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Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number

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

1,145

Complaints

1,228

Allegations

1,483

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
Larry Dunn	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Christen	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 64 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jason Greenberg	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 66 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kevin Breen	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Guerrieri	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ronald Bolte	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Aman Rana	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Carlos Lozada	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jonathan Glazer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Dean Campbell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Harish Mansharamani	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Juan Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
William Schumacher	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Miriam Lasso	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Fruchter	Police Officer	White male	White male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Frank Danzi	Police Officer	White male	White female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ludwig Narcisse	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Steven Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 38 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Michael Gagliardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Efrain Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Derek Sambolin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Genti Bektashaj	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Louis Marinacci	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Anthony Lafemina	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Aaron Edwards	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Keith Chatterton	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Francesco Cusimano	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe Muller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Christophe Cantelmi	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Giamboi	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Christophe Ward	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Travis Brinson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Adnan Radoncic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Lawrence Perrotta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
William Morris	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Hassan Raza	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Martin Costello	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kevin Devine	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Hesterhagen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Justin Prieto	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Gregory Kennedy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Clark	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Alan Rosenthal	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Brian Schulman	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Parks	Detective	Black male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Lydell Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Mauvin Bute	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe Devaney	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Scott Hamburger	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Matthew Bourbeau	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Corey Gresko	Detective	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Graves	Detective	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Willie Artiles	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Ardolino	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
William Ditomaso	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Dick	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Artur Espenberg	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Eddie Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Joseph Bonner	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Gabriel Baaith	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Angela Polancobrito	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Dennis Westbrook	Police Officer	Black male	Refused male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kenneth Sepulveda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Christophe Popovic	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic female, 23 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Joseph Padula	Sergeant	White male	White male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Daniel Marussich	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Richard Gili	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Matthew Escudero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Arpan Das	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 50 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Derek Epstein	Sergeant	White male	Asian female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Diana Pichardo	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Barbara Miguel	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Ardolino	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Ardolino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Yaris Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
James Campbell	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Jose Santory	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Yahkeem White	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Colin Caesar	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kristy Abbasciano	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ronald Robinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Juan Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Scott Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Pawel Dabrowski	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mike Civil	Detective	Black male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Eric Francis	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brian Benvenuto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Schierenbeck	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015

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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.