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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
Richard Vetrano	Sergeant	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jose Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2004
Douglas Carr	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2005
Andrew Valenzano	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
James Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2005
Timothy Jaycox	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Michael Moyer	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Rodrigo Caballero	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Jorge Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2002
Joey Quigley	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2005
Mitchell Eisenberg	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	1999
Jill Puma	Police Officer	White female	Not available male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Not available female	Exonerated	2006
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2004
Derek Lenart	Police Officer	White male	Not available female	Exonerated	2006
Francisco Pina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jonathan Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Wilfredo Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Steven Green	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1998
Dana Harge	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Teng Luo	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available male	Exonerated	2005
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Derin Devuono	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Joseph Schwaner	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
Reinaldo Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2006
Brian Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2006
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Marco Balboni	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2005
Johnny Orellana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	1999
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	1999
Christophe Muller	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Diego Dotres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jaime Arroyo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Daphney Pamphile	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Silvio Schettini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Anthony Cutaia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Willy Yankovich	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Luis Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2006
Anthony Lustica	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Tonica Corlette	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2004
James Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Robert Winslow	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Frank Sarrica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Darren Caranella	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Rodrigo Caballero	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Abraham Arteaga	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Robert Mamys	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2003
Robert Mamys	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2003
Victor Robalino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2005
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Ray Dutton	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2002
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Christophe Marrow	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2002
Edmund Rumman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2006
Edwin Ferreira	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2005
Alexis Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
David Leonardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2004
Steven Weiss	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Carl Scogmanillo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Luis Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Bruno Pierre	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Jaime Feliciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Kevin Maloney	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Charles Stewart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Massari	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 18 years old	Exonerated	2002
Hadi Saifi	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Richard Lavelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Matthew	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Makiba Brathwaitezimmerma	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Charles Peifer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Jacqueline Oloughlin	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2005
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
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
Nicole Gondry	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
Luis Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2006
Blas Colon	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2006
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Francisco Pina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Michele Herbst	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
John Restaino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2003
Victor Paribello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Hugh Mackenzie	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	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.