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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
Thomas Smith	Captain	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Hall	Captain	White male	Refused male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2018
Ernest Morales	Deputy Inspector	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2017
Theodore Federoff	Deputy Inspector	White male	Other Race male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2018
Christophe Ward	Detective	White male	Black female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mark Holder	Detective	Black male	Other Race male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2010
Mark Grant	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Scott Lieneck	Detective	White male	Hispanic female	Unsubstantiated	2012
Anthony Davila	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2016
Darrel Oneill	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Patrick Dooley	Detective	White male	Black female, 10 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
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
John Bellico	Detective	White male	White male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Rolando Carbonell	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
John Fogelman	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2006
Paul Brauer	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2015
Felix Garcia	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 71 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	White male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2014
Carl Roadarmel	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jason Ribeiro	Detective	Asian male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2017
John Baumeister	Detective	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Rashan Lacoste	Detective	Black male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Silverio	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2017
Daniel Silverio	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Craig Crisfield	Detective	White male	Black female, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Carlos Lozada	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Peter Valentin	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Felix Garcia	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Wilson Verdesoto	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 57 years old	Exonerated	2003
Thomas White	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jason Harris	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Sean Mchugh	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Devaney	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Isa Abbassi	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jeremy Banfield	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jeremy Banfield	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Frank Cannone	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Wael Jaber	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jonathan Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2016
Fernando Caches	Police Officer	White male	White male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Jacob Giannelli	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jose Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kristian Flood	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Mccaffrey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2015
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
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
Michael Tarulli	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Matthew Granahan	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Brian Benvenuto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Valerie Durets	Police Officer	White female	White female, 57 years old	Exonerated	2016
Rafael Vega	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Michael Kaczor	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Scott Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Ignazio Selvaggio	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Jordan Lomba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Thomas Marco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jeffrey Hunold	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Sean Christian	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2011
Shameeka Cummings	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2012
David Grieco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 84 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jonathan Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Nicosia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Titus Parham	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2001
Henry Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 71 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Triston Trunk	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Gennaro Russo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Dennis Westbrook	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Md Rahman	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2018
Alban Kalaj	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Pedro Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 54 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Christophe Greiner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jeffrey Brown	Police Officer	Black male	White female	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
George Katris	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Stacey Ellis	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Frank Palumbo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2001
Kiesha Lawhorne	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Matthew Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Gladys Modesto	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Lawrence Perrotta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Joseph Bieniewicz	Police Officer	White male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Francesco Allevato	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Anthony Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Cory Levy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Shawn Moynihan	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Irvin Saenz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Gregory Pahl	Police Officer	White male	White male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Jonathan Glazer	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2014
Stephen Polesovsky	Police Officer	White male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Schwaner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Eric Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014

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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.