{"active":false,"first_name":"Ramu","last_name":"Hiller","race":"Asian","gender":"Male","rank":"DT3","command":{"command":"PSA 6 VIPER","assignment_date":"2022-03-22","id":"882"},"shield_no":362,"ended_date":"2022-12-05","taxid":"926956","complaint_ids":[202104432,201909786,201603171,201115080,201103695,200908839,200815495,200710559,200606342,200514327,200505741,200203907,200202328],"command_history":[{"command":"046 PCT","id":"46pct"},{"command":"NARCBMN","id":"250"},{"command":"010 DET","id":"10det"},{"command":"025 DET","id":"25det"}],"appt_date":"2000-09-29","age":51,"middle_initial":"N","shield_no_history":[1484],"lawsuits":[{"name":"Ferguson, Norman W. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-08-28","disposition_date":"2023-03-02","payout_amount":150000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"158293/2019","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Hiller, Ramu N.","summary":"On January 5, 2017, while driving on Water Street in New York City, Carlvin Johnson was stopped by NYPD Officer Adam Keegan without any lawful justification. The officer arrested him based on unfounded allegations, subjecting Johnson to physical and psychological abuse during the encounter. He was handcuffed with excessive tightness, causing him significant discomfort. Johnson was held in custody for nearly 48 hours before the District Attorney decided not to proceed with the charges. His lawsuit claims multiple violations of his civil rights, including false arrest, excessive force, and negligence by the City of New York regarding the officer’s conduct.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=y19e1rSZ6ijuy8JLKSde5w==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Mccray, Aaron, et al. vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-05-03","disposition_date":"2020-08-11","payout_amount":32500,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"025171/2019","court":"Supreme Court - Bronx","officer_name":"Hiller, Ramu N.","summary":"On October 5, 2016, plaintiff McCray went to the grocery store one block from his residence, where he lives with his mother, plaintiff Clark. On his way back home, plaintiff McCray was approached by defendant officer and confronted about money and drugs. Plaintiff McCray did not know what defendant officer was talking about. Defendant officers then grabbed plaintiff and threw him against a wall. Plaintiff McCray called out to plaintiff Clark, and defendant officers pointed a gun to plaintiff Clark and held plaintiff McCray. Plaintiff McCray was arrested, and dragged to a nearby hub where he was strip-searched.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=D3rf4I8R_PLUS_PBsZvKsBrxJkg==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Brown, Scott vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2019-02-06","disposition_date":"2019-05-30","payout_amount":10000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"151058/2019","court":"Supreme Court - New York","officer_name":"Hiller, Ramu N.","summary":"On February 5, 2016, plaintiff was stopped on the street and unlawfully searched without probable cause. Despite the search yielding no contraband, plaintiff was arrested and brought to the precinct. Plaintiff was falsely charged with committing crimes including the sale of narcotics. All charges were ultimately dismissed.","documents":[{"url":"https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=I45L4/RjTbKo76a4tQngug==","type":"complaint"}]},{"name":"Mcilwain, Tarell vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2016-05-04","disposition_date":"2020-01-14","payout_amount":260000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"16CV03133","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Hiller, Ramu N.","summary":"Plaintiff and his brother were stopped on the street and arrested by Defendant officers. Plaintiff was taken to a local precinct, strip-searched, and charged with Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree, of which he was later acquitted.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.456788.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4357010/mcilwain-v-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Almanzar, Abraham vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2014-05-05","disposition_date":"2014-10-31","payout_amount":15000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"14CV03090","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Hiller, Ramu N.","summary":"On March 4, 2013, Plaintiff was in his car after dropping his child off from school, waiting for a parking spot to open, when an undercover police officer approached.  The undercover officer, along with Defendant Detective Hamu Hiller, Arlene Conway, Leonid Pysin and Darrel O’Neill, threw Plaintiff to the ground, cuffed him and illegally searched him and his car.  Plaintiff was held in a police van for six hours while unrelated arrests were made, then taken to the 25th Precinct where he was strip searched.  After sleeping on the concrete floor of a holding cell, Plaintiff was arraigned the following day on misdemeanor drug possession charges, despite no drugs being found on him or in his car.  After making multiple court appearances, the charges were dismissed on motion on November 12, 2013.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920154-Almanzar-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"},{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.426522.19.