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Abuse of Authority: Gun Drawn
This page contains all allegations assigned to this category by the CCRB. Multiple similar allegations can appear for the same officer because a complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.
Officers With Complaints
172
Complaints
159
Allegations
182
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 | Officer Details | Complainant Details | CCRB Conclusion | Year Received |
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Piero Lasaponara | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Edmund Rumman | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Kevin Nicoll | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
Joseph Foss | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Dominick Nasso | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Michael Riso | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
William Falcone | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Sean Turner | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Brendan Owens | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Michael Gargano | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Adam Dumelle | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Marco Balboni | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Raymond Tomins | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Frank Ventura | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
Paul Viar | Detective | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Vincent Fontana | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Joseph Viggiano | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Kenneth Aube | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
John Baumeister | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Joel Polichron | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Michael Weber | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Joseph Brunetti | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
Eric Beckel | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
John Baumeister | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Elvis Cole | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
David Demelia | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
Tyler Angelo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Guy Gargano | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 11 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Mack Lipinski | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Brian Mahon | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Anthony Donato | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Ronald Luparello | Detective | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
John Tancredi | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Gregory Bell | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Daniel Sitruk | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Radoslaw Terepka | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Forrest Hirsch | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Kevin Kenny | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
James Gilson | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Darren Caranella | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Steve Crozier | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Benjamin Gottlieb | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
Michael Bowman | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Michael Lopuzzo | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Jason Jansky | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Michael Balicki | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Craig Basler | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Robert Belle | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Michael Dicecco | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Sean Downes | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Michael Smith | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Jerome Teahan | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
John Todaro | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
Christophe Schiro | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Joseph Albertini | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Eric Shanley | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
John Fogelman | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Robert Barnett | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Christophe Cooke | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2001 |
Michael Lennihan | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
William Sommer | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2009 |
Joseph Tallarine | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1989 |
Miltiadis Marmara | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1996 |
Bryan Mcnulty | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1994 |
Brian Depalo | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
David Sammarco | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Liam Swords | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Justin Cracchiola | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Christophe Dukes | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Robert Henderson | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Justin Farren | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Erik Rubinstein | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2009 |
Stephen Schoefer | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Louis Dambrosio | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Louis Dambrosio | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
Matthew Zito | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Frank Galati | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Robert Henderson | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Stanley Macnear | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
Ohmeed Davodian | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Gary Messina | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
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.