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

Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

Search for Officer by Name or Badge Number

Look Up a Precinct or Unit

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
Brian Nyhus	Captain	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Bruce Ceparano	Captain	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2017
Stephen Espinoza	Captain	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Steven Green	Captain	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Odalis Perez	Detective	Hispanic female	Unknown female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Byran Pitts	Detective	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Carlos Lozada	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mohammed Rios	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Lowez Walker	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rolando Carbonell	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Eric Cox	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2010
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Matthew Vahey	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Michael Scoloveno	Detective	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jason Garcia	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
George Katris	Detective	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Andrew Fago	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kaz Daughtry	Detective	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jose Dejesus	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michele Butera	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Scott Lieneck	Detective	White male	White male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2018
Joseph Viggiano	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Rodrigo Caballero	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Douglas Lansing	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2000
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andrew Duguid	Detective	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Patrick Smith	Detective	American Indian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
James Miles	Detective	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
John Mchugh	Detective	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Robert Simms	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Dean Campbell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph Franco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Charles Ingrassia	Detective	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jose Peinan	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Guy Gargano	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Brian Fleming	Detective	White male	Refused male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Andrew Fago	Detective	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Salerno	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Keith Knight	Detective	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Peter Valentin	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Raymond Abear	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2019
Jason Jones	Detective	Black male	Unknown male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Alberto Angilletta	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Herbert Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Frank Sarrica	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Andre Parker	Detective	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Mohammed Rios	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2017
Patrick Smith	Detective	American Indian male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2017
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Carlos Vazquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jason Garcia	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Emrah Ates	Detective	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Currao	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	1998
Dustin Genco	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jose Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2004
Emily Rivera	Detective	Hispanic female	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ramu Hiller	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Franklyn Sepulveda	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2011
Paul Digiacomo	Detective	White male	White male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Robert Schierenbeck	Detective	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Edgar Gonzalez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Reilly	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
John Facchini	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Nicholas Norris	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
John Mcdonnell	Detective	White male	White female, 70 years old	Exonerated	2016
Daniel Baca	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mike Civil	Detective	Black male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jeremiah Williams	Detective	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Andrew Nash	Detective	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2018
Dean Campbell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
James Williams	Detective	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Karanlall Brijbukhan	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Terrell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Joseph Fernandez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christopher McCormack	Inspector	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Frank Tarantola	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005

‹ Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next ›

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.