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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michele Herbst | Police Officer | White female | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
| Christophe Lawrence | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
| Michael Miller | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
| William Higgins | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
| Jose Rodriguez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
| Hector Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
| Charles Stewart | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
| Christophe Bastos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
| Douglas Schack | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
| Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
| Gary Messina | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
| Ronald Bolte | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
| Herve Francois | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
| Steven Rubin | Captain | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
| Paul Arico | Police Officer | White male | White female, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
| Rafael Iturralde | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
| Seth Lynch | Police Officer | White male | Unknown female | Exonerated | 2004 |
| Rolando Carbonell | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
| Jermaine Matos | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
| John Hopkins | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
| Willy Yankovich | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
| Joseph Stynes | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2004 |
| Latisha Wilder | Police Officer | Black female | White male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2004 |
| John Todaro | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
| Christophe Schmidt | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Richard Gadson | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 38 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Anthony Borelli | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2003 |
| Colin Austin | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
| Todd Postel | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 54 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Willie Johnson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Robert Clark | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Christophe Cunha | Sergeant | White male | White male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Christopher McCormack | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Christopher McCormack | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Michael Mchugh | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Joseph Delduca | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 39 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Elias Nikas | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 61 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
| Nicholas Ferraro | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
| David Powers | Detective | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
| Andrew Bershad | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Eric Shanley | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
| Phillip Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
| Norberto Tirado | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Angel Leon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
| Carlos Lewis | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
| William Buchanan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
| Hector Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Herbert Martin | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Robert Lotufo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2001 |
| William Simon | Police Officer | White male | White male, 52 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2001 |
| Ischaler Grant | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
| Eddie Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2001 |
| Thomas Oconnor | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
| James Eisert | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2000 |
| John Trotta | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2000 |
| Anthony Quagliariello | Detective | White male | White male, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2000 |
| Anthony Quagliariello | Detective | White male | White male, 57 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2000 |
| Joseph Bell | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 1999 |
| Matthew Bases | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic female, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 1999 |
| Mark Kurys | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 1999 |
| Christophe Cesarz | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1998 |
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.