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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
Omar Elsayed	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Cappellano	Police Officer	White male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Christophe Devaney	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2014
Christophe Morris	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2014
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Stephen Lalchan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Oscar Wdowiak	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Brian Kovarik	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2014
Brian Kovarik	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2014
Joseph Redmond	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Matthew Manchester	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Clark	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Matthew Bourbeau	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2014
Vincent Agostino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Whelan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Frank Gambina	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Frank Gambina	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 64 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ryan Larson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alexis Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michele Butera	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Ronald Hobson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2014
Steve Crozier	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Jose Tabora	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Robert Carbone	Detective	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Alejandro Valderrama	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2014
Eumir Ferrer	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 64 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Michael Doyle	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2015
Ramon Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Charles Buglione	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ricardo Nunez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Joel Crooms	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Yahaira Agate	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2015
Wilmar Mejia	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jeremy Grossman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Richard Bevers	Detective	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Matthew Escudero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Laurent Mede	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2015
Leo Bonacasa	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2015
Christophe Sanchez	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2015
Bryan Vaughan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Angel Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Jean Francisco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Matthew Lombardo	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Cleary	Detective	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Emilio Estevez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Dick	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Richard Danese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Brian Alexander	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Christophe Zaleski	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 63 years old	Exonerated	2015
Fernando Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
James Williams	Detective	White male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Abraham Arteaga	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Deangelo Jones	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Anatoli Eltsov	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Edwin Ferreira	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jean Prinston	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2015
Farid Aliyev	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Thomas Kelly	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Paul Oconnor	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	White male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2015
Gerardo Urbaez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2015
Daniel Dallemand	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Ronald Robinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mark Brinadze	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2015
Michael Laborde	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2016
Steven Owens	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 14 years old	Exonerated	2016
Juan Carrero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Steven Ramunno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Konti Markvukaj	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Rudy Anzalone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2016
Anthony Lee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 14 years old	Exonerated	2016
James Franklin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Nelson Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2016
Matthew Lambert	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michael Carrieri	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Brian Raghoenathsingh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
John Moise	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Shibu Madhu	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Brian Volpi	Police Officer	White male	White female, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Rudy Anzalone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Rudy Anzalone	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
James Seder	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Tyrone Seely	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2016
Margaret Stanton	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2016
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Anibal Torres	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Gregory Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016

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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.