May 14, 2026, 3:01 a.m. ET In November of last year, Ryan Zarnowski’s public career as a peace officer appeared to have ended. Internal documents show mistakes and discipline marked his only year as a jail deputy at the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office: He failed to complete trainings; superiors said he had “little to no regard for what is happening around [his] unit” and he gave special treatment to an incarcerated woman who leveled against him an unsubstantiated accusation that he raped her.