30 ‘unlawfully’ hired NYPD cops have troubling history of arrests, drug use: court docs

A crew of recently hired cops the city claims were wrongly hired have histories of arrests, drug use, prostitution, and a huge number of driving violations, according to a court filing.

Many of the cops were initially canned because background checks turned up a history of poor decision making, or, in some cases, multiple arrests — including one with three arrests, according to the new filing, including extensive quotes from their disqualification notices.

But the 30 unqualified cops were allowed to unlawfully join the force, the city said, because of the “unauthorized unilateral actions” of a former commanding officer tasked with screening candidates — despite lacking the authority to do so.

“His actions, therefore, were a nullity,” the city claimed, and that the 30 cops rolled the dice on their own “by not questioning or otherwise determining how they could miraculously become appointed as police officers,” despite already receiving notice that they were disqualified.

One rookie cop who made it into the academy at age 24 lacked any prior work history, but had an “extensive history of poor decision-making and recklessness,” the filing claimed.

That history included multiple driving convictions for driving 50 miles per hour over the speed limit, an arrest for a suspended license — with eight suspensions in total — and once struck a pedestrian with his car.

Another officer “reported using LSD and marijuana to cope with stress,” the filing said, while one cop said she “openly discussed arguments and conflicts with other people in a boastful manner.”

“What you do to me I’m going to do to you twice and I hope you feel worse than the way you made me feel,” she said, according to her quoted psychological disqualification summary.

In 2017, another of the accidental officers admitted to paying an erotic dancer for sexual intercourse, and paid a female masseuse to masturbate him in 2018.

One “freely admitted” to a number of arrests for marijuana, suspended licenses and involvement with eight car crashes.

That officer “exploited his is father’s status as an NYPD detective in order to circumvent
personal responsibility,” according to the included excerpt from the disqualification notice.