Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

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
Troy Patterson Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1988
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1989
Bryan Mcnulty Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1994
Keith Bryan Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 1995
Anthony Ronda Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 1995
Miltiadis Marmara Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1996
Thomas Cerbone Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Aubrey Henry Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 1997
Joyce Williams Police Officer Black female Not available Exonerated 2001
Ischaler Grant Sergeant Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2001
Christophe Cooke Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2001
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Not available Exonerated 2001
Thomas White Sergeant White male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Joseph Brunetti Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2002
David Demelia Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2002
Scott Henderson Sergeant Black male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2002
Joey Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2002
Benjamin Gottlieb Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Joseph Dipreta Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2002
Raymond Festino Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Eric Shanley Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Brian Depalo Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2003
Anthony Demonte Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2003
Kenneth Aube Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2003
Joseph Franco Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2003
Michael Lennihan Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2003
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Jean Louis Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2004
Stanley Macnear Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Frank Galati Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2004
Dominick Nasso Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2004
John Todaro Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Peter Duke Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Vincent Fontana Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2004
Michael Lopuzzo Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2004
Edmund Rumman Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Gregory Bell Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Brendan Owens Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Robert Henderson Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Abel Perez Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Justin Farren Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Ohmeed Davodian Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Jerome Teahan Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Mourad Mourad Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2006
Marco Balboni Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Joseph Lessard Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Emilio Aponte Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2006
Sean Downes Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Duane Atkinson Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Albert Jackson Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2006
Juan Lopez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
John Fogelman Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Michael Balicki Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Jason Deonarinesingh Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Jason Deonarinesingh Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Franklyn Sepulveda Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2006
John Chavatte Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Troy Luis Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Nela Gomez Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2006
Mack Lipinski Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Elvin Gomez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Ronald Luparello Detective White male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2007
James Lee Police Officer Asian male Not available Exonerated 2007
Trevor Baronette Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2007
Glenda Wajer Detective Hispanic female Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Eric Beckel Sergeant White male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2007
Louis Dambrosio Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Eric Samuels Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2008
William Falcone Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Derek Sambolin Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Jonauld Guest Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 40 years old Exonerated 2008
Terrell Anderson Sergeant Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Justin Cracchiola Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Ricardo Bocachica Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
Tarakur Chowdhury Police Officer Asian male Not available Exonerated 2009
Julio Delgado Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
William Sommer Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Nathan Mole Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2009
Robert Clark Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2009
Elvis Cole Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Maria Bocachica Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2009
Erik Rubinstein Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Rolando Carbonell Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
Willie Johnson Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2009
Radoslaw Terepka Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Steven Weiss Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Joseph Albertini Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Robert Barnett Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Liam Swords Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Jose Dejesus Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2010
Matthew Zito Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Clifton Clarke Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2010
Steve Lafortune Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2010
John Tancredi Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Stephen Jones Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2010
Lamont Gibson Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2010
Juan Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2010
Humberto Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2010
Milton Sanchez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2010
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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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