Case Name: In the Matter of Christopher Costa, Petitioner, v. Police Department of the City of New York, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2000-11-16
Citations: 277 A.D.2d 81
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of Christopher Costa, Petitioner, v Police Department of the City of New York, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 277
Pages: 81–82

Head Matter:
In the Matter of Christopher Costa, Petitioner, v Police Department of the City of New York, Respondent.
[715 NYS2d 65]

Opinion:
—Determination of respondent Police Commissioner dated June 24, 1999, which dismissed 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 [Eileen Bransten, J.]), entered on or about February 29? 2000), dismissed, without costs.
The penalty of dismissal, based upon, among other things, petitioner's operating an unregistered, uninspected and uninsured car with a suspended driver's license, and stealing registration and inspection stickers from vouchered and abandoned cars to replace his own expired stickers, does not shock our sense of fairness (cf., Matter of Alfieri v Murphy, 38 NY2d 976). Concur — Sullivan, P. J., Rosenberger, Tom, Wallach and Andrias, JJ.