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
Joseph Sotira	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Maximo Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2017
Leon Batson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Aleksandr Kovalenko	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Alan Hassel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Asghar Mahmood	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Dany Fana	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2017
Wilfredo Benitez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jalal Ali	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Jonathan Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Maribel Burgos	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Asghar Mahmood	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Nanhao Chen	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Matthew Kreisman	Police Officer	White male	White female, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Chris Palmeri	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2017
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	White female, 67 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joel Riveragonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
John Gergis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Bruce Ceparano	Captain	White male	Other Race female, 42 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Byran Pitts	Detective	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
Ricardo Lewis	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jose Garcia	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2017
William Froehlich	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
William Froehlich	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Isaac Souchak	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 59 years old	Exonerated	2017
Matthew Moschetto	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Thomas Mcdonnell	Detective	White male	Asian female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2017
Abiola Errico	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Anthony Hyde	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2017
Daniel Shaw	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2017
David Grieco	Sergeant	White male	Not available male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2017
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Joseph Padula	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2017
Steven Rupnick	Police Officer	White male	Unknown not described	Unsubstantiated	2017
Keith Chatterton	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christophe Mcdonald	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Yael Magori	Lieutenant	White female	White female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2017
Bruce Ceparano	Captain	White male	Other Race female, 42 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
David Grieco	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Farid Aliyev	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Andy Roque	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Robert Barnett	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Angel Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Ronit Vyas	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Timothy Terrillion	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2017
Paul Robinson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Gregory Green	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2017
Sean Collins	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2017
Scott Hughes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Darrell Lowe	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christophe Ward	Sergeant	White male	White female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Matthew Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2016
Andre Gayle	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 81 years old	Exonerated	2016
Brendan Dono	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Javier Santos	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Desmond Mohan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Brian Dobbins	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
David Oyague	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Andre Gayle	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 81 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2016
Konti Markvukaj	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michael Lunetta	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Edwin Soto	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 59 years old	Exonerated	2016
Anthony Longobardi	Captain	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2016
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jacklyn Villanueva	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Waylon Fradera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2016
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brian Green	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jon Derise	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Ananda Mirandamessner	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White male, 67 years old	Exonerated	2016
Luis Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Stanley Macnear	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Brandon Gembecki	Police Officer	White male	White male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Nicholas Albergo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ronald Remo	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joseph Gulotta	Inspector	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Julio Meyreles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kerin Quinn	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Taejoong Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Minh Tran	Sergeant	Asian male	Unknown female	Unsubstantiated	2016
Francisco Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Amit Dua	Sergeant	Asian male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Matthew Dias	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ronald Humphrey	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jose Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Scott Dalessandro	Sergeant	White male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christophe Wit	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Derrick Kreckmann	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
John Mcdonnell	Detective	White male	White female, 70 years old	Exonerated	2016
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Thomas Smith	Captain	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Albert Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 53 years old	Exonerated	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.