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Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property
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
162
Complaints
162
Allegations
171
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Davila | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Jovaniel Cordova | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 10 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Matthew Pena | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 52 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Jovaniel Cordova | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Tonica Corlette | Sergeant | Black female | Black male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Cory Levy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Joseph Sotira | Police Officer | White male | Refused female, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Henry Daverin | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Michele Herbst | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic female, 10 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Jose Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 59 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Wael Jaber | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Valerie Durets | Police Officer | White female | White female, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Jonathan Colon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Felix Garcia | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Neils Veras | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Gregory Pahl | Police Officer | White male | White male, 47 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
| Kevin Martin | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Stephen Polesovsky | Police Officer | White male | White male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Michael Tarulli | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 57 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Matthew Kreisman | Police Officer | White male | White female, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Scott Rizzo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Patricio Ovando | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black female, 52 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Jonathan Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Anthony Donato | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Kevon Husband | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Farid Aliyev | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Jose Cintron | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 54 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Jose Cintron | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Kiesha Lawhorne | Police Officer | Black female | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Joseph Imperatrice | Sergeant | White male | Unknown female, 70 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Frank Burns | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jason Ribeiro | Detective | Asian male | Black female, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Daniel Silverio | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Nicholas Kane | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Vitaliy Zelikov | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Patrick Quigley | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Robert Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Ernest Morales | Deputy Inspector | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Robert Barnett | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Michaelang Hidalgo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Stacey Ellis | Police Officer | Black female | Hispanic male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Anthony Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jeffrey Brown | Police Officer | Black male | White female | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Thomas Smith | Captain | White male | White male, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Felix Garcia | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 71 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Fernando Caches | Police Officer | White male | White male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Md Rahman | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Angel Andujar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Triston Trunk | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Brendan Dono | Police Officer | White male | White male, 52 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Gladys Modesto | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic female, 41 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Daniel Silverio | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| John Hall | Captain | White male | Refused male, 53 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Yevgeniy Zaytsev | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Brian Benvenuto | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Shawn Moynihan | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 25 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Andrew Cummings | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jeffrey Brown | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Irvin Saenz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 41 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Joseph Schwaner | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 57 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Theodore Federoff | Deputy Inspector | White male | Other Race male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Ashley Griffith | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Matthew Librizzi | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 36 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Diego Dotres | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 72 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Henry Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 71 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Jason Barish | Police Officer | White male | American Indian male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Jose Santory | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Pedro Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 54 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Angel Delgado | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| David Ramirez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
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.