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 Kid	Sergeant	White male	White female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2002
Keith Chatterton	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Joseph Bell	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Joseph Bell	Lieutenant	White male	White female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
David Levine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2002
Damon Martin	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 70 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Lynda Chervoni	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2002
Joseph Albertini	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2002
Michael Gibbs	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Bruce Solomon	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2002
Waliur Rahman	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male	Exonerated	2002
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2003
Julio Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2003
John Quigley	Police Officer	White male	White male, 63 years old	Exonerated	2003
Joseph Hickey	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Christopher McCormack	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2003
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2003
Ralph Cilento	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2003
Richard Coccodrilli	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Jose Caban	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 68 years old	Exonerated	2003
Rafael Vega	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Christopher McCormack	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 57 years old	Exonerated	2003
Chanae Martin	Police Officer	Black female	White female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Kervelin Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Not available female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2003
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Jeffrey Schiff	Sergeant	Black male	White female, 65 years old	Exonerated	2003
Curtis Crystal	Sergeant	White male	White male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2003
Angelica Torrespintos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Other Race female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Brian Mcginn	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2003
Nicole Gondry	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2003
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 56 years old	Exonerated	2003
Christophe Pasquale	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2003
Paul Prendergast	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Felix Graciani	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Jeremiah Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Frank Palumbo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Alejandro Rivas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 62 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Joseph Redmond	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Jose Delrosario	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2003
Thomas Manning	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2003
Stephen Espinoza	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2003
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Mark Cozzi	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2003
Adam Seidenberg	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2003
Raymond Jansen	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2003
John Restaino	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Lance Levine	Police Officer	White male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2003
Steve Lafortune	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2003
Brian Depalo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Francis Clough	Sergeant	Black male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Reinaldo Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2003
Anthony Ronda	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Thomas Kid	Sergeant	White male	White male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Angelo Machicote	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2003
James Kelly	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 57 years old	Exonerated	2003
Raymond Tomins	Sergeant	White male	White male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2004
Brian Clements	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
Frank Vega	Captain	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2004
Lashonda Dyce	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2004
David Leonardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2004
Richard Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Ronald Robinson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2004
David Leonardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2004
Edward Barry	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Derin Devuono	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2004
Derin Devuono	Police Officer	White male	White female, 63 years old	Exonerated	2004
Lashonda Dyce	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2004
Avis Washington	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Willie Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Michele Herbst	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Khalid Ragab	Police Officer	White male	White male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2004
Brian Coffey	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Kelly Maldonado	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Harvin Hart	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2004
Kevin Breen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Tallarine	Detective	White male	Black female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2004
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 56 years old	Exonerated	2004
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Kelly Maldonado	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Sean Christian	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Ronald Luparello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2004
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2004
Jesus Carrillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2004
Dion Edwards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Anthony Barresi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Herve Francois	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 59 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Marco Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2004
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Rolando Carbonell	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Thomas Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2004
Edward Young	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Noelle Cunningham	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Andrew Tolson	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2004

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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.