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
Sergio Delamota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Colin Austin	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2012
Rafael Perdomo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Yuseff Hamm	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male	Unsubstantiated	2012
Pamela Benites	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Johnny Orellana	Captain	Hispanic male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2012
Darren Caranella	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2012
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Donald Alexandre	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Cesar Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2012
Mark Sinatra	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Alexander Wancel	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Dimambro	Police Officer	White male	White male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2012
Robert Simms	Detective	Black male	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Stephen Allocca	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Frank Cannone	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Ahmad Brannon	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Leon Batson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2013
Barbara Fischer	Lieutenant	White female	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Conn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Joseph Hickey	Detective	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Paray	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2013
Steve Crozier	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Louis Marinacci	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Matthew Levy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
William Morris	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Richard Neumann	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Anthony Anglisano	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2013
Vincent Dima	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Isa Abbassi	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Dmitry Brush	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Trifon Anagnostos	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Stephen Lalchan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Timothy Finn	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Oconnor	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Oghenevigh Okrokoto	Detective	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Haley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2013
Thomas Passolo	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Richard Young	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2013
Luis Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert King	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kenneth Gallart	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Albert Aronov	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Pedro Teco	Police Officer	White male	White female, 59 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Grieco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2013
Frank Laquidara	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Selwyn Fonrose	Detective	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andre Blake	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Elvis Cole	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Peinan	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2013
Odalis Perez	Detective	Hispanic female	Unknown female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Matthew Borden	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Sidorskiy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2013
Steven Moran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michelle Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2013
Matthew Giunta	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Thomas Mccue	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Daniel Staple	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 53 years old	Exonerated	2013
Jason Jones	Detective	Black male	Unknown male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Edwin Peguero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Joseph Spina	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2013
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Lahmar Sanders	Detective	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Joel Rosenthal	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2013
Robert Simms	Detective	Black male	Other Race male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Charlie Little	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Aaron Lohman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Frank Baldo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Francesco Allevato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Emilio Ortega	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2014
John Volkan	Sergeant	White male	Unknown female, 70 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Dervent Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Melanie Paganmerritt	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Omar Elsayed	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jovanna Woloski	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joseph Fernandez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Michael Kaczor	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kelvin White	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Saverio Zanchelli	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2014
Raymond Tomins	Sergeant	White male	Refused female, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014

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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.