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
Robert Castillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Juan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mark Cozzi	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Brendan Grace	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Rafael Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Eric Bernard	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
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
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Alexis Dejesus	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jorge Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Robert Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Craig Basler	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Mahoney	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joseph Hayes	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Frederick Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Satinderpa Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Frank Tornabene	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Smith	Police Officer	White male	White female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
John Gergis	Police Officer	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Max Rolffot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Wilfredo Benitez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Scott Nuzzi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Uriel Lames	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Kenny Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Reynaldo Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Luis Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 50 years old	Exonerated	2018
Luis Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 50 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Derrick Mcintosh	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Stephen Salzano	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Radoslaw Terepka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jorge Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2005
Sean Collins	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jean Alejandro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Ludwig Narcisse	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
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
Michael York	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Michael York	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Michael Loeffel	Police Officer	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Paul Brauer	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Nercy Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Kenneth Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Mccrossen	Police Officer	White male	Refused female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Anna Serrano	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Armando Cardenio	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Philippe Vukosa	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Derek Sambolin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kelvin White	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Charles Galletta	Police Officer	White male	White male, 70 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Daniel Keating	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Monica Delvalle	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Charles Brown	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Francesco Allevato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Leslie Anderson	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Alexis Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
John Potkay	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Darren King	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joel Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Erik Lubrano	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Ritchie Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Joseph Deck	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Richard Guerrieri	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Patrick Quigley	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christian Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Je Chai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
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
Gary Capellan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Sherrod Stuart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Vincent Tulipano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Ernest Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Samuel Maria	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Michael Nocerino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Todd Hansen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Umar Khitab	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Darryl Chen	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Elijah Austin	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Patrick Burnett	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Patrick Burnett	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Richard Danese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Angela Polancobrito	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Loeffel	Police Officer	White male	White female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Charles Buglione	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Gerard Collins	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Elizabeth Oneill	Police Officer	White female	White male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Megan Fortunato	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013

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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.