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Abuse of Authority: Forcible Removal To Hospital
This page contains all allegations assigned to this category by the CCRB. Multiple similar allegations can appear for the same officer because a complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.
Officers With Complaints
114
Complaints
98
Allegations
120
What the CCRB’s Conclusions Mean
Substantiated: The alleged conduct occurred and it violated the rules. (Here is a breakdown of the types of discipline the CCRB can recommend. The NYPD can choose to ignore those recommendations. It has discretion over what, if any, discipline is imposed.)Exonerated: The alleged conduct occurred but did not violate the NYPD’s rules, which often give officers significant discretion over use of force.
Unsubstantiated: The CCRB has fully investigated but could not affirmatively conclude both that the conduct occurred and that it broke the rules.
| Officer | Rank at Time of Complaint | Officer Details | Complainant Details | CCRB Conclusion | Year Received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Martinez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Jovanna Woloski | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Denis Samuylin | Lieutenant | White male | White female, 68 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Elena Stojanovski | Sergeant | Hispanic female | White male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
| Ralph Aquino | Sergeant | Asian male | White female, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Philip Hirsh | Sergeant | White male | White male, 61 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Darren King | Sergeant | Black male | Asian male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Raymond Abear | Detective | Asian male | Black female, 54 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Christophe Pierre | Police Officer | White male | White male, 62 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Kimberley Bove | Sergeant | White female | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Eric Droz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian female, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Ian Abramowitz | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 60 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Raymond Abear | Detective | Asian male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Fadi Albishara | Police Officer | White male | White male, 62 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Larry Meyers | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic female, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Howard Peralta | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Jeffry Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Ahmed Abdalla | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Ahmed Abdalla | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Robert Erbetta | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Justin Cristiano | Police Officer | White male | White male, 57 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Wilson Chan | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 68 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Gerard Scparta | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Tamer Sergany | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Edward Ahearne | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Kenneth Miller | Sergeant | White male | White female, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2019 |
| James Moore | Lieutenant | Black male | White female, 70 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Vicente Cardenas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Robert Alimena | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White female, 73 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Tyler Dowen | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Gregory Long | Lieutenant | White male | Other Race transwoman (mtf), 27 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Joseph Dipaolo | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 41 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Dominick Abate | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Joseph Manni | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Dagoberto Rodriguez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Lance Walter | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Angelica Casilimas | Sergeant | Hispanic female | Unknown male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Allan Taeza | Police Officer | Asian male | Black female, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| James Olson | Police Officer | White male | White male, 67 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Heriberto Hernandez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White female, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Troy Peacock | Sergeant | Black male | Asian male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Angel Dejesus | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Refused male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Andrea Cicillini | Police Officer | White male | White male, 68 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Robert Hyland | Sergeant | White male | White male, 72 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Robert Hyland | Sergeant | White male | White male, 68 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Omar Elsayed | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Justin Dengler | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Andrew Alvarado | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Steven Oconnor | Police Officer | White male | White female, 54 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Konstantin Panagiotopoulos | Police Officer | White male | White female, 54 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2019 |
| Willem Edouard | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown female, 37 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Armando Colon | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black female, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Lanier Glenn | Lieutenant | Black male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Kevin Maloney | Lieutenant | White male | White female, 62 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Nicole Fox | Police Officer | Hispanic female | White female, 65 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Suman Khanna | Police Officer | Asian female | White male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Louis Vannucci | Police Officer | White male | White male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Juan Burgos | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 52 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Timothy Burke | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Wenming Wu | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian female, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jonathan Galindosanchez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Brett Strauss | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Michael Straniere | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 47 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Brian Andruszkiewicz | Lieutenant | White male | Unknown female, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Raymond Ip | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 58 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Jose Genao | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 72 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Edwin Elvington | Police Officer | White male | White male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Diego Dejesus | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Pedro Almanzar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 53 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Robert Dominicci | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 68 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Thomas Gugliucci | Sergeant | White male | White female, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Ryan Mcguinness | Lieutenant | White male | White male, 63 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Hariton Marachilian | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic female, 76 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Sergio Delamota | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Graham Brathwaite | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 63 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Marino Lorenzo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Robert Durst | Sergeant | White male | Other Race female, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jose Ramos | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic transwoman (mtf), 36 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Paul Robinson | Detective | Black male | Black male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Mark Cozzi | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Aleksandr Kovalenko | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Johnny Mitchell | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Saher Abumalouh | Sergeant | White male | Asian male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Theodore Federoff | Deputy Inspector | White male | Other Race male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Nicholas Graziano | Sergeant | White male | Asian male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Peter Borisenko | Police Officer | White male | American Indian female, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Juan Carrero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Joseph Musarra | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Richard Cohen | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Richard Cohen | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 57 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| John Potkay | Deputy Inspector | White male | Hispanic female, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Matthew Dias | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Elias Vazquez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Asian male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Lyndon Tuckett | Lieutenant | Black male | Hispanic female, 23 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Ananda Mirandamessner | Police Officer | Hispanic female | White female, 65 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Adriano Deleon | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White male, 70 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Keyana Kendall | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 68 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Charles Senat | Sergeant | Black male | Refused not described, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
About This Data
For decades, disciplinary records of police officers in New York have been shielded from public view. After the state recently repealed the law that had kept the records secret, ProPublica requested and received a database from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates allegations of misconduct against NYPD officers. The database lists the name of each officer, the race of the complainant and the officer, a category describing the alleged misconduct, and whether the CCRB concluded the officers’ conduct violated NYPD rules. Police unions have opposed New York City’s plan to make public data about disciplinary investigations. This database names about 4,000 of the NYPD’s 36,000 active-duty officers. Every officer in the database has had at least one substantiated allegation. We excluded any allegations that CCRB investigators concluded did not occur and were deemed unfounded. We also removed a small number of officers (62) against whom the CCRB had substantiated allegations, but whose substantiated allegations had not gone fully through the NYPD’s administrative prosecution process. The CCRB was not able to reach conclusions in many cases, in part because the investigators must rely on the NYPD to hand over crucial evidence, such as footage from body-worn cameras. Often, the department is not forthcoming despite a legal duty to cooperate in CCRB investigations. The CCRB gets thousands of complaints per year but substantiates a tiny fraction of them. Allegations of criminal conduct by officers are typically investigated not by the CCRB but by state or federal prosecutors in conjunction with the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau or the FBI. The NYPD’s own findings in cases in this database are not included here.
Read more about what we’ve included in the database and why, and see our answers to questions we have received about this data. If you have information about any of these officers or cases, please fill out our form.
All of the records in this data are from closed cases. But if you see an error, contact the CCRB. If the agency updates its records and lets us know, we'll do so as well.
The data used in this database is downloadable from ProPublica’s Data Store.
Source
This data was obtained through a records request made to the CCRB. It includes fully investigated allegations only for officers who were members of the department as of late June 2020 and against whom the CCRB has substantiated at least one allegation.