Abuse of Authority: THREAT OF FORCE (VERBAL OR PHYSICAL) - The NYPD Files

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Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)

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

710

Complaints

832

Allegations

912

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
Rodrigo Caballero	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Lafata	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ignazio Selvaggio	Police Officer	White male	White female, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Filastin Srour	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jeffrey Mayo	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2005
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Ohmeed Davodian	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Kirth Buckley	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ohmeed Davodian	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Mario Moreno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Miguel Marte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jose Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Bryan Zuccaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Karanlall Brijbukhan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Karanlall Brijbukhan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Thornton Booker	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Wilfredo Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Emilio Aponte	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Alwyn Phillips	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Richard Reilly	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Manuel Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Carleo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Neil Zuber	Police Officer	White male	White female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ricky Smalls	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Colin Higgins	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Kevin Paynter	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Mourad Mourad	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
John Ferrara	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Frank Baldo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Timothy Donnelly	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
John Facchini	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jason Reynolds	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Frank Danzi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Louis Barbarelli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Justin Prieto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
James Whitlock	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Richard Lavelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Eloy Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Luis Robles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Troy Luis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Michael Raso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Craig Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Francisco Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Berkley Vantull	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Sean Downes	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ralph Cilento	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Milton Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Rafael Montanez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Wilson Quiles	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Dunphy	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Waldron	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Angel Delgado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Robert Romano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
James Slavin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jose Briceno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Shaquan Harvin	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Steven Ramunno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Willy Yankovich	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2007
Marianela Tejada	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kaz Daughtry	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Christophe Schlanger	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mark Vazquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2007
Thomas Casey	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Anthony Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Lipton	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Starlette Gillespie	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Shapiro Lecorps	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Francisco Pina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
William Glynn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Davey Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mourad Mourad	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Derrick Milligan	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Kevin Matthews	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Marco Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Valva	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2007
Farid Aliyev	Police Officer	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Vito Nicoletta	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Andrew Duguid	Detective	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007

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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.