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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
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Vicente Vivar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2016
Richard Tarver	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michael Smith	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Juan Pichardo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Michael Becker	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2017
Michael Becker	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available , 32 years old	Exonerated	2017
Michael Becker	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Edgar Padilla	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2017
Mirjan Lolja	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2017
Tyler Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Keith Figueroa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Tyler Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Alan Hassel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2017
Chris Aybar	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2017
Daniel Campbell	Lieutenant	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2017
Brian Volpi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jack Dagnese	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jack Dagnese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Mohammed Rios	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Barbetto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Ariel Urena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2017
Deodat Urprasad	Deputy Inspector	Asian male	Asian male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Anthony Hyde	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Shaw	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jack Dagnese	Police Officer	White male	White male, 73 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Thomas Sheridan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Juan Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Daniel Alessandrino	Detective	White male	White male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Juan Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jerry Sukhnandan	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jose Villafane	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available , 32 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jose Villafane	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2017
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Scott Hughes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 51 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
James Lindquist	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Michael Reddington	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 64 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Ariel Eusebio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2017
Patrick Quigley	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Campbell	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Nicolas Mahuad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2017
David Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Harris Haskovic	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Joseph Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Yahkeem White	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2018
Sean Collins	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Jose Santory	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Jose Santory	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2018
Franklin Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
Michael Bletcher	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2018
Numael Amador	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Billy Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Colin Kogan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Mark Offenbacher	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jose Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2018
Anton Bartoldus	Detective	White male	White male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Ryan Snavely	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Michael Laborde	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Dwight Powell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Eric Iocco	Police Officer	White male	White male, 62 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Merita Hoxha	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Justin Ellis	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2018
Justin Ellis	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2018
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Steven Abrams	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Robert Chan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2018
Frank Recca	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Gabriel Cuadros	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2018
Saquoi Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Patrick Volgende	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 76 years old	Exonerated	2018
Saquoi Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Timothy Gaven	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Peter Deak	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 67 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Victor Velez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Wilbert Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Mayko Matos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Daniel Silverio	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Robert Eysel	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Edward Caceres	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 67 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Jonathan Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Michael Temperino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Rochael Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Michael Raso	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Pasquale Dethomas	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2019
Stephen Schmitt	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Daniel Hachemeister	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Renaldo Weekes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Jose Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Karl Thomas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Vincent Gambino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Billy Dill	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2019
Pasquale Dethomas	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Kyron Delarosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Jose Santory	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Omar Carrascotatis	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 62 years old	Exonerated	2019
Nelson Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Jimmy Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019

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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.