Force: NIGHTSTICK AS CLUB (INCL ASP & BATON) - The NYPD Files

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Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton)

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

218

Complaints

242

Allegations

260

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
Michael Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
Gerasimos Pyramides	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2009
Angela Polancobrito	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Melchor Alban	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 59 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Stephen Loffredo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2015
Alfredo Brewster	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
Frank Gambina	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jonathan Rothenberg	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jonathan Rothenberg	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Tyrane Isaac	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2013
Anthony Baresi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2015
Colin Caesar	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Colin Caesar	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2005
Colin Caesar	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Juan Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2014
Derek Barreto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Robert Amaty	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Leek	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2011
Clyde Jasmin	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2010
Jacobo Garay	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2011
Milton Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2008
Victor Appel	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Chad Mack	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Lydia Figueroa	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Lydia Figueroa	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2012
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
Seth Lynch	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2009
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 0 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Brian Clements	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2008
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Mchugh	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Derrick Milligan	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Troy Peacock	Sergeant	Black male	Asian male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2019
Martin Gimenez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2011
Andrew Valenzano	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Shevitz	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jon Derise	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daniel Mufaddi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Robert King	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Timothy Jaycox	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Lamont Gibson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Christian Addison	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Thomas Kid	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Thomas Kid	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2006
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Jason Deonarinesingh	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
Daryl Melhado	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2014
Edwin Soto	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 59 years old	Exonerated	2016
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Joseph Matzinger	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
Levon Holley	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Robert Falcone	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2017
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Omar Birchwood	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013

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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.