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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
Edward Caban	Captain	Hispanic male	Black male, 60 years old	Exonerated	2006
Deodat Urprasad	Deputy Inspector	Asian male	Asian male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Johnpaul Slater	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2012
Daniel Alessandrino	Detective	White male	White male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Timothy Gaven	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Johnnie Rosario	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2009
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jared Tepperman	Detective	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2010
Daniel Silverio	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Alberto Angilletta	Detective	White male	White male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	White male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Livingston	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Anibal Torres	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Anton Bartoldus	Detective	White male	White male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
James Williams	Detective	White male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Ricardo Nunez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Paul Oconnor	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Patrick Horkan	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2019
Victor Robalino	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2014
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2011
Robert Carbone	Detective	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Juan Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	White female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Johnston	Detective	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Rafael Iturralde	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Richard Debraux	Detective	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Refused male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2013
Leonardo Nimo	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2019
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2015
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2011
Wilmar Mejia	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Cleary	Detective	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Mohammed Rios	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2010
Darryl Schwartz	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2014
Joseph Sans	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2013
Brendan Obrien	Detective	White male	White male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Edward Mcbride	Detective	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Abraham Arteaga	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Richard Bevers	Detective	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Anthony Ronda	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Zaleski	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 63 years old	Exonerated	2015
Michael Raso	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Welington Feliz	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Joyce Williams	Lieutenant	Black female	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Reddington	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 64 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
William Taylor	Lieutenant	White male	Other Race male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2007
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Fernando Guimaraes	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Asian male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2007
Daniel Campbell	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Anthony Ronda	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Redmond	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Sarrubbo	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Johnny Orellana	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	White male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2012
Daniel Campbell	Lieutenant	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Doyle	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Christophe Devaney	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Thomas Kelly	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Timothy Fox	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
Christophe Marrow	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Devaney	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2014
Fernando Guimaraes	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2007
Brendan Reilly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2013
Jerry Sukhnandan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kyron Delarosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Mark Offenbacher	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2018
Steven Owens	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 14 years old	Exonerated	2016
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jasmine Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Scott Nuzzi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Michael Smith	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Gregory Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jeremy Grossman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Kyron Delarosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Konti Markvukaj	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
James Lukeson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Barbetto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 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
Genti Bektashaj	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Marcy Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	White male, 67 years old	Exonerated	2007
Luz Villacorta	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Other Race male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Ray Dutton	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2008
Tulio Camejo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2009
Lennoxann Samerson	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2019
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Heriberto Sifonte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Dean Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Anthony Hyde	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017

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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.