A striking New York City police officer who was once suspended for interfering with a traffic stop for her suspected drug dealer boyfriend had her career ruined after her topless image was repeatedly shared among her fellow Finest friends, according to a lawsuit. He claims to have gone crazy and is now targeting the police station.
Alisa Bajraktarevic, 34, joined the department in 2012 and sent lewd snapshots to Lt. Marc Rivera, with whom she dated for several months that year, she said in her Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
Rivera allegedly shared the photo with other officers in a group text and it quickly went viral, but Bajraktarevic said union representatives urged her not to press charges.
One woman reportedly said, “You’re not the first or the last woman this has happened to or will happen to.”
The photo resurfaced in April after Vajraktarevic was accused of interfering with police who showed up while she was hanging out with her then-boyfriend, Kelvin Hernandez, 33, in the Bronx.
At the time, police surrounded her car and asked Vajraktarevic and Hernandez what happened.
Hernandez, who was recording the officers, was arrested despite Bajraktarevic denying that his girlfriend was selling drugs, according to his own ongoing lawsuit against the department. was charged with resisting.
As word of the investigation spread, topless photos also spread, she said, and were shared in NYPD group chats and text message chains, along with personal information such as her parents’ addresses.
“You do things with confidence. That doesn’t guarantee you’ll be treated like shit,” Bajraktarevic told the Post.
“It’s pretty repulsive. Did you decide to keep this on your phone for 12 years?” she said. “It spread like wildfire.”
Bajraktarevic said she was alerted to the resurfaced photo by a union representative who told her a retired officer had sent it to a group chat, and since then she has received messages almost daily from co-workers who saw and heard it. It is said that
“It’s bullying. I’m not the first and definitely won’t be the last, but when will enough be enough?” she said through tears. “Because someone is definitely going to hurt themselves because of it. It feels like everything has been swept under the rug.”
Bajraktarevic claimed in his lawsuit that Hernandez was not a drug dealer, but following an internal affairs investigation, Hernandez was suspended without pay for 30 days and ordered to stop associating with him. .
But the New York City Police Department failed to investigate the people who disseminated Bajraktarevic’s topless images without her consent, an action that is now against the law.
Attorney John Scola said the “unlawful invasion of privacy” highlights the NYPD’s “disregard for its treatment of female officers.”
Bajraktarevich, who is seeking unspecified damages from the city, Rivera and another supervisor who she says sexually harassed her in 2017, said she always wanted to be a police officer. He said he wants his colleagues to understand the impact of their actions.
“What no one talks about is how we bully each other. It’s disgusting,” she said.
The city’s Legal Affairs Bureau announced it would consider a lawsuit. The NYPD declined to comment on the lawsuit, but said it “does not tolerate discrimination or sexual harassment in any form and is committed to a respectful work environment for our diverse workforce.”
