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
Frank Sarrica	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Backiel	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Travis Duke	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Felix Cortez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jennifer Lavelle	Detective	White female	Black female, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Lampert	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Matthew Delaney	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2011
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2011
Renninton Belen	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2011
Stephen Jones	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
John Zamot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Greg Vallerugo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Oconnor	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Gulotta	Captain	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Richard Vetrano	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Terrell Anderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	White female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2010
Barbara Fischer	Sergeant	White female	Black female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Derek Epstein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2010
Daniel Campbell	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Waziri Rumala	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Derrick Milligan	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Alex Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Erik Nelson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Kevin Breen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jude Reimbeau	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Gregory Burns	Police Officer	White male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Raghunan Ramroop	Police Officer	Asian male	Refused female, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Steven Gabaris	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Brian Clements	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
David Cussen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Matthew Fried	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Edward Boyle	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female	Exonerated	2009
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2009
John Cascone	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mack Lipinski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Luis Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Adam Katrincic	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Perry	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Larry Meyers	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mathew Cangro	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
William Sommer	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 68 years old	Exonerated	2009
Frank Desiderato	Police Officer	White male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Fabio Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Barreto	Police Officer	White male	Refused female	Unsubstantiated	2008
Rebecca Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Louis Dambrosio	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Neil Zuber	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Salahudin Clark	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic female	Unsubstantiated	2008
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Javier Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2008
Gerardo Perrone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Brendan Dono	Police Officer	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2008
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Francisco Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Orlando Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Michael Edmonds	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Michael Edmonds	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Miguel Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 80 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Alonzo Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Thomas Fusco	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Ulmer	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2008
Robert Simms	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joseph King	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Gustavo Medina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Humberto Mantuano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jeremy Demarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Brian Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
James Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Christos Deftereos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Eric Collazo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Larkin	Police Officer	White male	White male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	White female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Crain	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Roberto Suarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Danny Aguilar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jeremiah Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Anthony Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 53 years old	Exonerated	2007
John Hopkins	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Lipton	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joyce Williams	Lieutenant	Black female	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Vicnia Liz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Unknown male	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Robert Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2006

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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.