Force: OTHER BLUNT INSTRUMENT AS A CLUB - The NYPD Files

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Force: Other Blunt Instrument As A Club

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
Matthew Vahey	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Angel Arroyo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Andrew Bershad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Peter Duke	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2004
Brian Farrelly	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Mchenry	Police Officer	White male	White male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Justin Caballero	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Felix Gross	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Darrel Oneill	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2006
Todd Craven	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Javier Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Eloy Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Delduca	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Steven Weiss	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Rashan Lacoste	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Rafael Perdomo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Levon Holley	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Matthew Fried	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Alexandros Kalogiros	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Matthew Fried	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Eastmond	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Keith Beddows	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jaime Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Victor Rosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Owen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Dennis Friendly	Detective	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jared Tepperman	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Castronova	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ali Cheikhali	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Castaldo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Lipari	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Umar Khitab	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Louis Dambrosio	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Fitzgibbon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2013
Tatiana Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Other Race male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alexis Dejesus	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Andrew Lindsay	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Seth Lynch	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Richard Danese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Latoya Paradise	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
James White	Detective	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Castro	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Daniel Manetta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017

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.