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Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
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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 |
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Leonardo Nimo | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Jose Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male | Exonerated | 2008 |
William Sitzman | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 11 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Leonardo Nimo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Gerardo Perrone | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Sean Mchugh | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Melissa Eger | Sergeant | White female | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Amaury Soriano | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Christophe Morris | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Vincent Dima | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Brian Newberry | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Michael Lennihan | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Jesus Capo | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Richard Tarver | Police Officer | Black male | Asian male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Duane Atkinson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Mathew Cangro | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Robert Chan | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Abigail Soto | Police Officer | Hispanic female | White male, 52 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Patrick Volgende | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 76 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Christophe Devaney | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Osvaldo Maldonado | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Julio Hernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Christophe Esposito | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Steve Crozier | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Juan Pichardo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Kevin Martin | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Anton Bartoldus | Detective | White male | White male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Miguel Pierre | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Ricardo Bocachica | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Darryl Schwartz | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Cassandra Matthews | Police Officer | White female | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Johnny Orellana | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | White male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Daniel Cross | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Brian Lapp | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Tyrone Seely | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic female, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Joseph Bermudez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
James Petruzzi | Police Officer | White male | White male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Matthew Lambert | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Steven Weiss | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Vicente Vivar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Gabriel Cuadros | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Patrick Horkan | Detective | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Duane Atkinson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Angel Vasquez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Terrence Rooney | Police Officer | White male | White female, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
John Ferrara | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
Scott Leff | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Michael Ignatz | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Justin Cracchiola | Police Officer | White male | White male, 67 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Jose Villafane | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Jose Villafane | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available , 32 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Tyler Howe | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Thomas Gagliardi | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 61 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Marcy Velez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Andrew Beirne | Police Officer | White male | White male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Robert Mcginn | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Scott Nuzzi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Steven Owens | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Mark Offenbacher | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Phillip Atkins | Detective | Black male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Anatoli Eltsov | Police Officer | White male | White male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Daniel Dallemand | Sergeant | Black male | Unknown male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Christophe Marrow | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Farid Aliyev | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Thomas Kelly | Lieutenant | White male | Unknown male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Kevin Casey | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Thomas Trachta | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Zoilo Encarnacion | Sergeant | Hispanic male | American Indian male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Omar Carrascotatis | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 62 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Samuel Hui | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Ariel Eusebio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Christophe Siani | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Yahaira Agate | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Jose Garcia | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Burt Antoine | Sergeant | Black male | Not available female | Exonerated | 2013 |
Christophe Winiarz | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Billy Dill | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Scott Walicki | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 62 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
John Ferrara | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Jean Prinston | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Marlon Wright | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Alena Aminova | Police Officer | White female | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Michael Fahmy | Detective | White male | Black male, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Frank Bulzoni | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Duane Atkinson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Richard Romance | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Frank Bulzoni | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Victor Robalino | Detective | Hispanic male | White male, 55 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Michael Fahmy | Detective | White male | White female, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Steven Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Eloy Sanchez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 13 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Dennis Ferrer | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Michael Fruchter | Police Officer | White male | White male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Angela Morris | Sergeant | Black female | Black female, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Christophe Zaleski | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 63 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Daniel Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Tulio Camejo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Ray Dutton | Police Officer | White male | Black male | Exonerated | 2008 |
Michael Rivera | Detective | Hispanic male | Refused male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
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.