Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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Larry Meyers
Lieutenant, 79th Precinct
White male
These are the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s findings regarding this NYPD officer. This page only includes allegations against this person for which the CCRB has completed its investigation. A complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.
Units served in
79th Precinct, 71st Precinct, Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, Patrol Borough Brooklyn North TF
Total Complaints
17
Total Allegations
32
Substantiated Allegations
2

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.

Complaint received in June 2019

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Entry Of Premises Hispanic female, 42 years old Lieutenant Exonerated
Abuse of Authority: Forcible Removal To Hospital Hispanic female, 42 years old Lieutenant Exonerated

Complaint received in December 2018

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Not available Lieutenant Unsubstantiated
Offensive Language: Race Black male, 50 years old Lieutenant Unsubstantiated
Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint Black male, 50 years old Lieutenant Unsubstantiated
Abuse of Authority: Failure To Provide Rtka Card Black male, 50 years old Lieutenant Unsubstantiated
Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name Black male, 50 years old Lieutenant Unsubstantiated
Abuse of Authority: Failure To Provide Rtka Card Black male, 50 years old Lieutenant Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)

Complaint received in March 2018

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Force: Physical Force Black female, 31 years old Sergeant Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in April 2017

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Discourtesy: Word Black male, 19 years old Sergeant Unsubstantiated
Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Black male, 19 years old Sergeant Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in November 2015

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Summons Black male, 40 years old Sergeant Unsubstantiated
Discourtesy: Word Black male, 40 years old Sergeant Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in October 2015

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Offensive Language: Ethnicity Black male, 49 years old Sergeant Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in May 2015

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Force: Physical Force Black male, 22 years old Sergeant Exonerated
Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search Black male, 22 years old Sergeant Exonerated

Complaint received in April 2014

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) Black male, 24 years old Sergeant Exonerated

Complaint received in January 2014

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched Black male, 24 years old Sergeant Exonerated

Complaint received in August 2013

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Discourtesy: Word Black male, 39 years old Sergeant Unsubstantiated
Abuse of Authority: Question Black male, 39 years old Sergeant Exonerated
Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Black male, 39 years old Sergeant Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in May 2013

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) Black male, 40 years old Sergeant Unsubstantiated
Force: Physical Force Black male, 40 years old Sergeant Exonerated

Complaint received in May 2011

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Discourtesy: Word Black male Police Officer Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in March 2011

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Frisk Black male, 28 years old Police Officer Exonerated
Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Black male, 28 years old Police Officer Exonerated

Complaint received in January 2011

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched Black male, 32 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in December 2009

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched Black male, 23 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in January 2009

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged Black male, 65 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated
Abuse of Authority: Question Black male, 65 years old Police Officer Exonerated

Complaint received in October 2006

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop Black male, 43 years old Police Officer Exonerated
Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Black male, 43 years old Police Officer Substantiated (Charges)
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.
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