{"active":false,"first_name":"Edward","last_name":"Gorczynski","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"VED MCS"},"shield_no":1421,"ended_date":"2020-09-01","taxid":"926895","lawsuits":[{"name":"Pickett, Taohn vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-12-03","disposition_date":"2015-07-01","payout_amount":10000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV09505","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Gorczynski, Edward","summary":"On August 29, 2013, Taohn Pickett was wrongfully detained by NYPD officers near St. Nicholas Avenue and 149th Street, New York, without probable cause. The officers, including Detective Edward Gorczynski and Sergeant Mark Siley, excessively tightened the handcuffs and refused to explain the arrest or loosen the handcuffs despite Pickett's requests. No contraband or evidence of a crime was found on Pickett. The officers engaged in \"flaking\" by falsely attributing illegal drugs to Pickett, leading to his arraignment and a bail set at $7,500. The charges against Pickett were dismissed on March 20, 2014.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.435743/gov.uscourts.nysd.435743.2.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13145300/pickett-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Griffin, Anthony vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-05-07","disposition_date":"2014-03-10","payout_amount":130000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV02773","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Gorczynski, Edward","summary":"On December 20, 2011, Anthony Griffin was arrested under allegations of drug sales in Manhattan, leading to a series of legal and procedural missteps by law enforcement. Despite the claim that Griffin sold drugs to Ruth Bennette, evidence and timelines provided in court documents and surveillance footage contradicted these allegations. Griffin underwent a humiliating strip search, including a humiliating and degrading strip and visual body cavity search, in which he was forced against his will to take all his clothes off, squat, spread his buttocks and cough. Griffin was brought before a judged and arraigned on a felony complaint which charged him with Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in Third Degree, and Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substanced on or NEar School Ground. In the respective complaint, Detective HIller, who was designated as the arresting officer, stated that he was informed by an undercover detective that the latter observed Mr. Griffin and Xavier Jackson \"acting in concert, hand separately charged Ruth Bennette Crack cocaine in exchange for U.S. currency. \n\nOn information and belief, based on the New York District Attorney’s Voluntary Disclosure Form prepared by Assistant District Attorney Craig Ascher, and the questions asked of Mr. Griffin by ADA Ascher in the grand jury, Detective Hiller and/or other of the Individual Defendants told ADA Ascher that they observed Mr. Griffin selling drugs on West 114th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Any such information implicating Mr. Griffin in the sale of drugs to Ms. Bennette was false. Griffin was arraigned and remained incarcerated until his release on January 18, 2012, with his case dismissed on December 18, 2012. Griffin neither posessed nor sold crack cocain or any other controlled substance on December 20, 2011.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges misconduct and false testimony by Detective Hiller and other officers involved, challenging the NYPD's strip search practices and the accuracy of their drug sale accusations.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.411073.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919839-Griffin-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4352107/griffin-v-the-city-of-new-york/"}],"image":"https://www.50-a.org/images/officer/LAM7-edward-gorczynski.jpg","id":"LAM7","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/LAM7"}