{"active":false,"first_name":"Michael","last_name":"Solowitz","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"LT","command":{"command":"063 PCT","assignment_date":"2015-12-16","id":"63pct"},"ended_date":"2022-08-02","taxid":"923197","complaint_ids":[201910375,201807231,201710545,201307137,201204699,200401471,200204366],"command_history":[{"command":"079 PCT","id":"79pct"},{"command":"PSA 2","id":"PSA2"}],"appt_date":"1998-08-31","middle_initial":"H","shield_no_history":[22045,4215],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Gannaway, Rosalind vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-10-24","disposition_date":"2015-06-05","payout_amount":27500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV05702","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Solowitz, Michael H.","summary":"On August 9, 2012, plaintiff was at the home of a patient she cares for as a home health aide. At 1:30AM, plaintiff received a call that her son was shot outside their home. Plaintiff rushed home. Outside her home were many police officers. Her son was already at the hospital. Plaintiff was taken into the home and questioned for an hour. Plaintiff learned her son was alive but shot several times. Officers later left her home except for an officer who remained outside. Plaintiff exited her home to go the hospital and noticed her son's bag lying on the sidewalk. Plaintiff asked the officer if she could take the bag as it contained personal items. The officer told her to wait. 30 minutes later plaintiff again asked the officer if she could take the bag. The officer took plaintiffs name and date of birth and plaintiff left for Brookdale Hospital. At Brookdale, several officers were outside her son's room. Plaintiff later walked out of the trauma room and was approached by several officers. Outside the hospital, plaintiff was told she was under arrest. She was grabbed by several officers, handcuffed and put into a police car. The car drove away from the hospital and stopped a few blocks away, where plaintiff was removed from the car and searched. Officers emptied her pockets, and searched her wallet, with no contraband found. Plaintiff was taken to the precinct, searched again and chained to a bench. She was taken back to Brookdale to receive treatment for injuries. Plaintiff was released from the precinct with a Desk Appearance Ticket. The Kings County DA declined to prosecute and all charges were sealed.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.348100/gov.uscourts.nyed.348100.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6261411/gannaway-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Moore, David vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-01-08","disposition_date":"2013-08-06","payout_amount":12000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"12CV05480","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Solowitz, Michael H.","summary":"On August 13, 2012, Plaintiff was riding his bike home in Brooklyn when a Defendant Officer approached, ordered him off his bike and told him to put his hands up. Plaintiff complied and Defendant searched him. Plaintiff told the Defendant he was just riding home and then Defendant searched him a second time and handcuffed him despite no contraband being recovered and no probable cause or reasonable suspicion that Plaintiff had committed any crime. Plaintiff was brought to the Precinct and Defendant Officers levied false claims against him. Those charges were adjourned in contemplation of dismissal. On January 4, 2013, Plaintiff was walking in Brooklyn when plain clothes Officers in an unmarked car pulled up next to him and stopped. Defendant Officers exited and searched Plaintiff and again arrested him without reason. At the precinct Defendant Officers again levied false charged against Plaintiff.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.336030/gov.uscourts.nyed.336030.16.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919674-Moore-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919673-Moore-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/12957975/moore-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21066755-solowitz-923197-10-09-20","type":"brady-giglio"}],"id":"S6T3","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/S6T3"}