Abuse of Authority: QUESTION AND/OR STOP - The NYPD Files

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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
Bernice Pacheco	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2005
Lars Frantzen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Neils Veras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 59 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Dennis Harrigan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Ezequiel Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Thomas Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jason Reynolds	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Query	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Richard Vetrano	Sergeant	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2005
Richard Vetrano	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jose Delrosario	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jose Delrosario	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
David Guevara	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Fragliossi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Fragliossi	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jelson Goyco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Felix Delcarpio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2005
Mathew Reich	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 60 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Gregory Bell	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Gregory Bell	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Mikal Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Carlos Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 13 years old	Exonerated	2005
Trevor Baronette	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Norman Grandstaff	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Nicholas Soto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2005
Curtis Crystal	Sergeant	White male	White male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Shuzhen Wong	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2005
Terrence Cane	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2005
Charesse Davis	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2005
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Giovanni Giovanniello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2005
Francisco Castillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Benjamin Gottlieb	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Martin Gimenez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Natalie Roman	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Richard Cohen	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2005
Eric Konoski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Alejandro Arias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Giovanna Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 61 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Woody Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
William Bravo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jill Puma	Police Officer	White female	Not available male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jill Puma	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Joey Quigley	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2005
Marcelo Razzo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Anthony Salato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2005
Anthony Salato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2005
Clement Krug	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Andrew Valenzano	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2005
Andrew Valenzano	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Pablo Penaherrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jerome Teahan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Mchenry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2005
Douglas Carr	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2005
Joseph Hickey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2005
Joseph Hickey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Peter Borukhov	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jose Camacho	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Colbert Martin	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
John Musante	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2005
Julio Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Peter Russo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2005
Shaun Tanner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Diego Dotres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael Licitra	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ronald Bolte	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Miata	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Robert Simms	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kieran Fox	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael Casey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Edward Scali	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
David Powers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2005
Nelson Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Mario Morales	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Exonerated	2006
Frank Baldo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Brian Query	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jason Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Reinaldo Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2006
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Edward Scali	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2006
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Kevin Matthews	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Michael Servino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 61 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Luis Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2006
Milton Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2006
Titus Parham	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic female, 12 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jonathan Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Adam Samet	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jay Wolsky	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ezequiel Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2006
Edgard Calderon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006

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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.