Ten New York state troopers and two supervisors were suspended for allegedly posing for photos with nude women and paying for a topless car wash at Woodstock '99, according to police officials.

"I was appalled at the conduct and action of a handful of troopers who brought discredit to the agency and themselves," State Police Superintendent James McMahon said in a prepared statement released Friday.

Police began internal investigations of those incidents in July and August following the Rome, N.Y., concert July 23–25, after a report appeared in the Syracuse, N.Y., newspaper the Post-Standard, and a photo was published in the New York Post.

None of the officers or supervisors was fired. A supervisor who allegedly had posed for photographs with two nude women near the end of the fire-fueled riots that ended the festival was punished with a reduction in rank and a "significant" suspension without pay, according to the police announcement.

Six troopers who also allegedly posed with nude women, apparently in the same incident, were punished with multiday suspensions and "formal censures."

"Show us some [breasts]," one of the state troopers is alleged to have said to the two women, according to the story printed in the Post-Standard in July that prompted that investigation.

Four troopers and a supervisor who allegedly paid to have their patrol cars cleaned at a topless car wash organized by a group of concert-goers, received the same punishment, according to the announcement. A photo of shirtless, female Woodstock '99 concert-goers washing a police car appeared in the New York Post in August, sparking that investigation.

The three-day festival, the 30th-anniversary edition of the original Woodstock festival, featured an eclectic lineup of acts, ranging from mellow singer/songwriter Jewel to festival closers the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Critics have pointed to a variety of possible reasons for the violence that marred the festival — including concert-goers' frustration with the prices of on-site food and bottled water, and the back-to-back performances on Woodstock's second night of hard-rock acts Limp Bizkit, Metallica and Rage Against the Machine, whose mosh pits were the sites of violence.

According to plan, state police stayed outside the Woodstock '99 grounds during the festival, until some 500 troops were called in to quell the riots.

In August, Galen Sherwin, president of the New York City chapter of the women's rights group NOW, praised police efforts to punish troopers who allegedly mistreated women at Woodstock '99. "They're setting a good example," she said.

Sherwin, who had criticized Woodstock '99 promoters' handling of alleged rapes and sexual assaults at the festival, could not be reached for further comment Wednesday (Oct. 13).

Two men were arrested for alleged sex crimes during Woodstock '99, and police have said they are investigating eight more alleged sexual assaults.

More than 40 people have been arrested in connection with the festival, including a woman who was arraigned Sept. 30 on charges that she attempted to break into an ATM during the riots. She and another concert-goer, also arraigned Sept. 30, also are accused of leaving the concert in a stolen rental car. They both entered pleas of not guilty.