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Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop

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

487

Complaints

601

Allegations

696

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
Charles Stewart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Sasha Rosen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Rodrigo Caballero	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Kenneth Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kenneth Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Francisco Pina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2005
Francisco Pina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Jacqueline Oloughlin	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2005
Andrew Valenzano	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jeffrey Mayo	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Edwin Ferreira	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2005
Diego Dotres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Anthony Cutaia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Brian Goldberg	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Isa Abbassi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2005
Aubrey Henry	Detective	Black male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Miguel Marte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Perry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Timpanaro	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Kevin Finegan	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2005
Daniel Hill	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 12 years old	Exonerated	2005
Andrew Puglisi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Kishon Hickman	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
James Longo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Samantha Evans	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 62 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Brian Fleming	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Fleming	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Dennis Russo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Evelyn Sosa	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 61 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Patrick Cherry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
Trifon Anagnostos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2005
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	White male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Phillip Atkins	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2005
Christophe Bastos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Kelly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2005
Julio Lasalle	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2005
Manuel Matos	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2005
Frank Danzi	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Michael Korabel	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Korabel	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Richard Zacarese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jay Wolsky	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
Juan Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Juan Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Daniel Castronova	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ohmeed Davodian	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ohmeed Davodian	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2005
Melvin Moultrie	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Melvin Moultrie	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jerry Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Joseph Redmond	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Redmond	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Robert Reed	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Eric Downes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Eric Downes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Eric Downes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Exonerated	2005
Michael Langlois	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Brian Gill	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Mccloskey	Police Officer	White male	White male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Brian Mccloskey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kieran Fox	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2005
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2005
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2005
Carlos Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jose Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Nicholas Garafola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kevin Matthews	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2005
Lowez Walker	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Vito Campanelli	Police Officer	White male	Black female	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Genry Cobos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2005
Wayne Lowe	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Melissa Clark	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jaime Pedraza	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2005
Filastin Srour	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2005
Angel Delgado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2005
Miguele Amoresano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
William Larkin	Police Officer	White male	White male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2005
Teng Luo	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available male	Exonerated	2005
Jeremiah Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Lafata	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Robert Dress	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
James Quilty	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 59 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brendan Owens	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Adan Munoz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael White	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Daniel Miranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Vincent Fontana	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Adam Sager	Detective	White male	White male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005

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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.