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
Jacob Aaronson	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2015
Donald Abrams	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 70 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Danny Aguilar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2007
Thomas Ailman	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
John Albertelli	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Francesco Allevato	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Frank Altieri	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Terrell Anderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Arena	Police Officer	White male	White male, 75 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Eliot Arias	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Eliot Arias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2013
Albert Aronov	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2001
Robert Backiel	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Angel Badillo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 65 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Felix Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
David Barker	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Trevor Baronette	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2014
Daniel Barreto	Police Officer	White male	Refused female	Unsubstantiated	2008
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Renninton Belen	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2011
Steven Berger	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	1988
Richard Bevers	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Pedro Bobe	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Bowman	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Edward Boyle	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female	Exonerated	2009
Kevin Breen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2010
Kevin Breen	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2014
Timothy Brown	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Damion Brown	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 48 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Sasha Brugal	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jalin Bulding	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	1994
Frank Burns	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Gregory Burns	Police Officer	White male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Burton	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Phawn Butler	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jose Camacho	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2012
Daniel Campbell	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Mathew Cangro	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Gary Capellan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Robert Carbone	Detective	White male	Black female, 63 years old	Exonerated	2019
Juan Carrero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
John Caruso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2005
John Cascone	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Castillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Daniel Castillo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Castro	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Cerbone	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1992
John Chavatte	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2002
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Ali Cheikhali	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ali Cheikhali	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2016
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Anthony Cimmino	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Salahudin Clark	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Leonard Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Clements	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Elvis Cole	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Eric Collazo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Orlando Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Comer	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Francis Conejo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Adam Conlin	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Adam Conlin	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Ryan Conroy	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Anthony Contessa	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Felix Cortez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2019
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Crain	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Steven Cruver	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ruben Cuesta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
David Cussen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joseph Dalbero	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Louis Dambrosio	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Louis Dambrosio	Detective	White male	Unknown not described, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Anthony Davila	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Brian Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Charles Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christos Deftereos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jose Dejesus	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2005
Matthew Delaney	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2011
Robert Delaney	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1997
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Jeremy Demarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brian Depalo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Frank Desiderato	Police Officer	White male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009

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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.