Abuse of Authority: PROPERTY DAMAGED - The NYPD Files

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Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged

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

349

Complaints

358

Allegations

386

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
Julio Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Raghunan Ramroop	Police Officer	Asian male	Refused female, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Michael Raso	Lieutenant	White male	Other Race female, 47 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Dominick Raso	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2014
Jonathan Re	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Reilly	Detective	White male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jude Reimbeau	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jose Rendon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Kyle Riegel	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Edgar Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
Robert Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Paul Robinson	Detective	Black male	Asian male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Eric Robinson	Police Officer	White male	White male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Robert Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Waziri Rumala	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Raymond Russo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Derek Sambolin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Orlando Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Lahmar Sanders	Detective	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Javier Santos	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Frank Sarrica	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Erik Scantlebury	Detective	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	1996
Andrew Schlegel	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Brian Schulman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Bennett Shelley	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2013
Joseph Signorile	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Exonerated	2019
Carlos Silva	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Simms	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Mark Sinatra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Harjit Singh	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Johnpaul Slater	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Slavinsky	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Philip Smith	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
William Sommer	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 68 years old	Exonerated	2009
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Brett Strauss	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Roberto Suarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
George Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	1998
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mauricio Thomas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 51 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Juby Thomas	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Alex Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Alex Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Richard Turk	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1999
Josh Ulan	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1998
Jorge Ulloa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
John Ulmer	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Uske	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 79 years old	Exonerated	2017
Joshua Valdez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Greg Vallerugo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Rochael Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2018
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	White female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2010
Richard Vetrano	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2009
Lowez Walker	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
James Walsh	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Connor Walsh	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Walter Warkenthien	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2015
Steven Weiss	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Weldon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Whelan	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Derek Wilkins	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jeremiah Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joyce Williams	Lieutenant	Black female	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Marika Williams	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jeanne Williams	Sergeant	White female	Black female, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Matthew Wright	Detective	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Zamot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Saverio Zanchelli	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Yevgeniy Zaytsev	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Neil Zuber	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008

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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.