40th Precinct - The NYPD Files

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40th Precinct

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.

Officers with Complaints

Complaints

163

Allegations

477

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
Genti Bektashaj	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Christophe Schmidt	Sergeant	Offensive Language: Race	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Christophe Schmidt	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Christophe Schmidt	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2003
Christophe Schmidt	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Other	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2003
John Ferrara	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Ferrara	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Brian Ramirez	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 60 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
John Ferrara	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Kevon Sample	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Word	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	Hispanic male	White male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2001
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2003
Brian Ramirez	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2016
Brian Ramirez	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Arrest	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Brian Ramirez	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched	Black male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Raymond Ip	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Raymond Ip	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched	Asian male	Not available	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2003
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Stop	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2008
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2008
Joseph Tompkins	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Joseph Tompkins	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Pawel Lachowski	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Pawel Lachowski	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Unknown female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2015
Christophe Schmidt	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Angel Dejesus	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Forcible Removal To Hospital	Hispanic male	Refused male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2019
Angel Dejesus	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
John Ferrara	Sergeant	Offensive Language: Race	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Ferrara	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Other	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
John Ferrara	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Action	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
John Ferrara	Sergeant	Offensive Language: Other	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Cesar Gomez	Sergeant	Force: Other	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Cesar Gomez	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Cesar Gomez	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Timothy Jaycox	Sergeant	Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton)	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Timothy Jaycox	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Cesar Gomez	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2017
Kevon Sample	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Action	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kevon Sample	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kevon Sample	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2007
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Popovic	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2007
Jose Briceno	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Seth Lynch	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2009
Seth Lynch	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Seth Lynch	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Popovic	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	White male	Hispanic , 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Asian , 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	White male	Asian , 26 years old	Exonerated	2010
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment	Hispanic male	Black female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Show Search Warrant	Hispanic male	Black female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Stop	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Seth Lynch	Sergeant	Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton)	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2009
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property	Black male	Not available female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Stop	Black male	Black male, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Peter Curran	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Other	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Peter Curran	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Peter Curran	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Stop	Black male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	Black male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	Black male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
John Ferrara	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Robert Mainor	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Robert Mainor	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Robert Mainor	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Stop	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010

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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.