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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
Michael Lennihan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2011
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2011
Craig Bier	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Amaury Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Brian Mahon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Joe Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2011
Scott Hamburger	Police Officer	White male	White female, 71 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Falk	Sergeant	White male	White male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2011
Adam Acosta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Charles Awani	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Kevin Mockel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jerry Wolvers	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Rafael Figueroa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Alexis Dejesus	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Bruno Pierre	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Wilson Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Frank Bulzoni	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Anthony Ronda	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Darren Melhado	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Francis Bryant	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Henry Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2011
Charles Awani	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Paul Prendergast	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Noto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2011
Brian Lapp	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2011
Matthew Delaney	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Aaron Edwards	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Louis Marinacci	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Mario Morales	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 61 years old	Exonerated	2011
George Allen	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Johnpaul Slater	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2012
John Massari	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rafael Iturralde	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Sears	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Johnny Orellana	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	White male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2012
Elvin Gashi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Lyndon Providence	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2012
Christophe Capone	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ryan Healy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Stephen Sheppard	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Je Chai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jemal Gungor	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2012
Brian Newberry	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2012
Edwin Aguilar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Christophe Ierardi	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Stephen Dimassa	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Degen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2012
Joseph Sans	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
John Livingston	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Ryan Habermehl	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Freddy Tavares	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 67 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Joshua Konen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2012
Stephen Schoefer	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2012
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Fredery Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Burt Antoine	Sergeant	Black male	Not available female	Exonerated	2013
Michael Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Refused male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2013
Thomas Trachta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2013
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Paul Kogan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2013
Brendan Reilly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2013
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2013
William Morris	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Vincent Dima	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2013
Stephen Lalchan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Antwon Trent	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Sergio Delamota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2013
Robert Mcginn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Domenick Lagomarsine	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Albert Aronov	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Alena Aminova	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2013
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2013
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Jason Dossantos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2013
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	White female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2013
Andrew Acierno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 59 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Mark Finelli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2013
Blase Mucciariello	Police Officer	White male	White female, 50 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2013
Fizgeralda Herndonsoto	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2013
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Richard Zacarese	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Martin Cunningham	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Darryl Schwartz	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2014
Genti Bektashaj	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Victor Robalino	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2014
Richard Romance	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michael Fruchter	Police Officer	White male	White male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2014
Dean Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Jason Bianchini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Steve Crozier	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Eumir Ferrer	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Daniel Cross	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2014

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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.