Conclusion Meanings:
'Exonerated': or 'Within NYPD Guidelines' - the alleged conduct occurred but did not violate the NYPD's own rules, which often give officers significant discretion.
'Unsubstantiated': or 'Unable to Determine' - CCRB has fully investigated but could not affirmatively conclude both that the conduct occurred and that it broke the rules.
Further details on conclusion definitions.
Named in 2 known lawsuits.
Rodriguez, Ramon vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 027056/2018,
Supreme Court - Bronx, July 26, 2018
Complaint
Description: On July 3, 2016, Plaintiff Ramon Rodriguez was in a taxi with three others when the taxi was pulled over by Police Officer James Tobin and three other unnamed officers. The officers approached the taxi with guns drawn, and pulled Plaintiff Rodriguez out of the car. HE was then searched intimately in public, including touching his private organs and his buttocks. A different occupant of the vehicle was searched and the police officers found a bag of marijuana. Instead of charging that passenger, the police officers chose to charge Plaintiff Rodriguez with possession of marijuana. They handcuffed Plaintiff Rodriguez and placed him in the back of the squad car, and Officer James Tobin called Plaintiff a “piece of ...
Polanco, Nathan vs City of New York, et al.
Case # 020010/2018E,
Supreme Court - Bronx, January 8, 2018