Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

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
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.
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