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
Eric Droz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2019
Anthony Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Andrew Lindsay	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jeffrey Mota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Eloy Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jonathan Correa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Yvonne Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 12 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Richard Lavelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Farid Aliyev	Police Officer	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Thomas Bodai	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Milton Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Thomas Cozart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
David Caro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Barbella	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Miles Holman	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2013
Louis Barbarelli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Loeffel	Police Officer	White male	White female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Soney Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
William Glynn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Alexander Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Karla Arvayo	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Joel Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Sean Kern	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Aman Rana	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Raso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Raso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jeremy Veit	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Yefersson Salasmartinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Orvin Feliciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mauricio Thomas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Wilson Alba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2008
Wilson Alba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jonathan Ku	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Juan Quiroz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Eric Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Anthony Salato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Daly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Andrew Nguyen	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2019
Carlos Silva	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Lyndon Providence	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
David Savella	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michael Valva	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2007
Troy Luis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Milton Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Daniel Pietranico	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Raphael Sylvestre	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Guy Napoli	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2000
Michael Goldreyer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Judith Moreno	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Liam Ohara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Felix Arana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jeffrey Arceo	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Gary Capellan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Bernard Corso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Thomas Cozart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Greg Desideri	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Franklin Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Brian Dobbins	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Dobbins	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Starlette Gillespie	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Anthony Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Ronald Hobson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Dominick Nasso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Dany Fana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Frank Amill	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Merlyn Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Christian Spina	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Patrick Horkan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2007
David Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Rafael Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andre Morris	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2018
Edward Obrien	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Risel Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Vincent Calderone	Police Officer	White male	White male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Steve Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Patrick Craig	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2012
Joseph Dionisi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2019
Joseph Dionisi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Joseph Dionisi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2019
Steven Rupnick	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2017

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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.