Emily Hirshowitz biography: 13 things about ex-cop from Ossining, New York

Emily Hirshowitz is an American woman from New York, United States. She is a former police officer in New Rochelle, Westchester County, New York and in Ossining, Westchester County, New York.

In 2012, Hirshowitz graduated from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. In 2015, she joined the New Rochelle Police Department.
2. On May 10, 2016, she joined the Ossining Police Department.
3. On September 17, 2016, she and two other Ossining Police Department officers competed in the Ty Louis Campbell Foundation‘s TYathlon sprint triathlon in Carmel, Putnam County, New York.
4. On July 16, 2017, she was one of the three Ossining Police Department officers who competed in the New York City Triathlon. On July 20, 2017, she was one of the four Ossining Police Department officers who participated in a culinary event at the Atria on The Hudson in Ossining.
5. In September 2018, she and the Ossining Police Department chief represented the department at IRONMAN 70.3 Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, which included a 1.2-mile swim, 56 miles of cycling and a 13.1-mile run.
6. In November 2018, The Rotary Club of Ossining named her the 2018 Employee of the Year.
7. In 2019, she completed IRONMAN Maryland in Cambridge, Maryland, USA.
8. In March 2022, she and a fellow Ossining Police Department officer spent a day reading to children all over Park School in Ossining.
9. In May 2022, she filed a report with the Westchester District Attorney’s Office in White Plains, Westchester County, claiming to have received threatening texts from several anonymous numbers. She accused her fellow Ossining Police Department officers of sending the messages.
10. In July 2022, she made complaints with screenshots of messages filled with expletives, calling her “useless”, “dumb” and a “reject”. On August 12, 2022, she said she wanted to drop the complaint but her superiors kept working hard to find out the culprits. During a meeting on August 23, 2022, investigators began to suspect her as being behind the messages.
11. In September 2022, as a school resource officer, she was assigned to the lower schools of the Ossining Union Free School District with students from Pre-K through fifth grade.
12. In October 2022, a search warrant was obtained for her cellphone and Apple iCloud accounts. The investigators discovered she controlled several of the numbers that sent the messages she first reported in May 2022.
13. She was 36 years old when she was arrested on June 28, 2023. She was suspended with pay and charged with four counts of third-degree falsely reporting an incident and three counts of first-degree filing a false instrument. Represented by Paul DerOhannesian, she will appear at the White Plains City Court on July 12, 2023.