Force: PEPPER SPRAY - The NYPD Files

Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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Force: Pepper Spray

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

266

Complaints

297

Allegations

324

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
Justin Ellis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2010
Justin Ellis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2010
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2011
Herman Lai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2005
Edwin Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jalal Ali	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Jalal Ali	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Mike Suarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2018
Joseph Cordones	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2009
Anthony Ricciardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Victor Lara	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2003
Darren King	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2003
Darren King	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2010
Matthew Dias	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2011
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Christophe Schmidt	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Ashford	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 12 years old	Exonerated	2014
Beatrice Shafidiya	Sergeant	Black female	Black female, 44 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Wilson Alba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2007
Wilson Alba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Richard Lavelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2005
Manuel Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Edwin Soto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2011
Clement Krug	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2012
Bernard Corso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2011
Anthony Davila	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 17 years old	Exonerated	2008
Anthony Davila	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 17 years old	Exonerated	2009
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2008
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Anthony Romero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
Andrew Valenzano	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ramon Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 14 years old	Exonerated	2010
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2014
Derrick Mcintosh	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jason Brunson	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2009
Douglas Carr	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2004
Christophe Salamone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Eric Delman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2001
Brian Alexander	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Steven Weiss	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2013
Ted Saintgerard	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mohammed Rios	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Ryan Scannell	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2010
Thomas Loomis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Keith Dsouza	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2009
Michael Scoloveno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Carlos Lozada	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jesse Trap	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 16 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Davis Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2011
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2011
Joseph Foss	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Christophe Winiarz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Anthony Gulotta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
Brian Coffey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2016
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jason Forgione	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2005
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2007
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Justin Dengler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2002
Pete Massa	Police Officer	White male	Black female	Exonerated	1999
Kappa Farid	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Scott Berger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2013
Kenneth Oconnor	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2001
Joel Crooms	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 67 years old	Exonerated	2015
Thomas Napolitano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008
Julian Coston	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Christophe Devaney	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2003
Christophe Devaney	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2003
John Roberts	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2003
Yasmin Hicks	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Joel Roman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2012
Michael Doyle	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Lipetri	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Alleva	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ralph Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Victor Rosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	1999
Christophe Owen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2009
Emile Provencher	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2005
Raymond Abreu	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2005
John Livingston	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Finbarr Fleming	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2001
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
Daryl Melhado	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Gerald Stlouis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	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.