{"active":false,"first_name":"Frederick","last_name":"Davis","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"POM","command":{"command":"TB DT30","id":"TB30"},"shield_no":15058,"ended_date":"2018-06-01","taxid":"921263","lawsuits":[{"name":"Bowen, Nicholas vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2015-04-20","disposition_date":"2017-01-04","payout_amount":105000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV06811","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Davis, Fred","summary":"On November 20 2008, Plaintiff Nicholas Bowen was issued a citation for criminal trespass at a public housing complex in the Bronx, for which he received a conditional discharge. In January 2009, despite his compliance with the discharge, a warrant was erroneously issued for Mr. Bowen's appearance in Bronx Criminal Court. He appeared on February 11, 2009, and the judge vacated and expunged the bench warrant, but it remained as an open warrant in the NYPD database until April 15, 2015. During the six year period, Mr. Bowen was frequently arrested on the basis of the NYPD database warrant, even though a state database that should be consulted per NYPD policy correctly reflected the closed warrant, and despite a document certifying the warrant's expiration issued by an arraigning judge. The first wrongful arrest was between February 11, 2009 and November 13, 2010, when NYPD officers stopped Plaintiff for riding his bike on the sidewalk leaving a public housing complex parking lot at Euclid Avenue and Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn, and arrested him on the basis of the expired warrant, causing him to spend several days in Rikers Island pending appearance. Before he appeared before a judge, Plaintiff was released. The second wrongful arrest was on November 13, 2010, when Plaintiff was arrested for having an open container of alcohol. Based on the expired warrant, officers took Plaintiff into custody overnight, and when Planitiff appeared before Kings County Criminal Court, the presiding judge gave him a document certifying the warrant was closed. On September 2, 2012, Mr. Bowen was wrongfully arrested a third time in a park in Brooklyn near closing time, causing him to be held overnight on the basis of the closed warrant, before the court determined the warrant was closed on the following day, September 3. The underlying charges on being in a park past closing time were dismissed on March 1, 2013. On July 17, 2013, Mr. Bowen was wrongfully arrested a fourth time on the A subway line at the Hoyt-Schemerhorn station by Officer Danna Davis. Officer Davis refused to consider Plaintiff's documentation proving the warrant was closed and she refused to run Plaintiff's name through the state CRIMS database. Plaintiff and his companion were both arrested and transported to the precinct, where they were held for several hours. Plaintiff informed officers that he required medication during booking, so he was transported to New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn with his companion. Plaintiff was placed in leg shackles and he was eventually put in a bed for initial triage around 4:30 AM on July 18, 2013. Plaintiff fell asleep and was awoken by Officer Williams, who informed him that he was being discharged. Plaintiff protested that he had not seen a doctor, then Officer Williams told him a doctor had given him an injection while sleeping, to which Plaintiff protested that he could be allergic. Officer Williams and a second officer then injured his shoulder, arms, and leg when they toppled Plaintiff off a hospital gurney, handcuffed him behind his back and dragged him, shackled and face-down, 45 feet across the hospital floor by his handcuffed arms, causing a nurse to intervene. Upon arrival at the squad car, Officer Williams dumped Plaintiff out of the wheelchair and on to the ground. Then Officer John Smith and Officer Fred Davis forcibly restrained and transported Plaintiff. After spending the night in jail, Plaintiff appeared in Kings County Criminal Court, where the presiding judge confirmed that the warrant was closed and instructed Plaintiff to continue to carry his exculpatory document. The subway offense was dismissed on January 17, 2014. On October 9, 2013, Plaintiff filed a notice of claim with the City of New York regarding the false arrests and excessive force. On April 15, 2015, the Court ordered the city to check the status of the warrant in the police database, which resulted in Detective John Sabino clearing the warrant from the NYPD database. In addition to these four arrests, plaintiff was arrested on at least two other occasions between February 11, 2009 and April 15, 2015.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4922261-Bowen-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.363219.63.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4922260-Bowen-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4520358/bowen-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"id":"D3NK","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/D3NK"}