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
Je Chai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Stephen Lalchan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ronald Remo	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2016
Allan Taeza	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Not available , 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Thomas Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Christophe Furda	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Waliur Rahman	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2002
Peter Ahn	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Nanhao Chen	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Juby Thomas	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 65 years old	Exonerated	2015
Dencil Parmar	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Timothy Finn	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2008
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Waliur Rahman	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male	Exonerated	2002
Herman Lai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2014
Sajjad Kiani	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Newton Hun	Police Officer	Asian male	White female, 58 years old	Exonerated	2017
Amit Dua	Sergeant	Asian male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Asghar Mahmood	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Stephen Chan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2001
Alan Chau	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 60 years old	Exonerated	2008
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Edwin Lau	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2015
Nanhao Chen	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Shibu Madhu	Sergeant	Asian male	Refused female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Desmond Mohan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Minh Tran	Sergeant	Asian male	Unknown female	Unsubstantiated	2016
Timothy Finn	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Nanhao Chen	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nanhao Chen	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Anil Jacob	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
George Huang	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Daniel Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Refused female, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Mukhlesur Rahman	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ronit Vyas	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Umar Khitab	Police Officer	Asian male	Unknown female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Herawattie Jeeuth	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2000
Rhea Tiwary	Police Officer	Asian female	Asian female, 67 years old	Exonerated	2019
Keith Cheng	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Newton Hun	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Asghar Mahmood	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Taejoong Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Rhea Tiwary	Police Officer	Asian female	Asian male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2019
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kai Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ramu Hiller	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
David Paray	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Darrell Dass	Police Officer	Asian male	White female, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Tongzhong Zhang	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Darrell Dass	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jaysen Basnight	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2007
Billy Dill	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2019
Larry Dunn	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Rainard Wroten	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 59 years old	Exonerated	2019
Jhonny Milfort	Police Officer	Black male	Not available male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2017
Andre Gayle	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 81 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2016
Roodly Demorcy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2018
Raheen Rivers	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Bobby Mohip	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Troy Peacock	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2009
Andre Gayle	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 81 years old	Exonerated	2016
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jeffrey Schiff	Sergeant	Black male	White female, 65 years old	Exonerated	2003
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Dana Harge	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Kimberly Washington	Police Officer	Black female	Refused male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ebony Glover	Police Officer	Black female	White female, 50 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jermaine Scott	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Alwyn Phillips	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2017
Alwyn Phillips	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2019
Dervent Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Dana Ladson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Aubrey Henry	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	1995
Jeffrey Schiff	Deputy Inspector	Black male	White male, 70 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Sheldon Malcolm	Detective	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2019
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Titus Parham	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2006
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2001
Gesner Charles	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Daniel Dallemand	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Nathan Mole	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 68 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Sherman Tyson	Police Officer	Black male	Refused female, 57 years old	Exonerated	2017
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Sean Christian	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Sean Christian	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Steven Owens	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2006
Alwyn Phillips	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Leon Batson	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016

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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.