COP UNIT SHAKEUP

6 transferred after being hit with bigot complaints

Detectives and their commander in a squad at the 66th Precinct in Brooklyn have been transferred after the Daily News reported exclusively on federal complaints by two of their colleagues who said they were victims of persistent racist bullying in a “frat house” culture where supervisors looked the other way.

As of Wednesday, the NYPD was transferring four detectives and two sergeants out of the detective unit at the 66th Precinct stationhouse, according to a police document reviewed by The News.

The News reported in April and this week on civil rights complaints filed by Detectives Michael Moy, a Chinese-American, and Ileen Estevez, a black Latina, who accused fellow detectives of racist behavior that carried over into the way crime victims in the community were treated.

Detectives James Dawson and Anthony Carreira, both named in filings that Moy and Estevez made with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were transferred to other Brooklyn precincts, as was Detective Rohail Khalid, who was named in Moy’s complaint.

Also transferred were Sgt. Gary Caporale, the commanding officer of the unit, Detective Yousef Aisaa, and Sgt. Titus Parham, the officer under Caporale.

The News reported Tuesday that Estevez accused Carreira of playing YouTube clips of a woman speaking with a “ghetto” accent or the “Fat Albert” theme song when she entered the squad’s office. “In short, the racist/sexists at the 66th wanted me out, they wanted me to not be promoted, they made it difficult for me to do my job,” Estevez wrote in her filing.

Moy claimed that Dawson referred to Jews as “filthy Jews,” “dirty Jews,” and “beards,” and that Dawson (right) and Carreira called Muslim detectives “Taliban” and frequently played a YouTube video of Taliban chanting.

The 66th Precinct covers parts of Borough Park and Sunset Park and serves a heavily Chinese, Jewish and Hispanic population.

Moy wrote that in order to bully him, Carreira (right) “hundreds of times” played a YouTube clip of a comedian doing a Chinese accent.

Caporale was accused of witnessing Carreira’s playing YouTube clips to racially bully minorities at the precinct, but doing nothing to stop it.

Moy said two fellow detectives “s—-canned” cases brought by minority crime victims. “They don’t get the same quality of investigation as other people,” said Moy. “Especially the Chinese because they don’t speak English, and (detectives) can close the case easily.”

Estevez is still a detective in the 66th Precinct, but Moy is on modified duty without his badge and gun since having a physical altercation with Dawson.

Dawson and Carreira are on a unit called “Team 2.” According to Moy, four detectives were assigned to Team 2, while two other teams each had two or three detectives.

Estevez claims Dawson and others from “Team 2” frequently cut corners in their work while she went by the book.