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
Frank Altieri	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
John Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Roberson Tunis	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2010
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christos Deftereos	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Piero Lasaponara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2010
Pamela Benites	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Trifon Anagnostos	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2011
Konstantin Genin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Aleksandr Kovalenko	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Longo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mack Lipinski	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Darryl Chen	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Devin Long	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Martin Gimenez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Christian Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Stephen Espinoza	Captain	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2011
Frank Muirhead	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Tompkins	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Vincent Ciardiello	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
William Taylor	Captain	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Moroni	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Dominick Raso	Police Officer	White male	White female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jason Greenberg	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Dmaine Freeland	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 29 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2011
Brian Donoghue	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Paul Prendergast	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Stephen Polesovsky	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Furda	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Kevin Murphy	Detective	White male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Anthony Ronda	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Leonard Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Rodney Harrison	Deputy Inspector	Black male	Black female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Drummy	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Pablo Penaherrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Jose Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
David Shimshi	Sergeant	White male	White female, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Stacey Robinson	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Oliver Castillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Michael Kelly	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Lampert	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Arsenio Camilo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kaz Daughtry	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Slavin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2011
Steven Lopez	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Barbella	Police Officer	White male	White male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Albert Aronov	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2011
Victor Rosario	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ludwig Narcisse	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2011
Daniel Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Refused female, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Yuseff Hamm	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Simms	Detective	Black male	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Felix Gross	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Tancredi	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jemal Gungor	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Florencio Arquer	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Chris Palmeri	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Frank Recca	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2012
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Avidan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2012
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mark Sinatra	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Darren Caranella	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2012
Starlette Gillespie	Police Officer	Black female	White female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Troy Luis	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2012
Michael Dimambro	Police Officer	White male	White male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2012
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Mukhlesur Rahman	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Sean Downes	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Luis Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Bryan Polster	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Thomas Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Cesar Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Matthew Fried	Detective	White male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Refused male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Donald Alexandre	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Alexander Wancel	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Sergio Delamota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Momen Attia	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Milton Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Orlando Quinones	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rafael Perdomo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Michael Calle	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Anthony Donato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 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.