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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment

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
262
Complaints
234
Allegations
276

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
Flavio Rodriguez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Leslie Anderson Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 34 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Annemarie Murphy Sergeant White female Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Waliur Rahman Detective Asian male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Francisco Ponce Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Robert King Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Anthony Wright Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
James Trapasso Police Officer White male White male, 61 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Charles Gove Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Joseph Deck Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Frank Laquidara Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Dino Tamayo Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 47 years old Exonerated 2009
Derek Sambolin Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
James Mahoney Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Daniel Castronova Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Eric Delman Sergeant White male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Michael Diaz Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Michael Granshaw Detective White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Robert Dress Police Officer White male Black male, 59 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Ana Delpilar Police Officer Hispanic female Refused male, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Christophe Siani Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Timothy Harrington Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 36 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2008
Nicholas Digaudio Detective White male Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Samuel Maria Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 28 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2008
Charles Galletta Police Officer White male White male, 70 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Charles Brown Police Officer Black male White male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Jay Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Eric Beckel Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Patrick Quigley Police Officer White male Asian male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Brendan Obrien Detective White male Hispanic male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Scott Nuzzi Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Michael Gibbs Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Thomas Smith Police Officer White male White female, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Enrique Santos Lieutenant Hispanic male Unknown male, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Darryl Chen Police Officer Black male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Justin Cracchiola Police Officer White male Unknown male, 43 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Frederick Lewis Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Steven Lawrence Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Devin Long Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Christophe Clark Police Officer Black male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Anthony Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Craig Basler Police Officer White male Black female, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Paul Brauer Police Officer White male Black female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Orin Cox Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Nerys Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Warren Barnes Police Officer Black male Other Race female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Eduardo Perezromero Police Officer Hispanic male Other Race female, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Todd Craven Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Ricardo Bocachica Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Derrick Mcintosh Police Officer Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Joseph Collura Police Officer White male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Kenneth Clarke Police Officer Black male Black female, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Jorge Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male Unsubstantiated 2005
Michael Alongi Sergeant White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
John Curtis Sergeant White male Black male, 48 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Michael Mendez Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Kenneth Ayala Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Darren King Police Officer Black male Black female, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Freddy Dominguez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Avis Washington Sergeant Black female Hispanic female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Brian Depalo Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Frederick Reyes Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
John Roberts Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Mark Cozzi Police Officer White male Unknown male Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Nathaniel Anthony Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Daniel Palumbo Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Anthony Borelli Sergeant White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Stephen Espinoza Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Michael Weber Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Elizabeth Oneill Police Officer White female White male, 41 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Erik Lubrano Police Officer White male Black female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Brian Depalo Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 76 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Anna Serrano Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Joseph Hayes Police Officer White male Black female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
John Potkay Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Gerard Collins Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2000
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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.
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