NYPD ‘UNCOVER’ UP
Cop slapped over beau sues ‘as Finest share her topless pic’
A NYPD officer who was once suspended for interfering in a traffic stop of her alleged drug dealer boyfriend is now taking aim at the department, claiming her career has been derailed after her topless image was repeatedly shared among fellow Finest, according to a lawsuit.
Alisa Bajraktarevic, 34, joined the department in 2012 and sent the salacious snap to Lt. Mark Rivera, whom she dated for a few months that year, she said in her Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
Rivera allegedly shared the photo in a group text with other cops, and it immediately spread, but Bajraktarevic said union delegates urged her not to file a complaint.
“You are not the first or last woman this has happened to or would happen to,” one told her, according to court documents.
The picture resurfaced last April, when Bajraktarevic was accused of interfering with cops who showed up while she was hanging out with her then-boyfriend, Kelvin Hernandez, 33, in The Bronx.
Bajraktarevic denied her beau was selling drugs, while Hernandez — who was recording the officers — was charged with resisting arrest, according to his own ongoing lawsuit against the department.
Bajraktarevic was suspended 30 days without pay and ordered to stop associating with him after an Internal Affairs probe.
Once word of the investigation spread, so too did the topless photo, which was shared in NYPD group chats and text message chains.
“You do things in confidence. It doesn’t warrant you being treated like a piece of s--t,” Bajraktarevic told The Post.
“It’s pretty repulsive. For 12 years they decided to keep this on their phone?” she said. “It spread like wildfire.”
Bajraktarevic said she was alerted to the resurfaced pic by a union delegate.
‘We bully each other’
“It’s bullying. I’m not the first and I’m definitely not the last but, when is it going to be enough?” she said, weeping. “Because someone is definitely going to harm themselves over it.”
The NYPD has failed to investigate those who spread Bajraktarevic’s topless image without her consent, an act which is now against the law, she claims.
The “illegal invasion of privacy” highlights the NYPD’s “disregard for the treatment of its women officers,” said her attorney, John Scola.
Bajraktarevic, who is seeking unspecified damages from the city, Rivera and another supervisor she claims sexually harassed her in 2022, said she always wanted to be a police officer — and wants her colleagues to understand the impact of their actions.
“The part that nobody talks about is how we bully each other — it’s disgusting,” she said.
The city Law Department said it would review the lawsuit.
The NYPD declined to comment on the litigation but said it “does not tolerate discrimination or sexual harassment in any form and is committed to respectful work environments for our diverse workforce.”