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
Gustavo Ochoa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2013
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
Alexis Dejesus	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2014
Julio Micheli	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Fernando Guimaraes	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2007
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
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Cesar Polanco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Miguel Donovan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available , 7 years old	Exonerated	2007
Victor Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2006
Joseph Azevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jose Moreno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Concepcion Robles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2007
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michael Perez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jorge Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2008
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jose Moreno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 11 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Erick Flores	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe Cruzado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2014
Juan Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Alejandro Valderrama	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Javier Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Franco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Marianela Tejada	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Francisco Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jerry Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Joseph Franco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
Milton Calix	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1997
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Florencio Arquer	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2013
Jason Sanders	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jonathan Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jose Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2013
Christophe Bastos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Andy Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2009
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Elliot Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	1996
Nathaniel Anthony	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jose Caban	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008
Nicholas Albergo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jose Caban	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2017
Maria Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 57 years old	Exonerated	2003
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2003
Jonathan Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Cintron	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2010
Carlos Cano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2011
Risel Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2014
Jacob Merino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Gregory Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2018
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2018
Gary Cerda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2007
Robert Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Ivelisse Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
John Zamot	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Franklyn Sepulveda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Eliot Arias	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2011
David Nisthaus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
David Nisthaus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Michael Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michael Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2012
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
Gustavo Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2013
Miguel Iglesias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2009
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jonathan Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Vito Nicoletta	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Sean Mchugh	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2008
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Livingston	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jason Harris	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1997
James Giamboi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2011
Michael Dunphy	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Louis Marinacci	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2014
James Delumen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
James Delumen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2003
Craig Crisfield	Detective	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Lance Walter	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Peter Rhatigan	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1996
Stephen Loschiavo	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2014
Brian Lapp	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2008
Bryan Hagmaier	Police Officer	White male	White male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2015
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Nicholas Ventimiglia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2009
Alfred Moberg	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1994
Joseph Tallarine	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	1995
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006

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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.