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
James Lee	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2013
Keith Dsouza	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2009
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2016
Herman Lai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Mobeen Yasin	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jonathan Hom	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Furda	Police Officer	Asian male	Unknown male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2012
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2013
Zul Chowdhury	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2013
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male	Exonerated	2016
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Jaspreet Gill	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Fitzroy Vigilance	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	1999
Darrin Smalls	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2009
Essence Jackson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 67 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joel Crooms	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 67 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Katia Jasmin	Detective	Black female	Unknown not described, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Evans Mazile	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Bobby Glover	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2012
Yasmin Hicks	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Colin Austin	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
Cedric Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2001
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Darren King	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2003
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Katia Jasmin	Detective	Black female	Not available female	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Bobby Glover	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Mikal Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Parks	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2007
Julian Coston	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Beatrice Shafidiya	Sergeant	Black female	Black female, 44 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Katia Jasmin	Detective	Black female	Black female, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Burt Antoine	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Katia Jasmin	Detective	Black female	Refused female, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Darren King	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2011
Lorenzo Jones	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 61 years old	Exonerated	2008
Ronald Hobson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2010
Derrick Mcintosh	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2012
Ted Saintgerard	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
Clyde Jasmin	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2010
Byran Pitts	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2013
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2012
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Avis Washington	Sergeant	Black female	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2014
Daryl Melhado	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Rob Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2012
Shante Terrell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2010
Melvin Moultrie	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2005
Colin Austin	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2002
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2014
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
David Terrell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2005
Anthony Lee	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2010
Berkley Vantull	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2012
Berkley Vantull	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2004
Douglas Carr	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2004
Gerald Stlouis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2013
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Antonio Santana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2008
Cesar Polanco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
Mervin Montalban	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2010
Hector Vargas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joey Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2002
Antonio Santana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2006
Joseph Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ramiro Ruiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jared Hospedales	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2011
Davis Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jose Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2011
Kenny Valladares	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2012
Evan Mele	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Alexis Aguirre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Fernando Centenotalavera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Antonio Santana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2008
Leonardo Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2017
Joel Roman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2006
Evan Mele	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Jordan Lomba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Evan Mele	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Eduardo Vite	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Evan Mele	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Andres Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2004
Evan Mele	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Ramiro Burgarelli	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Johnny Orellana	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jason Santana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2011
Kervelin Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2007
Nerys Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Ralph Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jaime Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2011

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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.