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
Kevin Judge	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2011
Dennis Harrigan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
David Shimshi	Sergeant	White male	White male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Richard Cohen	Sergeant	White male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Johnny Orellana	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Longo	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2011
Yevgeniy Zaytsev	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Williams	Detective	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Cynthia Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Osvaldo Nunez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Weber	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Victor Rosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kurt Cani	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Delgado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Edward Carrasco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Franklyn Sepulveda	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2011
Michael Scoloveno	Detective	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ramu Hiller	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Randy Rose	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Callinan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Martin Gimenez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Bernard Corso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Steven Green	Captain	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Eric Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Vazquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Vincent Candela	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Avidan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available female	Unsubstantiated	2011
Frank Bulzoni	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Scott Berger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joseph Barbella	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Timothy Jaycox	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2010
Gustavo Medina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Dennis Westbrook	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Kevin Breen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Dominick Nasso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Robert Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jared Rothschild	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
David Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Cordones	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Mcdonald	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Daniel Zollo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Colin Caesar	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jens Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Elijah Austin	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2010
Steven Weiss	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Greaney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Seminara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Stephen Dimassa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ted Holway	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Gerald Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ted Holway	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Adriano Deleon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Angel Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Albert Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Thomas Cozart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Barbella	Police Officer	White male	White male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2010
Justin Ellis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Paul Oconnor	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Mario Morales	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Eric Cox	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Anthony Cimmino	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Lembo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Kaisser Surriga	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Carlos Nieves	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Derek Sambolin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
Carlos Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Jose Bonilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Thomas Cozart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jeremy Veit	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Maurice Harrington	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Lawrence Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edward Carrasco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Anthony Ronda	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Victor Rosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Vincent Calderone	Police Officer	White male	White male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Nocerino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Darren Melhado	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Derrick Milligan	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edward Moore	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Humberto Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010

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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.