Upon seeing pit bull inside the home on a call, Perrone shot and killed the dog through the open front door from his position on the porch.

Outcome

Lawsuit settled

Officers armed with guns and a no-knock search warrant raided the wrong home of Maisha Drayton, then a senior director of staff development at the Evergreen Association, a nonprofit health care organization.

Police left all the doors open when they departed, Maisha Drayton testified. Snow from boots were on the floor throughout the house. The warrant left by officers was full of misspelled words, along with the name of a suspected drug dealer Drayton and her kids had never heard before.

Detectives had obtained the search warrant for the home based on the word of an informant facing unspecified criminal charges. The informant told City Court Judge Amy Martoche, who signed the warrant, that she was hoping to “work off some of the charges” when she told police that a man named George lived at the house and had crack stashed inside.

Officers during depositions said they watched the house at least twice before serving the warrant but didn’t see Tariq, then 10, or his brother Xavier, then 16, go to school each morning, nor did they see Maisha Drayton or her husband, who worked as a graphic designer at the Buffalo News, go to work each day and come home each night.

They also didn’t see George, the suspected crack dealer, but that wasn’t cause for concern, police testified during proceedings in the lawsuit. They believed the house was used to stash drugs, not as a point of sale, and so the lack of visible drug activity wasn’t considered unusual for a suspected drug dealer.

The Draytons owned the home where they’d lived for seven years, and police knew it. They also knew that utilities were in Maisha Drayton’s name. That, too, didn’t cause police to question whether the informant had told the truth about George living there.

In seeking a search warrant, Detective Earl Perrin told Judge Martoche that he knew about George and the house before the informant told police that the Drayton home contained cocaine. He asked that the warrant be no-knock because people inside the house had guns. Kirkham wrote that Mayhook wasn’t candid when he told the judge, without corroborating the informant’s information, that the house was used to stash crack sold elsewhere.

“This statement among other representations made to the court at the in-camera hearing for the search warrant constitutes material misrepresentations of the facts that led to a finding of probable cause [to search the house],” Kirkham wrote.

Officers involved in the raid admitted no mistakes during depositions.

Outcome

Due to the raid, Maisha Drayton, who was in underwear when police rousted her from bed, suffers from post-traumatic stress syndrome and has experienced panic attacks and vertigo as well as migraine headaches, her lawyers say. Xavier suffered sprained wrists from being handcuffed, injuries to his arms and shoulders and has also experienced emotional injuries, according to the lawsuit. Tariq, who visited a therapist, suffered emotional injuries and has had nightmares, according to the family’s attorneys.

The Buffalo Common Council settled the Draytons’ lawsuit against police for $255,000.

Buffalo police officer confronted Devon Ford on Chippewa Street slammed him onto a car, took him to the ground and then hit him six times with a nightstick.

"I just remember being on my back, saying 'I didn't do anything, I didn't do anything," Ford told a federal court jury.

Outcome

Krug was temporarily suspended. A jury found Buffalo Police Officer Krug not guilty of two counts of deprivation of constitutional rights in the November 2014 use-of-force case.

According to D&C officer was involved in a shootout with no injuries.

Outcome

None found

According to Davy V’s blog, a total of 5 Rochester Police cruisers had pulled over an African-American motorist. When asked for his badge number and more information, Officer Mooney replied: "I'm doing my job, get out of my way!”

Outcome

None

According to Davy V., several RPD officers (including Matthew Klinkman) surrounded a black man who was pumping gasoline. They claimed he matched the description of someone they were searching for, but then left. Davy V. asked Officer Klinkman why he questioned the man, and Klinkman got into his police car and left.

Officer Van Dyke shot Laquan McDonald (17 years old) 16 times, killing him. McDonald was walking away from the officer at the time.

According to discipline database, on October 10 2014, Jimenez allegedly was involved in a third avoidable fleet incident within a year's time. Jimenez allegedly followed another fleet vehicle too closely and struck the rear of the other fleet vehicle. The accident caused $1612.16 of damage.

Outcome

Reprimand

Court case: Man alleged that various Rochester Police Department ("RPD") officers used excessive and unlawful force against him, falsely arrested him, and subsequently fabricated official police paperwork and committed perjury in an attempt to cover-up this wrongdoing. Officer Boskat was named in this court case that was connected to another incident the Plaintiff was involved on date above . The focus of the incident on 9/18/14 was on Officer Masic ( investigate him !!) Defendent

Outcome

none

According to the Davy V. Blog, Officer Allen was tailgating an individual who eventually pulled over to let the RPD vehicle pass. Officer Allen pulled up next to the individual and asked why they had pulled over; the individual asked Officer Allen for her badge number, but she refused, saying it was "none of your business."

In September 2014, Hassett and his partner, John Beyer, apprehended 26-year-old Keith Worthy at a gas station at the corner of South Park Avenue and Louisiana Street. The officers then took Worthy and his car into the nearby Commodore Perry housing projects, according to sources who have viewed the investigations that followed.

