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
Frank Amill	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Judith Moreno	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Nicholas Albano	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jason Sharp	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kevin Mockel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Blake Sydlo	Police Officer	White male	White male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2009
Bryan Cullen	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2009
Anthony Proscia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kenneth Dwyer	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Orvin Feliciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Gregory Long	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Troy Peacock	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Herve Francois	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ramiro Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Tiffany Brucewatson	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Kearney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Michael Diaz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
John Giangrandi	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Christophe Kerbis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mack Lipinski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Andy Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Gerald Cucchiara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Taiwo Adeleke	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Erik Depasquale	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Mahoney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Daryl Melhado	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Steven Ramunno	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2009
Stuart Wohl	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Dmitry Durets	Sergeant	White male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Howard Zweben	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mourad Arslanbeck	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Juan Quiroz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Nicholas Monello	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Nathaniel Anthony	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Francisco Adames	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jason Cira	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Erik Rubinstein	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Merlyn Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Lee Wittek	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Antwon Trent	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2009
Orvin Feliciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Mufaddi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
John Hall	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Matthew Fried	Police Officer	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Sergio Merino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Andre Figueiredo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2008
Derek Lenart	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ray Dutton	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2008
Michael Szczecinski	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Eduard Nogol	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 14 years old	Exonerated	2008
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	American Indian male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jude Reimbeau	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
Alexandros Kalogiros	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Eli Slavkin	Police Officer	White male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ramiro Burgarelli	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Brian Fleming	Detective	White male	Refused male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jerry Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Robert Schierenbeck	Detective	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Robert King	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Wilfredo Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Damon Martin	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Damon Martin	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Derrick Milligan	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
William Falcone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Robert Dress	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Karanlall Brijbukhan	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2008
Bilal Ates	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Thomas Casey	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Hairo Franco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Francis Clough	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Rafael Perdomo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Wilson Alba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Francisco Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Robert Simms	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ruben Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
George Katris	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2008
Mathew Reich	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008

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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.