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
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Neil Zuber	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Charles Ingrassia	Detective	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Peter Valentin	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jamaal Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Baumeister	Detective	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Umar Khitab	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Paul Dieugenia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Francesco Allevato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Brandon Gembecki	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Erick Erdaide	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Anthony Peters	Sergeant	Black male	Asian male, 0 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert Carbone	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Eliot Arias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Declan Ludington	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Bekim Kalicovic	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Sitruk	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ronald Hobson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Frank Diaz	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Pete Massa	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Dustin Dimpflmaier	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Felix Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Harjit Singh	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Staple	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Dino Tamayo	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Gregory Kennedy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Dustin Dimpflmaier	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Justin Allen	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Orlando	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
John Ryan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Anthony Baresi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jonathan Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jose Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Adan Munoz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Herman Lai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Darrel Oneill	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jonathan Re	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Deshawn Edmonds	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Tatiana Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Other Race male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jeffrey Mota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Colin Mcguire	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Juan Moreno	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alexander Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
James Haviland	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ernesto Bautista	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Anthony Longobardi	Captain	White male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Mcdonnell	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Daniel Herzog	Detective	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Slavin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Victor Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Paul Farella	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jaspreet Gill	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Sean Phillips	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Charles Galletta	Police Officer	White male	White male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Liam Ohara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Danese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Frederic Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jean Francisco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Patrick Burnett	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Melchor Alban	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Cesar Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Fernando Centenotalavera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Antonio Cannata	Police Officer	White male	White male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Jorge Monge	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Ardolino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Juan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Fernando Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Lyndon Providence	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Colin Caesar	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jared Dietzel	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Joel Polanco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Francesco Cusimano	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Paul Gaglio	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic female, 11 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Risel Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Fernando Caches	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Armando Cardenio	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Fermin Bueno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Christophe Sanchez	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Thomas Morton	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016

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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.