Force: GUN POINTED - The NYPD Files

Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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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
Joseph Durante	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 62 years old	Exonerated	2005
Matthew Fried	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Patrick Cain	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Matthew Granahan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Evan Nielsen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Joseph Collura	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2003
Gustavo Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2013
William Reddin	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2014
Ivelisse Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jacob Merino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Charlie Harvell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2013
William Buchanan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2007
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Gerald Cucchiara	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2018
Daniel Beddows	Detective	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Mccaughey	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Jose Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 57 years old	Exonerated	2003
Nicholas Albergo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jose Caban	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jose Caban	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2017
Tyrone Thompson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
William Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2005
Curtis Crystal	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2002
Philip Rivera	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Eric Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2004
Angela Polancobrito	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2011
Kevin Colvin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Daniel Lampert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2011
Matthew Mozdziak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Francisco Castillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2006
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2014
Angelo Pizzarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2013
Volodymyr Burdeynyy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Tyrane Isaac	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2014
Mario Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2004
Martin Gimenez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Martin Gimenez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lamont Gibson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Carlos Pimentel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Juan Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2014
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2014
Matthew Dias	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joseph Imperatrice	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2013
Joseph Weldon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Matthew Demaio	Detective	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Michael Raso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Jorge Tavarez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joseph Spalding	Detective	Black male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
David Lamarre	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Anthony Salato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 62 years old	Exonerated	2005
Darrien King	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Pellegrin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
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
Edward Colucci	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2001
Jose Dejesus	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Vincenzo Dimartino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2013
Starlin Dominguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2016
Marcin Drozniak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jason Garcia	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Robert Henderson	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2003
Dennis Jaeger	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Dennis Jaeger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Dominick Nasso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2004
Eric Ortiz	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Parchen	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Perez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
James Picicci	Detective	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2002
Jason Ribeiro	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2017
Eric Samuels	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Raymond Tomins	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Andrew Valenzano	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2000
Matthew Vorraro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James White	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2017
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Argila	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2013
Joseph Brunetti	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2007
Douglas Carr	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2007
John Cascone	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2008
Clifford Louis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2013
Patrick Craig	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2012
Shapiro Lecorps	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Keith Chatterton	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2018
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2012
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michael Carleo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2015
Patrick Cortright	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Gerald Stlouis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2013
Neil Casey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2012
Joel Rosenthal	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
William Pugliese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
William Pugliese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2016
William Pugliese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Paul Marconi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2007
Robert Hawreluk	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Christophe Lagrasta	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2005

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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.