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
Jeffrey Maddrey	Deputy Inspector	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Johnpaul Slater	Detective	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2009
Robert Clark	Detective	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2005
Salahudin Clark	Detective	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2006
Shawn Wilkinson	Detective	Black male	Unknown male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2012
Joseph Hayward	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brian Mullen	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
Theodore Lauterborn	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Kevin Paynter	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Eric Downes	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
Namel Holguin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Eric Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Jerry Wolvers	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jacob Newman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2011
Kwame Kipp	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Keith Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2010
Timothy Kraft	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2009
Ray Dutton	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2017
Luis Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jennifer Mugford	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Cecilio Ramos	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Crain	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mark Offenbacher	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ramiro Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2008
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2009
Thomas Geberth	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2016
Carlos Nieves	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2010
Timothy Kraft	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Johanna Vega	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ezequiel Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christophe Alvarado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2011
Thornton Booker	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Lauren Au	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2012
Francesco Cusimano	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2015
Ray Dutton	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
Vito Nicoletta	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jonathan Correa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Christophe Eastmond	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Jaime Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
David Caro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Matthew Cahill	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Cecilio Ramos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Darrell Lowe	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2014
Declan Ludington	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mark Vazquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2005
Richard Blasetti	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
David Afanador	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2009
Shaun Grossweiler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Alex Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Nicholas Ruiz	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Joseph Tarlentino	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Straniere	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2004
Tyrone Seely	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2016
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2011
Julio Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Richard Tarver	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006
Francisco Adames	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2008
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jensen Dayle	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Justin Caballero	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jon Derise	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2012
Avidan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Willy Yankovich	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Willy Yankovich	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2007
Justin Farren	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Scott Samarisi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frank Lupo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Zachery Zinaman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Zachery Zinaman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Heriberto Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Lawrice Crawford	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Yoosup Shim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Tracey Duncan	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Kevin Houst	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christian Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Bravo Zayas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2014
Wilson Verdesoto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Anthony Andino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
Juan Pichardo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ralph Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Ralph Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2006
Victor Rosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2011
Denise Moroney	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2011
Daniel Young	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Brett Allen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	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.