{"active":true,"first_name":"John","last_name":"Dempsey","race":"White","gender":"Male","rank":"LT SA","command":{"command":"P C O","assignment_date":"2023-08-14","id":"422"},"taxid":"938348","command_history":[{"command":"1ST D.C","id":"380"},{"command":"YTH SD","id":"471"}],"middle_initial":"L","shield_no_history":[5374,2788,743],"appt_date":"2005-07-11","lawsuits":[{"name":"Folds, Cedric vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-10-10","disposition_date":"2015-06-09","payout_amount":7500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV04726","court":"U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY","officer_name":"Dempsey, John L.","summary":"On October 27, 2010 while leaving his residence in Jamaica, Queens, Plaintiff was arrested by NYPD Officer John Dempsey and others while leaving to pick up his girlfriend from the subway station. Dempsey and the other arresting officers advised Plaintiff that he was being arrested because he possessed an illegal firearm with ammunition and waived that firearm at his girlfriend the previous evening. Plaintiff was transported to the 103rd Precinct and subsequently to Central Bookings to be presented before the Criminal Court in Queens County. He was arraigned on charges of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, assault in the third degree, menacing in the second degree, endangering the welfare of a minor, and unlawful possession of pistol ammunition, all to which he pled \"not guilty\" and bail was set at $75,000. Plaintiff was transported to Rikers island, where he remained until August 9, 2011. Three weeks after Plaintiff was arrested, Plaintiff was informed that he was also being charged with criminal sexual acts in the first degree and sexual abuse in the second degree. Plaintiff spend ten months imprisoned on Rikers Island fighting these charges where he was subjected to awful conditions and assault from other inmates. Plaintiff's girlfriend was compelled by officer Dempsey to testify to the sexual abuse charges just i case the \"gun charges would not stick.\" All charges, having been fabricated, were eventually dropped.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.359520/gov.uscourts.nyed.359520.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/13139574/folds-v-city-of-new-york/"}],"payroll":{"salary":"157713","regular":"153215","overtime":"40121","other":"23087","total":"216424"},"id":"TS3Z","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/TS3Z"}