{"active":false,"first_name":"Matthew","last_name":"Monkowski","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"SGT","command":{"command":"NARCBBS","assignment_date":"2020-08-06","id":"172"},"shield_no":4545,"ended_date":"2022-06-02","taxid":"930757","complaint_ids":[201810367,201808958,201804985,201705655,201510358,201407006,201202716,200904125],"command_history":[{"command":"067 PCT","id":"67pct"},{"command":"079 PCT","id":"79pct"}],"appt_date":"2002-07-01","age":45,"middle_initial":"A","shield_no_history":[738],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Abdikrimov, Dulat vs City of Ny, et al.","start_date":"2025-04-03","payout_amount":0,"disposition":"","docket":"534264/2024","court":"Supreme Court - Kings"},{"name":"Smith, Christopher vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-12-16","disposition_date":"2020-12-28","payout_amount":22500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"522871/2019","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","officer_name":"Monkowski, Matthew A.","summary":"On July 23, 2018, at approximately 3:00 p.m. plaintiff Christopher Smith, while lawfully in the vicinity of 580 Albany Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, was subject to an unlawful stop, question, frisk, search, false arrest, and false imprisonment by the defendant New York City police officers. Plaintiff did not commit any crime and Defendant did not have any probable Cause. Defendant officers Under Cover officer. Defendant Matthew Monkowski and John Does 1-10, did not recover any drugs, weapons, or other illegal contraband in plaintiff's possession. Plaintiff was unlawfully imprisoned at the 71st Precinct and subjected to an illegal strip search including police officers stripped plaintiff of all of his clothes, spread his buttocks and searched his buttock. Defendants did not recover any contraband. Plaintiff was detained for more than 24 hours in unlawful custody. Plaintiff was unlawfully charged with Criminal Sale of Crack Cocaine, knowing the charges were incorrect. Plaintiff was maliciously prosecuted and denied the right to due process and a fair trial until all charges against plaintiff were dismissed by motion of the District Attorney’s office on January 25, 2019. Plaintiff was deprived of his constitutional and common law rights when the individual defendants unlawfully stopped, questioned, frisked, searched, confined, falsely arrested, falsely imprisoned, illegally stripped searched, maliciously prosecuted and denied plaintiff the right to due process and a fair trial in violation of the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the common law and the laws of the State of New York.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=Zh4/wrR8qYuGr3n9a1VMVw==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Young, Kareem vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-07-19","disposition_date":"2020-11-06","payout_amount":9000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"19CV04040","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Monkowski, Matthew A.","summary":"On July 19, 2018, at approximately 5:45 am, approximately 20 NYPD officers, without probable cause, entered the home of Plaintiff Young, ransacked it, and arrested him. Individual Defendants supplied false testimony and fabricated evidence of crack cocaine in the Plaintiff's home. Plaintiff charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, but the charges were eventually dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.435774/gov.uscourts.nyed.435774.13.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15913120/young-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Eleazer, Shawana vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-04-02","disposition_date":"2019-09-26","payout_amount":14000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"502085/2019","court":"Supreme Court - Kings","officer_name":"Monkowski, Matthew A.","summary":"On June 3,2017, plaintiff lawfully received treatment at a methadone clinic and was prescribed two doses to take at home by the clinic. Plaintiff then entered a friend's car outside the clinic, which was immediately surrounded by officers. Plaintiff advised them that she had the liquid methadone and showed her id card which showed she was a patient of the clinic. The officers made no effort to verify is the plaintiff was legally allowed to have the methadone. \n   The plaintiff's friend then told the officers they were harassing them. Sergeant Monkowski next told the other officers \"we are going to lock them up\" and the officers immediately arrested plaintiff and her friend unlawfully. Plaintiff was then taken to the station, held for 5 hours, and given a Desk Appearance Ticket for unlawfully possessing the methadone.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=7W6hzCTZYhssYrb0d/3Yvg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Cummings et al v. City of New York et al","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","payout_amount":3500,"disposition":"Settlement","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5378865-Cummings-et-al-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5378867-Cummings-et-al-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"04CV02429","officer_name":"Matthew A. Monkowski"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21026649-monkowski-7ba67cd8f694327bdc536100abe14f2255508b89","type":"brady-giglio"}],"id":"R5BH","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/R5BH"}