Force: GUN POINTED - The NYPD Files

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Force: Gun Pointed

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

531

Complaints

548

Allegations

628

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 Reo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2012
Leandro Castro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2006
Anthony Andino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Collura	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2003
Yevgeniy Zaytsev	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2014
Patrick Gaines	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2004
Ralph Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Victor Rosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2011
Ricardo Otero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2012
Yevgeniy Zaytsev	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2011
Eric Jordan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Christos Deftereos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Dustin Genco	Detective	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Douglas Lansing	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2003
Michael Lennihan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2009
Burt Antoine	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jorge Ulloa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2017
Herbert Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Timothy Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Burt Antoine	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Alexandros Kalogiros	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2009
Alexandros Kalogiros	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gregory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Gregory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Exonerated	2015
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
Nicholas Ventimiglia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2009
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Raymond Abreu	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Brian Lapp	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2010
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Charles Arnone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Craig Crisfield	Detective	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
James Delumen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2003
James Delumen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Christophe Cruzado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2014
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jose Moreno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 11 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Radoslaw Terepka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2013
James Giamboi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2011
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Sophia Clarke	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Adriano Deleon	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2018
Thomas Manning	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2017
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 67 years old	Exonerated	2015
Juan Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
William Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2005
Keyana Kendall	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Patrick Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2006
Todd Hansen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2014
David Levine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2002
Michael Tarulli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jason Sanders	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Reddin	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2014
Tyrone Thompson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Fitzgibbon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2013
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 11 years old	Exonerated	2002
Vito Poliseno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
James Eisert	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2003
Nicholas Albergo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Hassan Raza	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Gibbs	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joseph Mcevoy	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jose Caban	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008
William Diab	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2015
Janson Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Diego Dotres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joseph Mcevoy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2013
William Diab	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
William Diab	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Dennis Friendly	Detective	Black male	Black female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2011
Dennis Friendly	Detective	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Nisthaus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Michael Edmonds	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2004
Shawn Wilkinson	Detective	Black male	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Frank Burns	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2002
William Waldron	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jason Sharp	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 57 years old	Exonerated	2003
Christophe Sanchez	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jose Caban	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2017
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Eric Pena	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jens Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Michael Edmonds	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2003
Benjamin White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jason Forgione	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2018
Oscar Wdowiak	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Gregory Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2018

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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.