An ex-police officer who claims he recorded fake summonses to meet an allegedly illegal quota ought to be entitled to a hearing to explain the circumstances that led to his termination and loss of a pension, but he has no such right, a judge has held.
In a decision upholding Stephen Gerwer's ouster from the New York City Police Department, Supreme Court Justice Shlomo Hagler (See Profile) in Manhattan expressed concern that the veteran Staten Island officer never had, and apparently will never have, an opportunity to tell his side of the story due to a "self-executing statute" that requires dismissal for a violation of moral integrity.
