How have the courts dealt with sexual harassment claims against the Metropolitan Police Department?

Under the circumstances of this case, a jury could not reasonably find the existence of a severe, pervasive atmosphere of sex-based hostility at the Met. These pictures and the one instance of sexual banter alleged by the plaintiff, while they were arguably inappropriate in a work setting, do not rise to the level of actionable conduct. See Faragher v. City of Boca Raton, 118 S.Ct. 2275, 2283-84 (1998)(citing Oncale, 118 S.Ct. at 1002 for the proposition that the standards under Title VII for judging the existence of a hostile work environment are sufficiently stringent not to enable the statute to become a "'general civility code'").

III. Conclusion

The district court correctly granted summary judgment for the defendants on the age discrimination claim as well as the

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