O'Keefe v. Safir

—Determination of respondent Commissioner, dated June 18, 1998, which, after a hearing, dismissed petitioner from the New York City Police Department, 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 [Leland DeGrasse, J.], entered June 11, 1999) dismissed, without costs.

There was substantial evidence (see, Matter of Pell v Board of Educ., 34 NY2d 222, 230-231) to support the specifications charging petitioner with associating with a person reasonably believed to be a…