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Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint
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
173
Complaints
163
Allegations
185
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Jacobi | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 44 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
| Ryan White | Sergeant | White male | Asian male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
| James Gale | Sergeant | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Shalendra Beharry | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian male, 47 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Michael Szczecinski | Sergeant | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| David Belkin | Police Officer | White male | Asian female, 54 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Christophe Harris | Police Officer | Black male | Asian female, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Vincent Calderone | Police Officer | White male | Asian female | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
| Joseph Coon | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
| Jessica Romance | Detective | Hispanic female | Black female, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Ralph Cilento | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
| Katherine Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Cristy Camarenaabad | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 60 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
| Angel Dejesus | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Angel Dejesus | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
| Johanna Vega | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 68 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2010 |
| Rajesh Lalwani | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Richard Law | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Steven Owens | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Todd Jacoby | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Gesner Charles | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
| Keith Cheng | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Thomas Kelly | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Fitzroy Vigilance | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
| Genti Bektashaj | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2019 |
| Troy Peacock | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Stephan Carr | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 34 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Robert Delaney | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Robert Delaney | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| David Oyague | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Andres Gomera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
| Shirnell Williams | Sergeant | Black female | Black male, 52 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Nasser Alsubai | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Anthony Baty | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Krysta Cosenza | Police Officer | White female | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Orlando Ortega | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 57 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
| Philip Tse | Police Officer | Asian male | Black female, 42 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Christophe Dede | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Alvin Gomez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
| James Holder | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Nathan Mole | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Nathan Mole | Sergeant | Black male | Black female, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Robert Morris | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Derek Wilkins | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Anthony Moon | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2008 |
| Dmitry Brush | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
| Brett Granowetter | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
| Vincent Grego | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
| Michael Hartman | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
| Ignazio Conca | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
| Eliezer Caraballo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Michael Cintron | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 51 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Shaquan Harvin | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
| Raymond Jansen | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Stephen Espinoza | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black female | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
| Naoki Yaguchi | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 28 years old | Substantiated (No Recommendations) | 2010 |
| Norman Cox | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 55 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Ruel Stephenson | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2001 |
| Mark Finelli | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Henry Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Ishmael Bailey | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
| Steven Glassman | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
| Vincent Fontana | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 57 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
| Kaz Daughtry | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
| Gregory Long | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 28 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Carlos Santiago | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
| Ervy Diaz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
| Martin Gimenez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
| Jose Santini | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Darren King | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Yefersson Salasmartinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Genti Bektashaj | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
| Maricruz Crespo | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 50 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
| Anthony Lee | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Michael Hansson | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 34 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Mario Belluomo | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 48 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
| Paul Aparo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
| Paul Aparo | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
| Jonathan Mcdonald | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Daniel Zollo | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
| Larry Meyers | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Eric Almeida | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Dominick Abate | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
| Kevin Gwinn | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 30 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| David Leonardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
| Fredy Cruz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
| Cory Benowitz | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
| Joseph Albert | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 63 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
| Leslie Romero | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
| Mackenson Nelson | Sergeant | Black male | Black female, 60 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Bekim Kalicovic | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
| Brian Query | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black female, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Douglas Ayres | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 50 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| John Debenedetto | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
| Benjamin Gottlieb | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Olivia Windisch | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic female, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
| Melissa Arvelo | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
| Ayanna Harrison | Sergeant | Black female | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| John Debenedetto | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
| Herme Perdomo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
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.