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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Gove | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Steven Rupnick | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Maximo Gomez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Steven Rupnick | Police Officer | White male | Unknown not described | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Quran Mcphatter | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Anthony Contessa | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Sean Collins | Police Officer | White male | Other Race female, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available , 60 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Dany Fana | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Keith Silardi | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 39 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Keith Silardi | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 39 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Chris Palmeri | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Matthew Moschetto | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Kimm Cruse | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 75 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Kimm Cruse | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Lamont Gibson | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christophe Oconnor | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Carlos Pimentel | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| John Gergis | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jose Cordero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Edwin Soto | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Nanhao Chen | Lieutenant | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Luz Villacorta | Police Officer | Hispanic female | White male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Wilfredo Benitez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Malachi Mckenith | Police Officer | Black male | Not available male | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Anthony Hyde | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jhonny Milfort | Police Officer | Black male | Not available male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Daniel Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Deshawn Edmonds | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Daniel Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Diaz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Yael Magori | Lieutenant | White female | White female, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| John Londono | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Robert Mciver | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Gregory Green | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Angel Colon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Byran Pitts | Detective | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Christophe Ward | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic female, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Brett Strauss | Police Officer | White male | Other Race female, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Leonardo Nimo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Joseph Sotira | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Alan Chau | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 65 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Alan Chau | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Alan Hassel | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Timothy Terrillion | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Vladimir Alonzo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Malachi Mckenith | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 13 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Newton Hun | Police Officer | Asian male | White female, 58 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Pedro Vallecillo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Yael Magori | Lieutenant | White female | White female, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jonathan Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Nicholas Difinizio | Police Officer | White male | Asian female, 53 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Michael Laborde | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Ariel Urena | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jermaine Scott | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 12 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Boylan | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Hassan Gheith | Police Officer | White male | White female, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Juan Rodriguez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Sicelin Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Sicelin Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Dana Ladson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Eric Jordan | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 55 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Frederic Ortiz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Joel Riveragonzalez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Maribel Burgos | Sergeant | Hispanic female | Hispanic female, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Derek Wilkins | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Chantel Aloy | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Refused female, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Sherman Tyson | Police Officer | Black male | Refused female, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Brandon Gembecki | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Yael Magori | Lieutenant | White female | White female, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Robert Mciver | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Paul Robinson | Detective | Black male | Hispanic female, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Malachi Mckenith | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 13 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Edson Brutus | Police Officer | Black male | Asian female, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| William Froehlich | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Michael Algerio | Police Officer | White male | White female, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| William Froehlich | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Steven Ramunno | Detective | White male | Black female, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Lawrence Hotaling | Detective | White male | Hispanic female | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| John Chavatte | Sergeant | White male | Other Race female, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| John Chavatte | Sergeant | White male | Other Race female, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Jonathan Taveras | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Triston Trunk | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Frank Burns | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Frank Burns | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Joseph Lafata | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| William Diab | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| William Diab | Lieutenant | White male | Black female, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Bryan Pocalyko | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Bryan Pocalyko | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 71 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Willem Edouard | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown female, 37 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| David Oconnell | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Beatriz Ceballos | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Franklin Bohr | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Nairobi Grayson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
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.