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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Obrien | Police Officer | White male | White male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Michael Mccarthy | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Thomas Bodai | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Nicholas Bekas | Police Officer | White male | White male, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Steven Gansrow | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Michael Pyzikiewicz | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Hector Justinico | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Frank Giunta | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| James Lee | Lieutenant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Brett Woodard | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Jonathan Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Anthony Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Andrei Nijnic | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| German Gonzalez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Tiffany Brucewatson | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Aleksandr Pasynkov | Sergeant | White male | White male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Wojciech Czech | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Adrian Ramon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Andre Morris | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Nicholas Albergo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Ryan Olsen | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Avidan Santiago | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Magdalena Raznikiewicz | Sergeant | White female | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Marino Lorenzo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Andrew Nash | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Frank Ryan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| John Chavatte | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Damian Fana | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Marlon Wright | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Tiffany Brucewatson | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| John Mchugh | Detective | White male | Black female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Christophe Sanchez | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Christophe Sanchez | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Franklin Diaz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Ryan Mcguinness | Lieutenant | White male | White male, 63 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jose Santory | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jason Garcia | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Jason Garcia | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Ian Abramowitz | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 25 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Bryan Ortiz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jason Guzman | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Unknown female, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Mark Anderson | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Steve Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Charles Hillery | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 39 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Jorge Flores | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jason Brown | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Charles Hillery | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 49 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Kevin Cox | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Yefersson Salasmartinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Adriano Deleon | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Timothy Burke | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Johnny Mitchell | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Shawn Gallagher | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Stacey Ellis | Police Officer | Black female | Hispanic male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| John Diaz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| James Titus | Police Officer | White male | Black male | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Steve Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Andrew Cummings | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Carl Scogmanillo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Timothy Burke | Sergeant | White male | Black male | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jonathan Galindosanchez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Michael Gargano | Police Officer | White male | White male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Timothy Lerner | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Andre Morris | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Dion Edwards | Detective | Black male | Black male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Michael Algerio | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Resembric Altamar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available , 24 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Eric Droz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Shawn Moynihan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Jeremiah Williams | Detective | Black male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| 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 |
| David Grieco | Sergeant | White male | Unknown male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| 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 |
| Yefet Sharabi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 52 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| William Diab | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Robert Falcone | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Blake Ficken | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Scott Hampton | Police Officer | White male | Not available , 59 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Scott Hampton | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Zachery Zinaman | Police Officer | White male | White female, 55 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Kyron Delarosa | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Renan Darbouze | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 36 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Ever Cruz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| John Pedersen | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Scott Hampton | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Louis Depergola | Sergeant | White male | Other Race female, 29 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Matthew Vahey | Detective | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Michal Jalbrzykowski | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Nicholas Schiraldi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Michael Smith | Sergeant | White male | Asian male, 49 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Scott Hampton | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Scott Hampton | Police Officer | White male | Not available male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Edmundo Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Karla Arvayo | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
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.