Abuse of Authority: REFUSAL TO OBTAIN MEDICAL TREATMENT - The NYPD Files

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Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment

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

262

Complaints

234

Allegations

276

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
Christophe Ierardi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jason Levy	Detective	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jasen Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Adrian Ramon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Ohare	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Ronald Bolte	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Edward Caceres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Todd Hansen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Forrest Hirsch	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Ulitto	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Anthony Cimmino	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Ustick	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Aldo Yubini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Scott Lieneck	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ernest Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Black male	Other Race female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Joel Boyce	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Richard Guerrieri	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Umar Khitab	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Baumeister	Detective	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Eric Delman	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Adam Acosta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	American Indian female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Megan Fortunato	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Eric Bolger	Detective	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Brian Mccloskey	Detective	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Gustavo Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ivelisse Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic female	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Patrick Thompson	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ernest Morales	Captain	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2013
Wilfredo Benitez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Peinan	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Brian Christen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Keith Knight	Detective	Black male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Josh Kaveney	Detective	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jamaal Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Francisco Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kevin Stewart	Detective	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Francesco Allevato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Liam Ohara	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Terrance Lloyd	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Nelson Nin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Matthew Monkowski	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Yuseff Hamm	Detective	Black male	Unknown male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ludwig Narcisse	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	White male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Charles Senat	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Stephen Loschiavo	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe Cantelmi	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Vincent Ciardiello	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Seth Lynch	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Paul Marconi	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Kelly	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Roberson Tunis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Keating	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Alejandro Valderrama	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Keith Beddows	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Manuel Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 73 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Radoslaw Terepka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Angela Polancobrito	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jorge Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Frank Tornabene	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Stephen Salzano	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Francisco Diodonet	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Gazi Sharif	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 65 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Kevan Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 65 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Delvis Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 64 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Raymond Ip	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Luis Machado	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Matthew Wright	Detective	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Zanca	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Juan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Nelson Nin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 60 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Kevin Kenny	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Alexis Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Anthony Peters	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Michael Lopuzzo	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ritchie Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Christian Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Sherrod Stuart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Danese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brian Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 60 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Jeremy Banfield	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Clifton Clarke	Detective	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Matthew Escudero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jessenia Tabb	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black male, 64 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Maurice Grant	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Unknown female, 48 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Carl Scogmanillo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Reynaldo Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016

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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.