{"active":true,"first_name":"Denis","last_name":"Fitzgerald","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"LT","command":{"command":"CW T TF","assignment_date":"2026-07-29","id":"75"},"taxid":"952735","complaint_ids":[201908416,201906773],"command_history":[{"command":"TRB TED","id":"307"},{"command":"PSA 1","id":"PSA1"},{"command":"077 PCT","id":"77pct"}],"appt_date":"2012-07-11","shield_no_history":[4571,3038],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Forde, Ricardo vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-11-16","disposition_date":"2025-05-08","payout_amount":67500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"21CV04989","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","summary":"On September 3, 2018, the Plaintiff was outside a building in Brooklyn when Defendant NYPD Officer Reginald Smith, Randy Sanchez, Michael Desposito, and unknown officers began to shout and yell at the Plaintiff from an unmarked vehicle. The Defendants chased the Plaintiff and threw, shoved, and slammed him onto the entryway of a building. They punched the Plaintiff in his face, head, neck, and chest. The Defendants slammed the Plaintiff onto the ground and handcuffed him. After handcuffing the Plaintiff, the Defendants continued to beat the Plaintiff, including by punching, kicking, and holding him face down on the sidewalk with the weight of one of the officer's foot/boot on his back. The handcuffs were locked too tightly and the Plaintiff's hands swelled and went numb and his shoulders began tingling. The Defendants ignored his pleas to loosen the handcuffs. The Defendants denied the Plaintiff medical attention, did not read him his Miranda rights, and did not give him a phone call. For several hours, the Plaintiff was denied medical attention until he was transported to the hospital and subjected to psychiatric evaluation in the \"psych ward,\" confined for hours. The Plaintiff was then taken to Central Booking to be processed. At arraignment, he was given the retaliatory charge of resisting arrest. After the charges were dismissed on September 7, 2018, he remained imprisoned and spent additional days in state custody. On September 12, 2018, he was transferred to the custody of the US Marshal Service. Teh Defendants mislead, coerced, and/or failed to properly inform the Federal prosecutors.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.469121/gov.uscourts.nyed.469121.30.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60363839/forde-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Rubenstein, Steve vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2020-09-24","disposition_date":"2025-07-07","payout_amount":4750,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"517429/2020","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"on June 23, 2019, Plaintiff was lawfully present at the 77th Precinct where he was, seized, assaulted, battered, detained restrained, maliciously, and wrongfully ejected from the 77th precinct by Defendants including defendants FITZGERALD and CLAXTON.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240804223950/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=pd13NE_PLUS_ByRXSzgvfGerOVQ==","type":"complaint"}]}],"payroll":{"salary":"141684","regular":"136251","overtime":"7635","other":"14279","total":"158165"},"id":"JEPD","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/JEPD"}