Force: NONLETHAL RESTRAINING DEVICE - The NYPD Files

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Force: Nonlethal Restraining Device

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.

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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
Troy Peacock	Sergeant	Black male	Asian male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2019
Harvin Hart	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Roberto Suarez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Matthew Bases	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michael Alfieri	Sergeant	White male	White male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2014
Matthew Fried	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2015
Michael Langlois	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2013
Jesse Lance	Captain	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2016
John Volkan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2016
Arturo Muia	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2009
Troy Peacock	Sergeant	Black male	Asian male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2019
Vincent Calderone	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2016
John Ryan	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2016
Daniel Sarrubbo	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
Francisco Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2007
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
Timothy Cecchini	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Lazarou	Sergeant	White male	White male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jesus Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2017
Daniel Hachemeister	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Patrick Quigley	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2010
Lawrence Bettex	Sergeant	White male	White male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Janet Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2019
Pawel Wala	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Keith Wagenhauser	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Sean Turner	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2016
Dennis Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Dennis Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Donald Kipp	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2007
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2014
Theohari Koumniotes	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2016
Matthew Starrantino	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 18 years old	Exonerated	2014
Bryan Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2018
Robert Humann	Police Officer	White male	White female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2019
Troy Peacock	Sergeant	Black male	Asian male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2019
Timothy Harrington	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2008
Troy Peacock	Sergeant	Black male	Asian male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2019
Timothy Brown	Sergeant	White male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2009
Daryl Melhado	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2014
Melvin Moultrie	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2017
Melvin Moultrie	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2017
Melvin Moultrie	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2017
Michael Driscoll	Detective	White male	White male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2014
Troy Peacock	Sergeant	Black male	Asian male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2019
Joseph Fernandez	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joseph Durante	Sergeant	White male	White male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joseph Delre	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
Robert Durst	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Black male	Other Race female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Patrick Fyvie	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Patrick Fyvie	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Cory Benowitz	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Colin Austin	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Julia Goldberg	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
Benjamin Gottlieb	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
James Titus	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Robert Humann	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Edward Silvester	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Dennis Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Brian Latva	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Brian Latva	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Brian Latva	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Yefersson Salasmartinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Robert Delaney	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Andrew Nguyen	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Luis Machado	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Pawel Wala	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Joseph Fernandez	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Davon Alston	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Robert King	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Robert King	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Alexander Wancel	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Martin Gimenez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Andrew Nguyen	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Scott Hamburger	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018

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.