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
Ernest Morales	Captain	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2013
Clifton Clarke	Detective	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Scott Lieneck	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Keith Knight	Detective	Black male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Richard Zacarese	Detective	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Granshaw	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gregory Kennedy	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Frank Sarrica	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Dennis Friendly	Detective	Black male	Black female, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Gaspar Sciacca	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Matthew Wright	Detective	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Gennaro Russo	Detective	White male	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
John Baumeister	Detective	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Frankie Hernandez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
John Mccrossen	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Nicholas Digaudio	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Roy Abounaoum	Detective	White male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jason Levy	Detective	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Yuseff Hamm	Detective	Black male	Unknown male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Mendez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Brendan Obrien	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Unknown female, 48 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Ferdi Memedoski	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Irene Bonicadelgado	Detective	Hispanic female	Asian female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Waliur Rahman	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Gustavo Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Cornelius Oshea	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Brian Fleming	Detective	White male	Other Race male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Brian Mccloskey	Detective	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Waliur Rahman	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ivelisse Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic female	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Eric Bolger	Detective	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kevin Stewart	Detective	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Taiwo Adeleke	Detective	Black female	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jose Peinan	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Eric Healy	Detective	Black male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Josh Kaveney	Detective	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Campbell	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Timothy Harrington	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Luis Machado	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Shibu Madhu	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Montgomery Summa	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christophe Lagrasta	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Eric Delman	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Cantelmi	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Timothy Brovakos	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Kevin Kenny	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Seth Lynch	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Roman Israilov	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Enrique Santos	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Ronald Bolte	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Max Rolffot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Craig Basler	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
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
John Gergis	Police Officer	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
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
Kevan Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 65 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Gazi Sharif	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 65 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Thomas Smith	Police Officer	White male	White female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Stephen Espinoza	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Adrian Ramon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Francisco Diodonet	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Rafael Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Castronova	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Ludwig Narcisse	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Todd Craven	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
John Roberts	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Frank Tornabene	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Edward Caceres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Trapasso	Police Officer	White male	White male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Steven Lawrence	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Adam Acosta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	American Indian female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jorge Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Jorge Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2005
Thomas Ulitto	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Vincent Ciardiello	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Radoslaw Terepka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Depalo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 76 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
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
Sean Collins	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Francisco Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Satinderpa Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Frederick Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jean Alejandro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Mark Kistoo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Matthew Mccoy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jasen Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012

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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.