The officers charged Worthy with trespassing on public housing property, according to the incident report. They also charged Worthy with leaving his car — which had been at a gas pump before they arrested him and moved it — unattended and blocking a roadway.

Outcome

All the charges against Worthy eventually were dropped.

The Internal Affairs investigation into the incident took four years to resolve. The finding: The complaint was “not sustained.” Neither officer was punished.

According to a complaint and lawsuit filed, RPD Officer Donald M. Flood, together with Officers Michael Feldman and Evan Henry, pulled over a civilian, handcuffed him, and then beat him. The man "sustained several injuries during the beating, including a concussion, permanent blindness in his right eye, orbital fractures, diminished vision in his left eye, and multiple bruises."

Outcome

The City of Rochester paid the victim $750,000, which was only revealed later through an open records request

On July 29 2014, Buffalo Narcotics officers and the SWAT team stormed a West Seneca residence on Edson Street at 6 am in the morning. The residents were sleeping with their house-dog, a nine month old pit-bull puppy named Rocky, who was beloved both in the house and within the community. Rocky had been trained and loved from the time of his birth, was very well socialized, and did not have a mean bone in his body.

In fact, medical records show that despite the officers frightening method of entry into the residence, all Rocky did was stretch his legs at the foot of Joseph Smith, one of his owners' bed. Photos, police reports, and medical records show that two narcotics officers Detectives Joseph Smith and Shawn Adams shot Rocky numerous times with multiple firearms from over 10 feet away as the innocent dog stretched on Smith's bed.

Outcome

The police found a small amount of drug residue and marijuana in the cubbies of a bedroom and charged Joseph Smith, whose dog was blown up at his feet. Smith’s attorney, after a long legal battle, was able to get the charges against his client dismissed. Despite the thousands of dollars that have gone into this worthless prosecution, the DA doubled downed to protect the dog killers and refilled the charges against Smith

According to video from DavyV Officer was parked, in traffic lane, impeding vehicle traffic

Outcome

none

An individual brought a false arrest and excessive force lawsuit against Goodfriend. According to the court documents Goodfriend pursued the individual into his house without a warrant and they punched him and kneed him.

Outcome

Goodfriend's motion for summary judgement to dismiss excessive force was denied.

Air National Guardsman William C. Sager Jr. was gravely injured when he was pushed down a flight of stairs by Molly's Pub bar manager Jeffrey Basil. When the incident happened at Molly's, two off-duty Buffalo Police officers were there -- Adam O'Shei and Robert Eloff. Officer Eloff helped drag the unconscious Sager out of the bar after the push and handcuffed him at Basil’s request. After spending weeks in a coma at the hospital, Sager died. He was 28.

Outcome

Officer O'Shei was suspended for his involvement in the Molly's Pub incident that led to the death of a national guardsman but did not be face any charges. Eloff pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of Donald Hall, a friend of Sager. He resigned from the force as part of the plea. Eloff was sentenced to three months in federal prison and three months of home confinement in 2016 in connection to the incident.

CW: On the night of April 19th, when John Willet, a 22 year old Black man, was driving, he noticed a car was following him. Fearing that it may be someone meaning to do him harm, he sped away. The car following him turned out to be undercover police car, which pursued Willet to Ontario and Philadelphia Streets. Willet parked his vehicle, got out and ran across the street where he willingly surrendered. Willet reported that he stood there with his hands in the air when a Buffalo Police Officer punched him and threw him down to the ground. Buffalo Police Officer John Cirulli and Nicholas Militello along with four other officers kneed and punched Willet while trying to apprehend him. John Cirulli kicked and punched Willet while he was handcuffed and laying face down, pleading for them to stop.

Outcome

On April 28, 2014, officers were placed on administrative leave. On April 29, 2014, BPD suspended John Cirulli from duty without pay for violating departmental rules and regulations. On May 29, 2014, he resigned his position with the Buffalo Police Department and pleaded guilty to two federal misdemeanor civil rights violations. He was sentenced to 12 months probation.

On April 15, 2015, Willet filed a lawsuit against him, Militello, the Buffalo Police Department, the city of Buffalo, Jeffrey Rinaldo and another defendant. Judge Richard J. Arcara dismissed the case.

"Officer stopped and frisked a person known to the department without sufficient legal authority."

New African American recruit was reprimanded/suspended for 20 days for asking for fries at Arby's without paying for them, for violating . He alleged that the day before at Perri's Pizza he was told by his training officer that they never have to pay there.

Outcome

20 day suspension

Police officers Corey Krug and Joseph Hassett assaulted and detained Rickey Spencer for a violation of NYS V&T Law 1236 Lamps and Other Equipment on Bicycles in that he did not have a light or reflector on his bicycle. Spencer required surgery on his arm due to the assault.