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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 |
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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 |
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.