Abuse of Authority: THREAT OF ARREST - The NYPD Files

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Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest

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

1,043

Complaints

1,266

Allegations

1,409

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
Thomas Boller	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 56 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jason Santana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Joseph Famiglietti	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Christophe Sanchez	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2015
Pawel Wala	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Frank Amill	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Mccaffrey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2015
Frank Laquidara	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2015
Andrew Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Bekim Kalicovic	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
William Morris	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Christophe Daly	Sergeant	White male	Unknown female, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Philip Vaccarino	Detective	White male	White male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Janson Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2015
Walter Warkenthien	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Pawel Wala	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Adriano Deleon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Shibu Madhu	Sergeant	Asian male	Refused female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Whelan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jessica Romance	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2015
Justin Delmonico	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 15 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Holder	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2015
Donald Kipp	Sergeant	White male	American Indian male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Justin Delmonico	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 15 years old	Exonerated	2015
Sean Higgins	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Sean Higgins	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Keith Knight	Detective	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Sean Phillips	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 68 years old	Exonerated	2015
Nathan Mole	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 68 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Pawel Dabrowski	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2015
Daniel Dallemand	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Patrick Cherry	Detective	White male	Asian male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Daniel Kern	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jose Deschamps	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2015
Charlie Harvell	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Adnan Radoncic	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Juby Thomas	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 65 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Tancredi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Hall	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Raheen Rivers	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Rashan Lacoste	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jasen Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2015
Tongzhong Zhang	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Charlie Harvell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Edward Boyle	Police Officer	White male	White male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Paul White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Yaris Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Gabriel Baaith	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jeffrey Schiff	Deputy Inspector	Black male	White male, 70 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Nicholas Corrado	Sergeant	White male	Other Race female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2015
Claymont Defreitas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Daniel Guida	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Artur Espenberg	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2015
Frank Bulzoni	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 54 years old	Exonerated	2015
Peter Borukhov	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Derrick Kreckmann	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Kerin Quinn	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Thomas Smith	Captain	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Julio Meyreles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Leon Batson	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Leon Batson	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Stephen Jones	Police Officer	White male	White female, 70 years old	Exonerated	2016
Edwin Soto	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 59 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ali Cheikhali	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2016
Brian Dobbins	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brendan Dono	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Vito Poliseno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2016
Darrell Lowe	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Bryn Stayfer	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Elliot Colon	Deputy Inspector	Hispanic male	White male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2016
Javier Santos	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michael Lunetta	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Anthony Longobardi	Captain	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2016
George Allen	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jacklyn Villanueva	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
David Oyague	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2016
Andre Gayle	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 81 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2016
Ananda Mirandamessner	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White male, 67 years old	Exonerated	2016
Umar Khitab	Police Officer	Asian male	Unknown female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andre Gayle	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 81 years old	Exonerated	2016
Peter Ahn	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Francis Clough	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2016
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jena Leocadio	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2016
Nicholas Albergo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2016
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Ustick	Police Officer	White male	White female, 58 years old	Exonerated	2016
Brian Green	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brandon Gembecki	Police Officer	White male	White male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Diaz	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	White male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2016
Stanley Macnear	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Ronald Remo	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2016
Albert Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Chris Aybar	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 38 years old	Exonerated	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.