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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
Kristy Abbasciano	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Isa Abbassi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2005
Gregory Abrahams	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2006
Donald Abrams	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Donald Abrams	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jose Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Joseph Agosta	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male	Exonerated	2006
Alexis Aguirre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2004
Reinaldo Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2006
Frank Amill	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2007
Miguele Amoresano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Trifon Anagnostos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2005
John Andryuk	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
John Andryuk	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2004
Victor Appel	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2006
Victor Appel	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2004
Alejandro Arias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jaime Arroyo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Abraham Arteaga	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Adrian Ashby	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2001
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2006
Phillip Atkins	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2005
Phillip Atkins	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2004
Kenneth Aube	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2002
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2001
James Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Herminio Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2001
Ritchie Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
James Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2005
Kreshnik Bakraqi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kreshnik Bakraqi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2006
Marco Balboni	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Marco Balboni	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Frank Baldo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Charles Barberi	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 21 years old	Exonerated	1999
Charles Barberi	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
David Barker	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Robert Barnett	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Robert Barnett	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2006
Trevor Baronette	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2003
Trevor Baronette	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Edward Barry	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Edward Barry	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	1999
Christophe Bastos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Christophe Bastos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Christophe Bastos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Daniel Beddows	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
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
Joseph Bell	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2002
John Bellico	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Richard Bergin	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Franklin Bohr	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Ronald Bolte	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Irene Bonicadelgado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2006
Peter Borukhov	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Peter Borukhov	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Matthew Bourbeau	Police Officer	White male	White male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2006
Sekou Bourne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2002
Makiba Brathwaitezimmerma	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
William Bravo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
William Bravo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Gerald Breiner	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2004
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	1999
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2003
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Larry Burnham	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Rodrigo Caballero	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Rodrigo Caballero	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Jose Caban	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2003
John Caban	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2001
Colin Caesar	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2003
Edgard Calderon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jose Camacho	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jose Camacho	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Jose Camacho	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Vito Campanelli	Police Officer	White male	Black female	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Daniel Campbell	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2006
Vincent Candela	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2006
Terrence Cane	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2004
Terrence Cane	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jesus Capo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2002
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2004
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male	Exonerated	2004
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2006
Darren Caranella	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Rolando Carbonell	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Carleo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Douglas Carr	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2005
Jesus Carrillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2003
Jeffrey Carroll	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Michael Casey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 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.