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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
Jeremy Banfield	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Sean Mchugh	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Joseph Nicosia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Christophe Pasquale	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Mark Grant	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Francesco Allevato	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ruben Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Rohan Griffith	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 39 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2012
Shameeka Cummings	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2012
Scott Lieneck	Detective	White male	Hispanic female	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jeffrey Hunold	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Ward	Detective	White male	Black female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Troy Luis	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jacob Giannelli	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Grieco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 84 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Sean Christian	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2011
Carlos Lozada	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Patrick Gannon	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Rolando Carbonell	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Rashan Lacoste	Detective	Black male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
John Bellico	Detective	White male	White male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mark Holder	Detective	Black male	Other Race male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2010
Peter Valentin	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Dennis Westbrook	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Devaney	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Dominick Nasso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Eli Slavkin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jason Harris	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jeremy Banfield	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Alex Toro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2009
Andre Figueiredo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Barbara Fischer	Sergeant	White female	White female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ralph Pacheco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 63 years old	Exonerated	2008
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Luke Gasquez	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2008
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Robert Barnett	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gennaro Russo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Scoloveno	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2007
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 66 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
George Katris	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Kristian Flood	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Matthew Granahan	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Edward Barry	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
John Fogelman	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2006
Christophe Greiner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Thomas Marco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Parks	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Anthony Gulotta	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
John Oconnor	Sergeant	White male	White male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Craig Crisfield	Detective	White male	Black female, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Bieniewicz	Police Officer	White male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Carl Roadarmel	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2005
James Hynes	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2005
Ignazio Selvaggio	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Christopher McCormack	Sergeant	White male	White male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2003
Brian Depalo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 57 years old	Exonerated	2003
Rafael Vega	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Titus Parham	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2001
Frank Palumbo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2001
Angel Arroyo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Deodat Urprasad	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999

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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.