Abuse of Authority: THREAT OF SUMMONS - The NYPD Files

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Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Summons

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

109

Complaints

114

Allegations

116

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
Charles Barberi	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1994
Carlos Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Charles Barberi	Sergeant	White male	Not available , 21 years old	Exonerated	1999
William Maye	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1998
Patrick Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Not available female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Thomas Cerbone	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	1996
Gregory Butler	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	1997
Joyce Williams	Police Officer	Black female	Not available	Exonerated	1998
Yezenia Wagner	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Asian male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2018
Patrick Cherry	Detective	White male	Asian male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Francisco Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Andrew Buck	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2002
Michael Pyzikiewicz	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Gregory Gianacopulos	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2003
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2004
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2005
Adnan Radoncic	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Christian Salazar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2018
Christophe Klein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Armando Cardenio	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kevin Judge	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2004
Marcy Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kevin Mockel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2015
Darnell Forrester	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 67 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Nico Hewitt	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Nico Hewitt	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2012
Leon Batson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jonathan Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Christophe Oconnor	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Ramiro Ruiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2002
Zoilo Encarnacion	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Mark Ward	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Joseph Mcevoy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Mark Kistoo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Bryan Vaughan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Louis Pepe	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Bruce Ceparano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Vincenzo Trabolse	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2012
Ryan Healy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Richard Adamiak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
William Ditomaso	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2005
Richard Bergin	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Brian Depalo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Andrew Bershad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Kenneth Gallart	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Jeffrey Hunold	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Florencio Arquer	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2008
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Pedro Rios	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Pasquale Dethomas	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2019
Jose Delrosario	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Pasquale Dethomas	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2019
Michael Whelan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Oswald	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Edward Mcclain	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Amaury Tineo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Shuzhen Wong	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Senia Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Juan Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Argila	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Hassan Paris	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2019
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Perry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 74 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2004
Brendan Dono	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Alejandro Valderrama	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2013
Christophe Napolitano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2016
Emilio Estevez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Paul Polintan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
George Isabel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Alexander Wancel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Joby Thomas	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Vincent Dima	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
William Froehlich	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Ruben Serrano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2012
Scott Hampton	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 50 years old	Exonerated	2019
Michael White	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Il Baik	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Ioannis Rizos	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2018
Danny Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Daniel Pietranico	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2017
Miguel Donovan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Robert Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Lennoxann Samerson	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2019
Ryan Dowling	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jason Santana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Smith	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Albert Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Miguel Donovan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Maria Jeanty	Police Officer	Black female	Other Race male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Angel Rolon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2018

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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.