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
David Savella	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2016
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Matthew Hart	Police Officer	White male	White male, 79 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Novaidul Neon	Sergeant	Asian male	White male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2016
Hadi Saifi	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Henry Daverin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andre Parker	Detective	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2016
Eric Francis	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joel Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Robin Taveras	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Fernando Caches	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Fernando Caches	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Neils Veras	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Annmarie Guerra	Sergeant	Hispanic female	White female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Carrieri	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Miguele Amoresano	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 49 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
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andres Zambrano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Jonathan Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Dunn	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jose Moreno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 11 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andres Zambrano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Jon Derise	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Eric Bernard	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Vincent Fontana	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Stephen Jones	Police Officer	White male	White female, 70 years old	Exonerated	2016
Andres Zambrano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Rudy Anzalone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christian Spina	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Joel Crooms	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Farid Aliyev	Sergeant	White male	White male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
James Longo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Eric Bernard	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Brian Nyhus	Captain	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daniel Sitruk	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Zachery Zinaman	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Zachery Zinaman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Erik Depasquale	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Herman Lai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 53 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Justin Grieco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2016
Daniel Castaldo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2016
Vincent Calderone	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Sean Kern	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
John Keane	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Charles Ingrassia	Detective	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jena Leocadio	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2016
Guy Gargano	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Adan Munoz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Liam Ohara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brian Dobbins	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Gary Capellan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Daly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Richard Tarver	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jonathan Hom	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Claymont Defreitas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Lyndon Providence	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Paul Palminteri	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Sean Higgins	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Donald Kipp	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2015
Michael Mccarthy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Keith Knight	Detective	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Adriano Deleon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jamaal Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Herbert Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Stephen Sheppard	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Carlos Pacheco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Carlos Pacheco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Bekim Kalicovic	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
David Oconnell	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Hall	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
George Katris	Detective	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Danese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Nicholas Rios	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Edgar Gonzalez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Fernando Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
William Beattie	Police Officer	White male	Refused not described, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Timothy Harrington	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Juan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Keane	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
David Terrell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Mejia	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Johnpaul Giacona	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015

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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.