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4920155-Almanzar-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4353588/almanzar-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Griffin, Anthony vs City of New York, et al.","start_date":"2013-05-07","disposition_date":"2014-03-10","payout_amount":130000,"disposition":"Settlement","docket":"13CV02773","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","officer_name":"Hiller, Ramu N.","summary":"On December 20, 2011, Anthony Griffin was arrested under allegations of drug sales in Manhattan, leading to a series of legal and procedural missteps by law enforcement. Despite the claim that Griffin sold drugs to Ruth Bennette, evidence and timelines provided in court documents and surveillance footage contradicted these allegations. Griffin underwent a humiliating strip search, including a humiliating and degrading strip and visual body cavity search, in which he was forced against his will to take all his clothes off, squat, spread his buttocks and cough. Griffin was brought before a judged and arraigned on a felony complaint which charged him with Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in Third Degree, and Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substanced on or NEar School Ground. In the respective complaint, Detective HIller, who was designated as the arresting officer, stated that he was informed by an undercover detective that the latter observed Mr. Griffin and Xavier Jackson \"acting in concert, hand separately charged Ruth Bennette Crack cocaine in exchange for U.S. currency. \n\nOn information and belief, based on the New York District Attorney’s Voluntary Disclosure Form prepared by Assistant District Attorney Craig Ascher, and the questions asked of Mr. Griffin by ADA Ascher in the grand jury, Detective Hiller and/or other of the Individual Defendants told ADA Ascher that they observed Mr. Griffin selling drugs on West 114th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. Any such information implicating Mr. Griffin in the sale of drugs to Ms. Bennette was false. Griffin was arraigned and remained incarcerated until his release on January 18, 2012, with his case dismissed on December 18, 2012. Griffin neither posessed nor sold crack cocain or any other controlled substance on December 20, 2011.\n\nThe lawsuit alleges misconduct and false testimony by Detective Hiller and other officers involved, challenging the NYPD's strip search practices and the accuracy of their drug sale accusations.","documents":[{"url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.411073.1.0.pdf","type":"complaint"},{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919839-Griffin-v-The-City-Of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4352107/griffin-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"officer_name":"Hiller, Ramu N.","disposition":"Settlement","start_date":"2011-06-29","disposition_date":"2013-12-06","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","docket":"11CV04297","name":"Miyares, Stephanie vs City of New York, et al.","payout_amount":25000,"summary":"On March 25, 2010, at and in the vicinity of 562 Academy Street, Apartment H24, New York, New York 10034 (\"the apartment\"), the 25th and 34th Precincts, located in New York, New York and Manhattan Central Booking, several police officers operating from the Manhattan North Narcotics Bureau, including upon information and belief, defendants Det. Garcia, and P.O. John and Jane Does # 1-5, at times acting in concert and at times acting independently, committed the following illegal acts against the plaintiff. On March 25, 2010, at approximately 6:00 a.m., at and in the vicinity of 562 Academy Street, Apartment H24, New York, New York, plaintiff was an overnight guest in the apartment when, without consent, an arrest warrant, a lawful search warrant, probable cause, or reasonable suspicion that plaintiff (or any third person) had committed a crime, the defendants unlawfully entered the apartment by breaking through the door and drew their firearms at plaintiff and her eleven month old child. Once the defendant officers entered the apartment, plaintiff was not free to disregard their questions, or walk way or leave the scene. While inside the apartment, defendants, without consent, an arrest warrant, a lawful search warrant, probable cause, or reasonable suspicion to believe that plaintiff (or any third person) had committed a crime falsely arrested plaintiff. During the arrest of plaintiff, defendants committed excessive force against her, by maliciously, gratuitously, and unnecessarily pointing a firearm at her, grabbing plaintiff, and placing excessively tight handcuffs on plaintiff's wrists. Those defendants who did not touch plaintiff, witnessed these acts, but failed to intervene and protect plaintiff from this conduct.The individual defendant officers did not have an objective and/or reasonable basis to use any degree of force against plaintiff, since plaintiff was unarmed, compliant, and did not resist arrest. Plaintiff was physically injured as a result of the excessive use of force, and suffered numbness and marks to her wrists. Plaintiff asked the individual defendants to loosen the cuffs, but they did not. Plaintiff told the defendants that she was not a resident of the apartment but they ignored her and threatened to take her child to protective services if she did not inform them of criminal activity within the apartment.","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919330-Miyares-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/4349238/miyares-v-the-city-of-new-york/"},{"name":"Cappola v. City of New York et al","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","payout_amount":40000,"disposition":"Settlement","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919107-Cappola-v-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"10CV05165","officer_name":"Ramu N. Hiller"},{"name":"Manrique v. The City of New York et al","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","payout_amount":17500,"disposition":"Settlement","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919314-Manrique-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"11CV03984","officer_name":"Ramu N. Hiller"},{"name":"Jones v. The City of New York et al","court":"U.S. District Court - Southern District NY","payout_amount":35000,"disposition":"Settlement","documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4919382-Jones-v-The-City-of-New-York-et-al"}],"docket":"11CV05742","officer_name":"Ramu N. Hiller"}],"documents":[{"url":"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24441170-bronx-notified-officers-list-edited_redacted-redacted_redacted","type":"credibility-finding"}],"news":[{"url":"https://www.bxtimes.com/nypd-detective-arrested-for-punching-girlfriend/","title":"NYPD detective with history of complaints arrested for punching girlfriend","source":"Bronx Times","date":"2022-02-23"}],"id":"N67F","url":"https://www.50-a.org/officer/N67F"}