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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
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
Dustin Genco	Detective	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Robert Nugent	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2004
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2004
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2004
Christophe Cooke	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2004
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 10 years old	Exonerated	2004
Steven Hearns	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Jeffrey Carroll	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Willie Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2004
Erick Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2004
Robert Barnett	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Patrick Gaines	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Patrick Cherry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Robert Dipaola	Detective	White male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2004
Robert Winslow	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Dion Edwards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2004
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2004
Brendan Obrien	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Nicholas Horun	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Sans	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2004
Harjit Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2004
Roberto Melendez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2004
Martin Dennehy	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2004
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2004
Roberto Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Fabio Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2004
Jose Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2004
Brian Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Brian Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Terrence Cane	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2004
Daniel Pietranico	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2004
Victor Appel	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2004
Kevin Maloney	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Aubrey Henry	Detective	Black male	Unknown male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Peter Ievolo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2004
Avis Washington	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2004
Randall Litrell	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Steven Hearns	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2004
Daniel Young	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
Steven Weiss	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
David Leonardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2004
Richard Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Christophe Bastos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Michael Lopuzzo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2004
Daniel Young	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2004
Selwyn Fonrose	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Ronald Humphrey	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2004
William Bravo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Anthony Ronda	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male	Exonerated	2004
Kwame Kipp	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2004
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2004
Herbert Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Joey Quigley	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2004
Alexis Aguirre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2004
Selwyn Fonrose	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2004
Ohmeed Davodian	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Licitra	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Licitra	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Clifton Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Aaron Netterville	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Joseph Redmond	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2004
Hector Fuentes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Eric Downes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2004
John Facchini	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2004
Edward Young	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2004
John Zamot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2004
Brian Clements	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Seiling	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Luis Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004

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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.