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
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jena Leocadio	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2016
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andre Parker	Detective	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kevon Sample	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Henry Daverin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brian Nyhus	Captain	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Dean Campbell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Dean Campbell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Pugliese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph King	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Anthony Jones	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Eric Bernard	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
James Longo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Eric Stclair	Police Officer	White male	White male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Joel Crooms	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Eric Bernard	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Taejoong Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Nicholas Norris	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Charles Ingrassia	Detective	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Aleksandr Kovalenko	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Jonathan Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Neils Veras	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jason Sanders	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jose Moreno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 11 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Lewellyn Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Bradley Field	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Vincent Fontana	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
John Keane	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Nicolas Mahuad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Eric Delman	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Matthew Medina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Matthew Medina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Kaz Daughtry	Detective	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2017
Martin Cunningham	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
John Facchini	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
John Mejia	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Steven Rupnick	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2017
Raphael Sylvestre	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Steven Rupnick	Police Officer	White male	Unknown not described	Unsubstantiated	2017
James Miles	Detective	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Byran Pitts	Detective	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2017
Michael Loeffel	Police Officer	White male	White female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Nicolas Mahuad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2017
Gary Aaronson	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 68 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Ronit Vyas	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Castaldo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2017
Thomas Nicoletti	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Soney Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Becker	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Alexander Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Patrick Smith	Detective	American Indian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Alexi Serpani	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
David Shimshi	Sergeant	White male	White female, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Kevon Sample	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Louis Villegas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Kevon Sample	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2017
John Chavatte	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Sean Murphy	Police Officer	White male	White male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Patrick Smith	Detective	American Indian male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2017
Christophe Ward	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Peter Guido	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Bruce Ceparano	Captain	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2017
Nicolas Mahuad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 52 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Jesus Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Edward Pellerano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 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
John Keane	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Dany Fana	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2017
Mohammed Rios	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Mohammed Rios	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2017
Andre Teterycz	Sergeant	White male	White female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Peter Borisenko	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Robert Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
John Gergis	Police Officer	White male	White male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Nicholas Kane	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Derrick Mcintosh	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Christophe Moroni	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Mobeen Yasin	Sergeant	Asian male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2017
Cesar Gomez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Edgar Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Daniel Boylan	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Bobby Glover	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Eric Delman	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Mary Cunningham	Police Officer	White female	Asian male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	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.