James Kobel, the former commanding officer of the Police Department's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity who recently filed for retirement hoping to avoid an internal trial for racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic posts he allegedly made on the Law Enforcement Rant website, poses a new kind of dilemma for the NYPD, a former Deputy Commissioner for Trials said Jan. 19.
Mr. Kobel during the first week of the year put in for a pension that figures to exceed $100,000 a year based on his leaving as a Deputy Inspector with nearly 29 years in the NYPD. The department has yet to officially say whether it will schedule a trial, and unless it was completed by the first week in February, even a guilty verdict would not affect his pension.
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