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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Jessica Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 52 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Jose Garcia Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2011
Wilson Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 50 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Brian Mahon Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Kevin Mulhern Police Officer White male Other Race male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Jerry Wolvers Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 45 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Vincent Candela Police Officer White male White male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Anthony Ronda Lieutenant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Daniel Sjoberg Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Lennihan Sergeant White male Black male, 14 years old Exonerated 2011
Henry Lopez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2011
Edward Mcbride Detective White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2011
Darren Melhado Police Officer Black male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Ahsan Zafar Police Officer Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Frank Galati Detective White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Phillip Atkins Detective Black male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2011
Rafael Figueroa Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Paul Prendergast Sergeant White male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Bryant Pineda Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 32 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Francis Bryant Sergeant Black male Hispanic male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Victor Rosa Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Thomas Gagliardi Sergeant White male Black female, 61 years old Exonerated 2011
Louis Marinacci Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 42 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Joseph Noto Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 52 years old Exonerated 2011
Brian Lapp Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2011
Matthew Delaney Sergeant White male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Aaron Edwards Sergeant Black male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Frank Bulzoni Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2011
Michael Lennihan Sergeant White male Black male, 39 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Michael Falk Sergeant White male White male, 42 years old Exonerated 2011
Roman Goris Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Jelson Goyco Detective Hispanic male Black male, 46 years old Exonerated 2011
Jelson Goyco Detective Hispanic male Black female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Bruno Pierre Sergeant Black male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Alexis Dejesus Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Leonel Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2011
Kevin Mockel Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2011
Charles Awani Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Adam Acosta Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Francisco Pina Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Scott Hamburger Police Officer White male White female, 71 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Joe Green Police Officer Black male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2011
Craig Bier Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Jared Fox Police Officer White male Black male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Charles Awani Police Officer Black male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Amaury Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Mario Morales Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Julio Meyreles Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 43 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Lamont Gibson Police Officer Black male Black male, 54 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Rudy Anzalone Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Jorge Tavarez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2010
Pamela Benites Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 54 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2010
Sasha Rosen Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 34 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Michael Fahmy Detective White male Black male, 57 years old Exonerated 2010
Neilrodric Dey Police Officer Black male Black male, 54 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2010
Bruce Solomon Police Officer Black male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2010
Christian Rojas Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 44 years old Exonerated 2010
Duane Atkinson Police Officer Black male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2010
Kelvin Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2010
Kevin Martin Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2010
Julio Hernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2010
Steven Malone Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2010
Matthew Escudero Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2010
Charles Senat Police Officer Black male Black male, 47 years old Exonerated 2010
Michael Pomerantz Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Jared Tepperman Detective White male Black male, 48 years old Exonerated 2010
Shawn Wilkinson Police Officer Black male Black male, 58 years old Exonerated 2010
Mathew Cangro Police Officer Asian male Asian male, 33 years old Exonerated 2009
Brian Holshek Police Officer White male Unknown male Exonerated 2009
Kenneth Singletary Police Officer Black male Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2009
Elvis Cole Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2009
Jose Collazo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 52 years old Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2009
Javier Fernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2009
Vincent Testa Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Stephen Schoefer Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Jeffrey Scalf Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2009
Alex Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Ruben Alvarez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2009
Kristin Castellano Police Officer White female Hispanic male, 52 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Nelly Vazquez Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 52 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Lawrence Sanchez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2009
Kirk Boone Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2009
Jonathan Rothenberg Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2009
Tulio Camejo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2009
Johnnie Rosario Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 52 years old Exonerated 2009
Neil Casey Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 28 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Boehm Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Neil Casey Police Officer White male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
James Petruzzi Police Officer White male White male, 15 years old Exonerated 2009
Christophe Devaney Lieutenant White male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Orvin Feliciano Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 52 years old Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2009
Joseph Deck Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2009
Dedrick Hall Police Officer Black male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Christophe Kerbis Police Officer White male Black male, 51 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Robert Taylor Police Officer Black male Black male, 50 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Larry Meyers Police Officer White male Black male, 65 years old Exonerated 2009
Jasmine Velez Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2009
Derek Almeida Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 53 years old Exonerated 2009
Paul Mcmahon Lieutenant White male Black female, 30 years old Exonerated 2009
Erika Espaillat Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 52 years old Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2009
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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