Vacchio v. Ward

—Determination of respondent Police Department of the City of New York, dated March 16, 1988, dismissing petitioner from the police force, is unanimously confirmed, the petition denied, and this proceeding, brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County, Norman Ryp, J., entered on or about Apr. 3, 1989), is dismissed, without costs and disbursements.

On January 3, 1985, petitioner ran out of the 75th Precinct house, with his weapon drawn, in response to a complaint from an individual previously unknown to him, that he had just been…