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
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2018
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Derek Sambolin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
Carlos Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Hairo Franco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Sean Higgins	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jason Cira	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Denisha Pierre	Police Officer	Black female	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2005
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Gregory Long	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Sidorskiy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2003
Resembric Altamar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available , 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Resembric Altamar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2019
Steven Dejesussmith	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2016
Garey Gordon	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Boylan	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Nicholas Kane	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Algerio	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Rafael Perdomo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Matthew Mozdziak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Carlos Fabara	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Joseph Bieniewicz	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Justin Ellis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Herman Lai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 53 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Ronit Vyas	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Tiffany Brucewatson	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Tiffany Brucewatson	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Yaris Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Lembo	Police Officer	White male	White male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jose Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Carlos Pimentel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Shawn Moynihan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2019
Nicholas Rios	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Colin Caesar	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Colin Caesar	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Cordones	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Deshawn Edmonds	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Carrieri	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Pamela Benites	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male	Exonerated	2007
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Kerbis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Willus Murray	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Paul Prendergast	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Luis Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Sean Downes	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Steven Gansrow	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Ischaler Grant	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2001
Jose Caban	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Mufaddi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jose Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert King	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jon Derise	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Cynthia Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kevin Matthews	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Kevin Matthews	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	American Indian male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Mario Moreno	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Gulotta	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2001
Alexander Wancel	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2012
Edward Barry	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Federico Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2002
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Freddy Dominguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2004
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2016
Franklin Bohr	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Stuart Wohl	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Gerald Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Louis Depergola	Sergeant	White male	Other Race female, 29 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Andre Teterycz	Sergeant	White male	White female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Aleksandr Pasynkov	Sergeant	White male	White male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2018
Michael Smith	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Diaz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Troy Luis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Magdalena Raznikiewicz	Sergeant	White female	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Mackenson Nelson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Mobeen Yasin	Sergeant	Asian male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2017
Trevor Baronette	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2013
Angel Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Christophe Muller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Charles Barberi	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2004
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Robert Clark	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jason Guzman	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Howard Zweben	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009

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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.