{"active":true,"first_name":"James","last_name":"Hart","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"LT","command":{"command":"079 PCT","assignment_date":"2019-05-27","id":"79pct"},"taxid":"947065","complaint_ids":[202407609,202301403,202201773,202101726,202004872,201503426,201212887,201205752,201113354,201011158,201006582,201006058],"command_history":[{"command":"MTS PCT","id":"MTSpct"},{"command":"001 PCT","id":"1pct"}],"appt_date":"2008-07-08","age":39,"middle_initial":"V","shield_no_history":[19180,1570],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Jacks, Bilal vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2026-02-09","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"503890/2026","court":"Supreme Court - Kings"},{"name":"Holley, Eddie vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2025-06-26","disposition_date":"2026-03-12","payout_amount":25000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"25CV02883","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/70347285/holley-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Nelson, Cardin vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2022-09-08","disposition_date":"2025-05-27","payout_amount":25000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"525640/2022","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On November 28, 2021 at approximately 5:00 p, the defendant police officers, Alex Serrano (shield # 20206), Lt James Hart (shield #1570) and Sgt. Jung Kim (shield # 4046), unlawfully detained and arrested the plaintiff, Cardin Nelson in the vicinity of 241 Taffee Place, County of Kings, New York. Mr. Nelson was carrying out his duties as an overnight security guard at an LGBT homeless shelter when the defendant officers approached him and asked for his name and identification. When he responded that they did not have a warrant or probable cause, the defendant police officers forced their way into the premises and placed Mr. Nelson under arrest, using handcuffs that they applied in a fashion that was extremely tight.\n\nThe defendant officers ignored Mr. Nelson's requests to loosen the handcuffs, causing him to suffer severe pain in his fingers. Mr. Nelson was transported against his will to the 79th Precinct, where he was held for approximately four hours. He was then transported to Kings County Central Booking, where he was held for the next twenty-two hours. While Mr. Nelson was in custody, the defendant police officers provided false and misleading information to the Kings County District Attorney's office, claiming that Mr. Nelson had obstructed a governmental administration. Mr. Nelson was subsequently released from Central Booking with no charges.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240618154957/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=bLkZmsDUTM2ts5x8aJaSCQ==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Grinkley, Alice, et al. vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2021-10-12","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"521749/2021","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","summary":"On January 5, 2020, in the vicinity of 260 Herkimer Street in Brooklyn, several NYPD officers threatened the plaintiffs who lived there to let them in, or they would use excessive for or violence. The defendants did not have consent or a lawful search warrant to enter the plaintiff's home. Nonetheless, the defendants without consent entered the plaintiff's home and ransacked the home while searched it and destroyed property. The plaintiffs did not violate any law, commit any criminal act, or act in a suspicious or unlawful manner. Plaintiffs suffered personal injuries, an invasion of privacy, conversion of property, financial loss, and emotional pain.","documents":[{"url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20240716155457/https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=1OVlze3RV9nzQbvhkexCPw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Leon, Ivan vs Police Officer Hart, James, et al.","start_date":"2014-05-19","disposition_date":"2014-06-23","payout_amount":25000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV09243","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Hart, James V.","summary":"On April 11, 2013, Plaintiff was in New York Downtown Hospital where his wife had just given birth.  He was stopped by security.  NYPD Police Officers James Hart, Charles Kosa, Daniel Dagaetano, Dennis Burgos and others arrived, assaulted him causing him to lose consciousness.  He awoke in a police precinct, having been falsely arrested.  They then falsely charged him.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.421884/gov.uscourts.nysd.421884.9.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4353162/leon-v-hart/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22119081-947065_12082016_2016118pdf","date":"2016-12-08T00:00:00.000Z","type":"trial-decision"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21024067-hart-512b34eccea28bb5286f4240ef4aa06b59ef4638","type":"brady-giglio"}],"payroll":{"salary":"154751","regular":"150396","overtime":"38685","other":"32229","total":"221310"},"id":"K5MF","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/K5MF"}