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Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object

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

165

Complaints

167

Allegations

176

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
Stephen Schoefer	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Lipari	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Frank Desiderato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Jose Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Miguel Figueroa	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Sean Pallone	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jorge Minier	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2013
Anthony Ricciardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mark Scarlatelli	Detective	White male	White male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Mccaffrey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Ronald Hobson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ruben Guerrero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Fernando Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Harjit Singh	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Lawrence Thomas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Fernando Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nicholas Neve	Detective	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Marcel Francis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Yuseff Hamm	Detective	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ricardo Cuenca	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Daniel Sitruk	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2014
Eliezer Pabon	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Anton Bartoldus	Police Officer	White male	Refused female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Colin Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Daly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Rhea Tiwary	Police Officer	Asian female	White female, 61 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Kevin Colvin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Cleary	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 77 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Claymont Defreitas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Anis Nikocevic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2015
Johnny Chalen	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Patrick Quigley	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Shawn Phillips	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 61 years old	Exonerated	2015
Nicholas Canepa	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Charles Buglione	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kenneth Sepulveda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2016
Frederic Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2016
Tiery Samuels	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Yaris Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Yaris Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Konti Markvukaj	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Tonica Corlette	Sergeant	Black female	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Umar Khitab	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Brian Hickey	Police Officer	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jonathan Glazer	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daniel Coyle	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jacobo Garay	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2017
Sean Mcdonnell	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joby Thomas	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Sean Liscoe	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Edward Boyle	Police Officer	White male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Paul Robinson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2017
Edward Boyle	Police Officer	White male	White female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christophe Aylward	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Thomas Leonardo	Police Officer	White male	White male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Umar Khitab	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Eric Droz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
David Bleck	Police Officer	White male	White male, 75 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Tyler Howe	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Miguel Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
David Demelia	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Richard Mcknight	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2018
Kyron Delarosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Thomas Enders	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2018
Thomas Enders	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Flavio Rodriguez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Simon Rashid	Detective	Asian male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jason Barish	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Daniel Rivas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 75 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Eric Droz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Dennis Friendly	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2019
Eduard Lucero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019

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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.