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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
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Astuto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Tanya Barry	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Tanya Barry	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Walter Valentin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
James Lukeson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
James Lukeson	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2008
Christophe Mcdonald	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Milly Matos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edward Reardon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joaquin Altamirano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Kristy Abbasciano	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brian Mchenry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Wesley Fradera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ludwig Narcisse	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Terrell Anderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Marcel Francis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Gergis	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Stephen Polesovsky	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Justin Simms	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Louis Villegas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Restaino	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
John Bastedenbeck	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Richard Lavelle	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Craig Bier	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Gregory Long	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Light	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 63 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Jaime Arroyo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Angel Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alexis Dejesus	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Pedro Jiminian	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
William Froehlich	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Oliva Carvajalhernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 33 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2008
Jose Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Philip Tsang	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Francisco Pina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Daniel Dallemand	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Frank Bulzoni	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Yaritza Casul	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 64 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Michael Carnacchio	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Shameeka Cummings	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Adrian Duran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Rajesh Lalwani	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Anson Lancaster	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2008
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Garry Lamour	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Brian Clements	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Frank Sarrica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Barbara Fischer	Sergeant	White female	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Bryan Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Barreto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Mark Ward	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Mark Ward	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Tanya Bucknor	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Justin Caballero	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Frank Sarrica	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Andrew Hayes	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
John Tancredi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Ralph Cilento	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 75 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Dana Ladson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Risel Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph Mcevoy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Joseph Mcevoy	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Mcevoy	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Nocerino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Tiery Samuels	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Frank Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Eisert	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
James Eisert	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Todd Hansen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Erik Lubrano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Radoslaw Terepka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Atara Ashford	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Henry Daverin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Roman Goris	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Marco Balboni	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Gerard Walker	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Salvatore Melore	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Adnan Radoncic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jorge Mergeche	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ralph Pacheco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004

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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.