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Disciplinary records show responding officers sometimes failed to perform standard sobriety tests on fellow officers.

In at least 17 cases, officers who crashed vehicles or showed signs of intoxication were not arrested.

Most officers involved returned to their jobs after short suspensions and internal disciplinary action.

Editor's note: Sammy Sussman pored over more than 10,000 police disciplinary files to report this article, which is part of a series by The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship .

An Orchard Park police officer found the man in the shoulder of a six-lane road, standing near his crumpled black BMW, arguing with his girlfriend.

It was 11 p.m. on a Saturday in 2021, in the suburbs of Buffalo. The BMW had slammed into a Jeep, smashing i

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