13th Precinct - The NYPD Files

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This page contains allegations that were filed against officers who were serving at this precinct or in this unit at the time an incident is alleged to have occured. 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	Allegation	Officer Details	Complainant Details	CCRB Conclusion	Year Received
Norman Grandstaff	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Norman Grandstaff	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Norman Grandstaff	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2003
Norman Grandstaff	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2003
Norman Grandstaff	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2003
Stuart Wohl	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2004
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 56 years old	Exonerated	2004
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Timothy Brown	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2005
Timothy Brown	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2005
Patrick Donnelly	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint	White male	Unknown male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Jason Valentino	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jason Valentino	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Patrick Donnelly	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Question	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Richard Romance	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Richard Romance	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Arthur Golfphin	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	Black male	Other Race male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2008
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2008
Arthur Golfphin	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons	Black male	Other Race male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jason Valentino	Police Officer	Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2008
Arthur Golfphin	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	Black male	Other Race male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Matthew Buonaspina	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2008
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Stop	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Michael Fox	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	White male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2009
Michael Fox	Police Officer	Offensive Language: Sexual Orientation	White male	White male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2009
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
John Dziedzic	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Matthew Buonaspina	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Matthew Buonaspina	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Matthew Buonaspina	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
John Dziedzic	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	White male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Matthew Buonaspina	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Matthew Buonaspina	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Other	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jason Valentino	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	White male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Arthur Golfphin	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Other	Black male	Black male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Lazarou	Sergeant	Force: Nonlethal Restraining Device	White male	White male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2015
Arthur Golfphin	Police Officer	Offensive Language: Ethnicity	Black male	Black male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Bekim Kalicovic	Lieutenant	Force: Physical Force	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Bekim Kalicovic	Lieutenant	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2016
Neils Veras	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Neils Veras	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Thomas Manning	Police Officer	Force: Vehicle	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2016
Neils Veras	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jocelyn Peralta	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Other	Hispanic female	Other Race female, 53 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Jocelyn Peralta	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged	Hispanic female	Other Race female, 53 years old	Exonerated	2017
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	Force: Restricted Breathing	White male	White male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	White male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2017
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	Force: Chokehold	White male	White male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Jocelyn Peralta	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched	Hispanic female	Not available	Exonerated	2017
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Arthur Golfphin	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons	Black male	Other Race male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Todd Craven	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Todd Craven	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	White male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Elena Stojanovski	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Forcible Removal To Hospital	Hispanic female	White male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019

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.