siler, and as Mr. Siler approached the door, a Defendant undercover NYPD officer in plain clothes, who did not identify himself, chased Mr. Siler into the building, up to the roof, and down the fire escape to the building's backyard. Once Mr. Siler reached the backyard, a group of individual defendant officers standing behind a gate shouted at him to get on the ground, while one pointed his gun at him. Mr. Siler lay on the ground. For a few minutes, the defendants tried to figure out how to get around the gate and into the backyard. During this time, they continued shouting at him. This include curses and threats to shoot him if he moved. When one defendant finally reached Mr. Siler, he kicked and stomped Mr. Siler repeatedly in the shoulder, torso, and head, and viciously pulled Mr. Siler's arm behind his back while still applying force to his prone torso. That defendant then handcuffed Mr. Siler behind his back and took him to the front of the building. There, one of the defendants strip searched Mr. Siler, and inserted his fingers into his anus to search his anal cavity. No drugs or contraband were recovered from this search. \nMr. Siler was placed in a police van, where he was kept for about six hours while the police picked up other arrestees. Then, he was taken to a precinct, where he was again strip searched. This search involved an order to Mr. Siler to manipulate his genitals as well as a visual inspection of his anus. At the precinct, Defendant NYPD Detective Harris tried to convince Mr. Siler to confess to selling drugs. After a few hours at the Precinct, Mr. Siler was taken to Central Booking. The DA declined to press charges. Plaintiff was brought before a judge on a separate earlier unresolved charge, which the judge dismissed on the spot, setting Mr. Siler free immediately. After he was released, Mr. Siler went to the hospital, because he needed treatment due to the beating he received from the police.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.437149/gov.uscourts.nysd.437149.9.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/17493888/siler-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Smith, Melvin vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-09-10","disposition_date":"2018-07-02","payout_amount":40000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"155550/2014","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"On March 8, 2013, defendant detectives Jose Sandobal, Tyrone Viruct, Jeff Harris, sergeant Joseph Serrano, and additional defendant police officers assaulted the Plaintiff while he was lawfully walking in the vicinity of 71 West 112th Street, New York, NY. The defendants grabbed Plaintiff and threw him onto the ground without provocation of legal justification. While the Plaintiff was on the ground the defendants continuously kicked, punched, and stomped Plaintiff's body, causing serious physical injuries including a fractured hand. The plaintiff did not resists and the defendants did not recover any weapons from the plaintiff. Plaintiff requested medical treatment but the defendants denied medical attention. Defendants not only assaulted and battered the plaintiff but failed to intervene to stop such assault and exhibited deliberate indifference and denial of medical care. When plaintiff was transported to Manhattan Central Booking for processing on March 9th, they refused to accept him because he had severe physical injuries. As a result of these events plaintiff suffered extreme psychological damage and significant and permanent physical injuries.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=mtE8ulpFBxBMqf3jn6QTew==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Epps, Allen vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-08-21","disposition_date":"2014-10-09","payout_amount":25000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"158195/2014","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"On October 26, 2013, plaintiff Allen Epps was walking down the street when he was approached by defendant NYPD officers, including officers Jeff Harris and Gregory Catty. Without a warrant or any reason for stopping him, defendant officers threw the plaintiff against a car and punched, assaulted and battered the plaintiff for no apparent reason. He was then falsely arrested and taken to a precinct where he was further punched. Ultimately, he was required to be transported to a hospital as a result of these unjustified assaults and has permanent injuries due to such. \n\nThe defendant officers then maliciously and falsely prosecuted the plaintiff, all of with all charges ultimately being dismissed on April 21, 2014.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=5RcKWK4GATifid1sVNhkTQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Brown, Sharron vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-05-29","disposition_date":"2015-11-20","payout_amount":15000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"151434/2014","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","summary":"On July 18, 2012, Plaintiff was unlawfully stopped, frisked, searched, detained, and falsely arrested by Detective Shawn Wilkinson, Detective Jeff Harris, Detective Steven Gansrow, and other unidentified NYPD officers from Narcotics Borough Manhattan North. Plaintiff was standing outside a grocery store when officers began chasing another individual in the area. The officers then approached Brown without cause, stopped him, and ordered him to empty his pockets and remove his shoes, despite lacking reasonable suspicion or probable cause. No contraband or illegal items were found.\n\nBrown was then handcuffed, transported to a precinct, and subjected to a second unlawful search before being taken to Manhattan Central Booking. Officers falsely charged him with possession of marijuana, despite no drugs being found in his possession. He was detained for approximately 30 hours before being arraigned and released on his own recognizance. The charges were later dismissed on November 13, 2012.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=su81uKJusIWW7vEUJh95Fg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"officer_name":"Harris, Jeffrey","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2010-06-09","disposition_date":"2013-05-22","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","docket":"10CV04535","name":"Jenkins, Betty, et Al vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":45000,"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4928057-Jenkins-et-al-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4928058-Jenkins-et-al-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/12959736/jenkins-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24441170-bronx-notified-officers-list-edited_redacted-redacted_redacted","type":"credibility-finding"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4418824-nypd-cases-326.html"}],"id":"BF85","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/BF85"}