Case Name: In the Matter of Pashk Kalaba, Petitioner, v. Howard Safir, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-01-13
Citations: 268 A.D.2d 281
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Pashk Kalaba, Petitioner, v Howard Safir, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 268
Pages: 281–281

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Pashk Kalaba, Petitioner, v Howard Safir, as Police Commissioner of the City of New York, Respondent.
[701 NYS2d 383]

Opinion:
—Determination of respondent Police Commissioner, dated April 8, 1998, dismissing petitioner from his position as a police officer, unanimously confirmed, the petition denied and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [Robert Lippman, J.], entered on or about December 17, 1998) dismissed, without costs.
Respondent's findings that petitioner, while off duty, menaced a bus driver with a gun, and approximately a month later was involved in a verbal and physical altercation with traffic enforcement agents who were ticketing a car, during which petitioner injured the agents, were necessarily based on witness credibility, and are not subject to judicial review (see, Matter of Pesante v Abate, 211 AD2d 504). The penalty does not shock our sense of fairness. Concur—Rosenberger, J. P., Mazzarelli, Wallach and Saxe, JJ.