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Abuse of Authority: Other
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
400
Complaints
373
Allegations
461
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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Isabelo Adames | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Peter Ahn | Sergeant | Asian male | Asian female, 63 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Franklyn Aizaga | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 44 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2006 |
John Albertelli | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Michael Algerio | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
Christophe Alikhan | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 60 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
Derek Almeida | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Numael Amador | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Alena Aminova | Police Officer | White female | White male, 58 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Alena Aminova | Police Officer | White female | Black male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Angel Andujar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 49 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Emilio Aponte | Police Officer | Black male | Black male | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Rafael Aquino | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Rafael Aquino | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Paul Arico | Police Officer | White male | White female, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Karla Arvayo | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Colin Austin | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Gabriel Baaith | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race female, 67 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Daniel Baca | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Robert Backiel | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Angel Badillo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black female, 65 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Michael Balicki | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jason Barish | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 57 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Anton Bartoldus | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Matthew Bases | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic female, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 1999 |
Christophe Bastos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2019 |
Joseph Bell | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 1999 |
Richard Bergin | Lieutenant | White male | Unknown male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Andrew Bershad | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Ricardo Bocachica | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Ricardo Bocachica | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Ricardo Bocachica | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Maria Bocachica | Detective | Hispanic female | Black female, 73 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Ronald Bolte | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Ronald Bolte | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Anthony Borelli | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2003 |
Kevin Breen | Lieutenant | White male | Black female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Mark Brinadze | Police Officer | White male | White female, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Damion Brown | Sergeant | Black male | Black female, 48 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
Damion Brown | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
Jeffrey Brown | Police Officer | Black male | White female | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
Jeffrey Brown | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
Jeffrey Brown | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
Damion Brown | Sergeant | Black male | Black female, 14 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
Francis Bryant | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
William Buchanan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
Matthew Buonaspina | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Dennis Burgos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Gregory Burns | Police Officer | White male | White male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Mauvin Bute | Lieutenant | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Michele Butera | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 53 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Justin Caballero | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Matthew Cahill | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Tulio Camejo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Arsenio Camilo | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Dean Campbell | Detective | Black male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
Dean Campbell | Detective | Black male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
Thomas Cancilla | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Thomas Cancilla | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Juan Candelario | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
Frank Cannone | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Gary Capellan | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Jesus Capo | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Darren Caranella | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Rolando Carbonell | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Armando Cardenio | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
John Carnevale | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 14 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Michael Carrieri | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Joseph Castaldo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Matthew Caulfield | Police Officer | White male | White male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Christophe Cesarz | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1998 |
Kristo Cevi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Johnny Chalen | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Keith Chatterton | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 55 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Alan Chau | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
Patrick Cherry | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Paul Chierico | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Eugene Choi | Police Officer | Asian male | White female, 67 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Ralph Cilento | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Anthony Cimmino | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jason Cira | Detective | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Robert Clark | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Elvis Cole | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Angel Colon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Felix Concepcion | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Felix Concepcion | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Adam Conlin | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
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.