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
Javier Santos	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Robert Mcginn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2006
Danny Aguilar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2007
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2002
Robert Delaney	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1997
Daniel Oh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Robert Carbone	Detective	White male	Black female, 63 years old	Exonerated	2019
Michael Heinz	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Robert Obrien	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 56 years old	Exonerated	2020
Michael Edmonds	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Mark Lanigan	Sergeant	White male	White female	Exonerated	2001
Steven Weiss	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Edward Boyle	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female	Exonerated	2009
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Essig	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1987
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2014
Piero Lasaponara	Detective	White male	Black male, 61 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Caruso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jose Dejesus	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2005
Alex Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Edmonds	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Janson Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jose Camacho	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2012
George Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	1998
John Moynihan	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1999
Trevor Baronette	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2014
Willus Murray	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2002
Anthony Longobardi	Lieutenant	White male	White female, 72 years old	Exonerated	2014
Giovanni Giovanniello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2005
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kevon Husband	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 53 years old	Exonerated	2017
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	White female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christophe Lembo	Police Officer	White male	White female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2005
Derek Epstein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2010
Walter Warkenthien	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2015
Eliot Arias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2013
Renninton Belen	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2011
Erik Scantlebury	Detective	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	1996
Roberto Suarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Hassan Paris	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2019
Dominick Raso	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2014
Theodore Federoff	Captain	White male	White female, 71 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michael Driscoll	Detective	White male	White female, 60 years old	Exonerated	2014
Richard Reilly	Detective	White male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2005
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2018
Thomas Manning	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2017
Robert Morris	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
James Walsh	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
John Uske	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 79 years old	Exonerated	2017
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2009
Kevin Breen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2010
Edgar Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
Kevin Breen	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2014
Lawrence Fiorello	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2000
Aleksandr Kovalenko	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2017
Ali Cheikhali	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2016
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2011
Ali Cheikhali	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2016
Richard Vetrano	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Bennett Shelley	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2013
Javier Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2008
Joseph Signorile	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Exonerated	2019
Derek Wilkins	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christophe Crain	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Anthony Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 53 years old	Exonerated	2007
Brendan Dono	Police Officer	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2008
William Sommer	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 68 years old	Exonerated	2009
Thomas Napolitano	Detective	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2016
Jocelyn Peralta	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Other Race female, 53 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christopher McCormack	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1997
Michael Manzolillo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2003
Matthew Delaney	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2006
Lyndon Providence	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Francis Conejo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Brian Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Mizbah Noor	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Vicnia Liz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Unknown male	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
David Barker	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
James Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Thomas Ailman	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Mathew Cangro	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Todd Hansen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Mark Sinatra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Joseph Grogan	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	1998
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Daniel Miraglia	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	1996
Thomas Passolo	Captain	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
John Essig	Deputy Inspector	White male	Unknown female, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Michael Greaney	Detective	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Raghunan Ramroop	Police Officer	Asian male	Refused female, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Matthew Dias	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015

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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.