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
Steven Muskovic	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Steven Muskovic	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Jose Ramos	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic transwoman (mtf), 36 years old	Exonerated	2018
Gerard Scparta	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Tamer Sergany	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Brendan Dono	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Lawrice Crawford	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
Andre Teterycz	Sergeant	White male	Other Race female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2018
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Andre Teterycz	Sergeant	White male	White female, 76 years old	Exonerated	2018
Aleksandr Pasynkov	Sergeant	White male	Not available male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2018
Ioannis Rizos	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2018
Matthew Monkowski	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2018
Christophe Schiro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2018
Frank Recca	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Scott Hampton	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 75 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Scott Hampton	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2018
Joseph Cordones	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2018
Odalis Perez	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Osvaldo Nunez	Captain	Hispanic male	White male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2018
Pedro Almanzar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2018
Yevgeniy Zaytsev	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2018
Angel Rolon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jorge Monge	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
James Biondo	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jeffrey Brown	Police Officer	Black male	White female	Exonerated	2018
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
Diego Dejesus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Louis Sorrentino	Police Officer	White male	White male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Yezenia Wagner	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Asian male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2018
Timothy Lerner	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Frank Giunta	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Michael Scally	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Jason Guzman	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Miguel Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jeffrey Brown	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
Michael Sidorskiy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Michael Sidorskiy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2018
Michael Sidorskiy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Christophe Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2018
Christophe Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Asian female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2018
Christophe Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2018
Christophe Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Asian female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2018
Fabio Nunez	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2018
Saher Abumalouh	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Fermin Bueno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Tyler Howe	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2018
Kevin Mccarthy	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
James Biondo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Kevin Mccarthy	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Steven Schwartz	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2018
Andrew Buck	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Andrew Buck	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2018
Justin Ellis	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2018
Emile Pratt	Sergeant	White male	Black female	Exonerated	2018
Thomas Bodai	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Benjamin Gottlieb	Lieutenant	White male	Other Race male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2018
Artur Espenberg	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Artur Espenberg	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Artur Espenberg	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Artur Espenberg	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Christophe Lembo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Anthony Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Anthony Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Eric Dym	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 14 years old	Exonerated	2018
Roodly Demorcy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2018
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Thomas Macca	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 78 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Thomas Macca	Police Officer	White male	White female, 74 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Kai Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Bruce Solomon	Detective	Black male	Refused male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2018
Gesner Charles	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Yefersson Salasmartinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
David Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
David Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	White female	Exonerated	2018
Lior Chernyhovsky	Police Officer	White male	White male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Todd Jacoby	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Anthony Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2018
Joseph Schwaner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Joseph Schwaner	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Joseph Schwaner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Troy Luis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2018
Andre Morris	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Andre Morris	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2018
Irene Bonicadelgado	Detective	Hispanic female	White male, 66 years old	Exonerated	2018
Anthony Basora	Police Officer	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2018
Franklin Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
Starlin Dominguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 68 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Starlin Dominguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Felix Garcia	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 71 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Ahmad Shaheed	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Daniel Silverio	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Daniel Silverio	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Anthony Longobardi	Captain	White male	White female, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Joseph Villarreal	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Matthew Finn	Police Officer	White male	White male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Brian Alexander	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Larry Meyers	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2018

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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.