Brosnan was allowed to retire before facing any departmental charges, and was granted a disability pension of 75 percent of his salary, tax-free, based on his claim that the sound of the gunfire had damaged his hearing.
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Contradicting the criminal verdict, the police department's deputy commissioner for trials, Rae Koshetz, on Friday found Livoti guilty of departmental charges of using an illegal choke hold and guilty of charges that his tactics contributed to Baez's death.
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One of two police officer found innocent of beating a College of Saint Rose basketball in a police garage was cleared of departmental charges Wednesday, allowing him to return to the beat after some three years on paid leave.
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They included the board's widely disputed decision to abandon an attempt to prosecute a transit police officer on a departmental charge in the 1983 arrest and death of Michael Stewart, who was arrested for scrawling graffiti in a subway station.
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A San Francisco police officer facing departmental charges of excessive force confirmed he repeatedly kicked a burglary suspect who later died in custody _ but said he did so to get the man to drop a canister of pepper spray.
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The officer, Michael W . Meyer, 29, will most likely face departmental charges of reckless endangerment and wrongful assault of a person known to the department, and other, lesser charges, said police officials involved in the department's inquiry into the case.
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The departmental charges filed on Wednesday, which were signed by Capt . Kevin Gilmartin of the department's Internal Affairs Bureau, state that Volpe " did wrongfully insert a foreign object into the rectum of a prisoner, Abner Louima, causing injury ."
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Arena said he would seek reinstatement in the Police Department, although he said that he fears his ordeal is not yet over because he will face departmental charges and that he is worried some other charges could be brought against him in state court.
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Even though they do not face criminal charges, the two suspended firefighters, Tony Deluca, 34, and Christian Waugh, 30, face departmental charges for admitting the woman to the firehouse and having sex with her there, and their supervisors-- including a battalion chief-- could face discipline and transfer, Fire Department officials said.
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Thus, while civil lawsuits against the officers and the city are pending, Kerik's decision to drop departmental charges brings to an end all criminal and administrative proceedings in a racially divisive case that has provoked demonstrations and a citywide debate on aggressive police tactics and continues to reverberate in this year's nascent mayoral campaign.
