Lieutenant tasked with stopping NYPD sexual harassment fired for texting lewd videos and photos to subordinates

An NYPD lieutenant whose job it was to crack down on workplace harassment in the department was fired for sexually harassing a subordinate, Daily News has learned.

Police Commissioner Kichant Sewell ordered the dismissal of Lieutenant José Briceno from the department in late November after an NYPD Administrative Law Judge found him guilty of sexual harassment, display of offensive material and prohibited conduct, in a just-released decision.

Prior to the sexual harassment charges, Briseno was an integrity officer with the NYPD’s Office of Equity and Inclusion, where he was assigned to “develop and implement the Department’s sexual harassment programs and policies,” according to the findings. trained assistant deputy commissioner. Josh Kleiman Trials.

NYPD Lieutenant Jose Briceno

But on October 20, 2021, Briseno began sharing sexual texts with a subordinate officer.

An officer who testified at Briceno’s trial played along with the reports, but made it clear the next day that he did not want a physical relationship with him. Still, the lyrics continued, she said.

In one of the text messages, when a subordinate said she would wear a polo shirt next week, Briseno wrote: “I will make you take it off in front of me,” the judge’s report says.

“I’ll take off (your bra),” he continued to write. “You’ll like it if I do it with my mouth.”

Even though she said that he shouldn’t be “so messing around”, the harassment continued.

“Sit on my knees,” he wrote to her. “We can do it in the office.”

During these exchanges, Briceno sent her photos of his genitals and a video of him having sex with another woman, as discovered by members of the department’s attorney’s office. He is also accused of touching the officer’s thighs, back, shoulders and hair, and commenting on her weight, according to police sources.

At an agency hearing, Briseno said he did not consider “touching inappropriate” and said he was not guilty of misconduct because he and his subordinate “were engaged in a mutually consensual flirtatious relationship,” the report summarizes.

“However, at the trial (Briceno) admitted that, in retrospect, he could be wrong,” the report notes.

Briseno was the second NYPD Equal Employment Opportunity member to be charged with harassment that year.

A few months earlier, Deputy Inspector James Kobel, former head of Equal Employment Opportunity, a division of the Office of Equity and Inclusion, was fired after an investigation revealed he had posted hundreds of racist and sexist messages on an anonymous online resource. Bulletin board.

Briceno joined the NYPD in July 2004 and joined the Office of Justice and Inclusion in 2019.

Members of the Lt. Benevolent Association on Thursday declined to comment on Briceno’s dismissal.

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