Conclusion Meanings:
'Exonerated': or 'Within NYPD Guidelines' - the alleged conduct occurred but did not violate the NYPD's own rules, which often give officers significant discretion.
'Unsubstantiated': or 'Unable to Determine' - CCRB has fully investigated but could not affirmatively conclude both that the conduct occurred and that it broke the rules.
Further details on conclusion definitions.
Named in 2 known lawsuits, $600,001 total settlements.
Hadid, Bobby Farid vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 15CV00019,
U.S. District Court - Eastern District NY, January 7, 2015
Complaint
Description: Plaintiff was a sergeant in the NYPD and when he voiced concerns within the Intelligence Division about their surveillance of Muslims, high ranking officials of the NYPD's Intelligence Division initiated a series of retaliatory and punitive measures against him in effort to suppress and discredit any public disclosure he would make concerning the unlawful and secret profiling and interrogations. Plaintiff was charged with perjury, which as dismissed.
Schoolcraft v. The City Of New York et al
Case # 10CV06005,
U.S. District Court - Southern District NY
$600,001 Settlement
Second Amended Complaint
Description: Lawsuit against high ranking NYPD officials to silence, intimidate, threaten and retaliate against plaintiff for his documentation and disclosure of corruption with the NYPD. Specifically, that the NYPD had established an illegal quota policy for the issuance of summonses and arrests and that defendants were falsifying and instructing police officers to suborn perjury on police reports in order to distort COMPSTAT statistics. In order to prevent disclosure of these acts, defendants unlawfully entered plaintiff's home, had him forcibly removed in handcuffs, seized his personal effects, including evidence he had gathered documenting NYPD corruption and had him admitted to Jamaica Hospital Center against his will...