The case of an alleged police whistleblower who says he was hospitalized as mentally dangerous as revenge for his claims will go to trial after five years of hard-fought litigation.

A series of rulings by Southern District Judge Robert Sweet have allowed a trial to take place in the case of Police Officer Adrian Schoolcraft, who claims fellow officers removed him from his Queens apartment in October 2009 and had him committed as an “emotionally disturbed person” to Jamaica Hospital both as payback and to undermine his accusations that police in the 81st Precinct in Brooklyn were underreporting crimes and supervisors were setting quotas for arrests and summonses.

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