‘A day we’ve all been working for’: Disciplinary histories of 83,000 NYPD cops made public online after court battle

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The other shoe fell on the NYPD Thursday when the watchdog Civilian Complaint Review Board posted online disciplinary records for more than 83,000 active and retired cops, detailing decades worth of alleged misconduct.

Nearly nine months after state legislators repealed a shield law that protected police from prying eyes, records that were once shrouded in secrecy became available with just a click of the mouse.

Not even Police Commissioner Dermot Shea was spared from the disciplinary data dump. Records show the city’s top cop received eight complaints stemming from his work as part of the department’s Detective Bureau, including one that was substantiated — a 2003 vehicle stop with a frisk.

Shea’s records include an unsubstantiated force complaint from 2011, and three cases where he was exonerated.

The release of disciplinary records was several years in the making, with police unions fighting to prevent information covered by Section 50-a, the law that since 1976 kept police disciplinary records from public view unless a judge said otherwise.