Force: CHOKEHOLD - The NYPD Files

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Force: Chokehold

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

223

Complaints

236

Allegations

244

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
Richard Turk	Detective	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Luis Bellapianta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Anthony Demonte	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Steven Weiss	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
James Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Nathaniel Anthony	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2003
Eric Konoski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Anthony Salato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Tyrone Thompson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Scott Nuzzi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Selwyn Fonrose	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Jose Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Charles Stewart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jerry Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Patrick Cortright	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Mack Lipinski	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Lawrence Fiorello	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mourad Mourad	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Philip Picciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Alberto Pizarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Felix Delcarpio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ricardo Otero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Luis Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Brian Ellensohn	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jonathan Troncoso	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Karanlall Brijbukhan	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Other Race male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jorge Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2008
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jorge Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Diaz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jamaal Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jhovanny Ysabel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Friedman	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Erick Flores	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Carlos Lewis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Matthew Starrantino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Christian Addison	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Luke Gasquez	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joey Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jose Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Amit Dua	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Paul Gaglio	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Fabio Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Roberson Tunis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Elvis Cole	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Greaney	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
David Afanador	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Greaney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Roman Goris	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jose Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Dominick Nasso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Alvin Pizarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Leonardo Deoliveira	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Charles Cadiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Lembo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Ianno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Andre Blake	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Martin Gimenez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Emrah Ates	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Francisco Pina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Filastin Srour	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Matos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Sean Mccarren	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Redmond	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Charles Awani	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mirjan Lolja	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Adnan Radoncic	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Alberto Pizarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Frank Calafiore	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Francisco Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Richard Aseng	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Wilson Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Gukelberger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ryan Hoffmann	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
William Pierce	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012

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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.