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Abuse of Authority: Question

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

459

Complaints

448

Allegations

527

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
Eloy Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 13 years old	Exonerated	2006
Alfredo Alba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2006
Genner Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 13 years old	Exonerated	2006
Nerys Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Edward Caban	Captain	Hispanic male	Black male, 60 years old	Exonerated	2006
Melvin Moultrie	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Rafael Iturralde	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Gregory Lomangino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
James Marcinek	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2006
Sean Mchugh	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2007
Dennis Ferrer	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Robert Romano	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 17 years old	Exonerated	2007
Heriberto Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Kevin Casey	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joseph Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2007
Mikal Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2007
Angela Morris	Sergeant	Black female	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Marco Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2007
Angela Morris	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2007
William Taylor	Lieutenant	White male	Other Race male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2007
Melissa Eger	Sergeant	White female	Not available	Exonerated	2007
Karanlall Brijbukhan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Terrence Rooney	Police Officer	White male	White female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2007
Richard Debraux	Detective	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Dazi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2007
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Louis Leblanc	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2007
Louis Leblanc	Sergeant	White male	White male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2007
Vicnia Liz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Unknown male	Exonerated	2007
Anthony Ronda	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Robert Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Peter Borukhov	Police Officer	White male	White male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2007
Anthony Longobardi	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2007
Fernando Guimaraes	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2007
James Kelly	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Clark	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2007
Carlos Marchena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Ignatz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Cassandra Matthews	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2007
Nerys Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Richard Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Alberto Angilletta	Detective	White male	White male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Edwin Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2007
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Juan Pichardo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	White male, 67 years old	Exonerated	2007
Fernando Guimaraes	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Asian male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2007
Clifford Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Winiarz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
James Lukeson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Abigail Soto	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2007
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kenneth Dwyer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Glynn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Parks	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joyce Williams	Lieutenant	Black female	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Marrow	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jerry Sukhnandan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Roberto Suarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2008
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
Scott Nuzzi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Osvaldo Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jamie Blandeburgo	Police Officer	White female	White female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2008
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	White male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2008
Amaury Soriano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2008
Ray Dutton	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2008
Shaun Odonnell	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2008
Marcy Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Daniel Sarrubbo	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Heriberto Sifonte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Luis Marte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Barbie Lewis	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2008
Christophe Zaleski	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Stephen Sheppard	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Wilfredo Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 59 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
William Sitzman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 11 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jeannette Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Frank Bulzoni	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2008
Anthony Adamo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
William Falcone	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2008
Albert Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Jose Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2008
Daniel Beddows	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2008
Marlon Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008
Geemaayi Simmons	Police Officer	Black female	Other Race male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Michael Sikos	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Steven Weiss	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2008
Adrian Uruci	Sergeant	White male	Unknown female, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Brendan Obrien	Detective	White male	White male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Carlos Felipe	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gerardo Perrone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2008
Luz Villacorta	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Other Race male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008

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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.