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
Scott Henderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Brian Nyhus	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2002
Curtis Crystal	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Christophe Stilianesis	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2002
Frank Palumbo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Victor Borg	Police Officer	White male	White female, 65 years old	Exonerated	2002
Michael Gibbs	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Michael Gibbs	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Yuseff Hamm	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2002
Bruce Solomon	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2002
Curtis Crystal	Sergeant	White male	White male, 62 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Bruce Solomon	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2002
Waliur Rahman	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male	Exonerated	2002
Alexander Grandstaff	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2002
Elias Nikas	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2002
Joseph Bell	Lieutenant	White male	White female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Andrew Bershad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Damon Martin	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 70 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Joseph Bell	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Vincent Maher	Police Officer	White male	White male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2002
Rommelle Chin	Sergeant	Black female	White female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2002
David Levine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2002
Ramu Hiller	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Lynda Chervoni	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2002
Keith Chatterton	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Peter Efthimiou	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2002
Oswaldo Carrion	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2002
Salvatore Molino	Detective	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2002
Thomas Kid	Sergeant	White male	White female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2002
Edward Young	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Marianela Tejada	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Daniel Miraglia	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2001
Jeannette Brenes	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Craig Mastromatteo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2001
Jeannette Brenes	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2001
Alexander Grandstaff	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Charles Barberi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Michael Gaine	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
James Eisert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2001
Joey Quigley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Gerald Breiner	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2001
Franklin Bohr	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2001
Carl Roadarmel	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2001
Richard Warner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Fernando Espindola	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Gerald Breiner	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2001
Adrian Ashby	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2001
Claude Jeanpierre	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2001
Ischaler Grant	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
William Simon	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Stephen Chan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2001
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2001
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2001
Marianela Tejada	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Edward Colucci	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Howard Shank	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Guy Napoli	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 13 years old	Exonerated	2000
Kevin Gallagher	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2000
John Trotta	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2000
John Trotta	Lieutenant	White male	White female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2000
Herawattie Jeeuth	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2000
Anna Serrano	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Not available	Exonerated	2000
Alejandro Rivas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2000
Douglas Lansing	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2000
Thomas Schick	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2000
Cyress Smith	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 49 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2000
Anthony Quagliariello	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	1999
Joseph Albertini	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	1999
Brian Mullen	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
William Seligson	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	1998
Anthony Murray	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	1998
Johnny Orellana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1998
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1998
Douglas Lansing	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1998
Steven Green	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1998
Anthony Contessa	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1998
Joseph Mineo	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1998
James Dennedy	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1998
William Dunn	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1998
Joseph Hayes	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1998
Patrick Hennessy	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	1997
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1997
Matthew Lamendola	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1997
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1997
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1997
Joseph Grogan	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1997
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1997
James Mccarthy	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1997
Richard Warner	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1997
Anthony Quagliariello	Detective	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	1996
Kevin Maloney	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1996
William Sciara	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Instructions)	1996
Matthew Lamendola	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1996
Michael Howery	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	1996
Thomas Cerbone	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	1996
Jeffrey Maddrey	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	1995
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1995
Aubrey Henry	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	1995
Christophe Lagrasta	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1995

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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.