Force: PEPPER SPRAY - The NYPD Files

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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
Jaime Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2011
Edwin Soto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jacobo Garay	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jonathan Hom	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2011
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2011
Konrad Zakiewicz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2011
Matthew Palmieri	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2011
Jon Derise	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2012
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2012
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2012
Brian Alexander	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rob Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2012
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Lipetri	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Burpoe	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2012
Clement Krug	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2012
Joseph Hayward	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2012
Johnny Orellana	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Livingston	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Berkley Vantull	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2012
Bobby Glover	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2012
Kenny Valladares	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2012
Matthew Zito	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2012
Gerson Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2012
Christophe Furda	Police Officer	Asian male	Unknown male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2012
Derrick Mcintosh	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2012
Scott Berger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2013
Zul Chowdhury	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2013
Burt Antoine	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2013
James Lee	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Doyle	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2013
Gerald Stlouis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2013
Joseph Matzinger	Captain	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Sergio Delamota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2013
Harish Mansharamani	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2013
Steven Malone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2013
Eric Stclair	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2013
Byran Pitts	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Fitzgibbon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2013
Alexis Aguirre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2013
Dane Stcyr	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2013
Jared Hospedales	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Beckett	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2013
Anthony Ricciardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Steven Weiss	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2013
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2014
Edwin Villanueva	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2014
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Thomas Ramirez	Detective	Hispanic male	White female, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Evans Mazile	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Ashford	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 12 years old	Exonerated	2014
Thomas Ramirez	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2014
Thomas Ramirez	Detective	Hispanic male	White female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jordan Lomba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Eduardo Perezromero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2014
John Zorrilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2014
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Benvenuto	Police Officer	White male	White male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2014
Avidan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2014
Nelson Nin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2014
James Lagaris	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2014
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Tatiana Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Other Race male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Jaspreet Gill	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
James Mccullough	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joel Crooms	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 67 years old	Exonerated	2015
Kappa Farid	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 67 years old	Exonerated	2015
Hector Vargas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2015
Stephen Loffredo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2015
Derrick Kreckmann	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jean Francisco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Matthew Dias	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Matthew Lombardo	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mobeen Yasin	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2015
Beatrice Shafidiya	Sergeant	Black female	Black female, 44 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2015
Ray Dutton	Police Officer	White male	White female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2015
Brian Kovarik	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Zorrilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Timothy Kraft	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Stephen Loffredo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2016
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2016
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male	Exonerated	2016
Robert King	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2016
Manuel Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brian Coffey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joseph Foss	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Herman Lai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Evan Mele	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Mohammed Rios	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Leonardo Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2017

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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.