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
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Damon Martin	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Daphney Pamphile	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Steven Lawrence	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2007
Scott Cote	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Kevin Matthews	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Roy Secharan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Brian Nyhus	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2007
David Grieco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Bruce Ceparano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jason Cira	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
John Hopkins	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Cedric Green	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jaime Pedraza	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Erick Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Bradley Field	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
James Slavin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Frank Amill	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2007
Robert Dress	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2007
Cedric Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 66 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2007
John Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Nicholas Monello	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
James Williams	Detective	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2007
Clifford Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
David Pulice	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Exonerated	2006
Thomas Hirdt	Police Officer	White male	White male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
John Donovan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Moyer	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Jens Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Albert Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jay Wolsky	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2006
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
John Oconnor	Sergeant	White male	White male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Cousinhayes	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Luis Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2006
Luis Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2006
Melissa Eger	Sergeant	White female	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ralph Cilento	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Christophe Muller	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Darren Caranella	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Dana Harge	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Jorge Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2006
Silvio Schettini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Larry Burnham	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Daniel Campbell	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2006
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2006
Joseph Matzinger	Sergeant	White male	Unknown female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Brian Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2006
Philip Fioranelli	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Titus Parham	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic female, 12 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Kelly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2006
Sean Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jose Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jose Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2006
Robert Barnett	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2006
Richard Lavelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Timothy Donnelly	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Lennihan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2006
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2006
Edmund Rumman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2006
Hadi Saifi	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ramon Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Carl Scogmanillo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ramon Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Jonathan Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Ralph Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Charles Peifer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Sean Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Anthony Gulotta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
James Longo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2006
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2006
Welington Feliz	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
Nicole Gondry	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
Reinaldo Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 43 years old	Exonerated	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
Makiba Brathwaitezimmerma	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Michael Carleo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Dennis Ferrer	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jose Camacho	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused male, 28 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.