Sometimes disciplinary meetings came weeks — even months — after an incident.
Trooper Steven L. Lisowski was caught on security cameras driving himself “and a female companion, in a marked State Police van,” under the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge in 2017, according to a disciplinary letter. After removing a bag of empty beer bottles and a cooler from the vehicle, he drove to the station. The incident was not criminally investigated.
Weeks later, during his disciplinary interview, he estimated that he had drank “four to five beers” that afternoon. “I do not feel I was impaired at all,” he said in the interview, per a transcript. Lisowski, 48, was suspended for 10 days, and remains with the agency. He did not respond to requests for comment.
When I was younger I would play golf at my local country club. I wouldn’t have been able to afford a membership but a friend of mine worked the bar/sign in sheet for golf. So when I came in he would pretend I was a member and hand me cart keys to go play. To make amends, I would come in after golfing and have a couple drinks so I could tip my friend. A couple times a week, a state trooper everyone knew would be in there pounding 7 and 7s. He’d had four or five and then take “one for the road”. Always had his cruiser with him. Also New York State.