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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
Shameeka Cummings	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jaime Arroyo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Jaime Arroyo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Adrian Duran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Maribel Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Maribel Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Anson Lancaster	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Alexis Dejesus	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Steve Crozier	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Alvin Gomez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Gregory Lomangino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Gregory Lomangino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Lukasz Solis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Nicholas Ventimiglia	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Carlin	Detective	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Cory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Cory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Frank Sarrica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Leon Mcguire	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Luis Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Barbara Fischer	Sergeant	White female	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Katie Cozetti	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Felix Gross	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Cassandra Matthews	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
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
Ryan Hoffmann	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jonathan Hom	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Justin Caballero	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Brett Allen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Christophe Aylward	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Anthony Gulotta	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jennifer Marinello	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Daniel Mcgovern	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
William Morris	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Robert Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Patrick Cahill	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Marlaine Cleveland	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Dana Ladson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Ramon Portillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Gary Aaronson	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Joseph Mcevoy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Silvio Schettini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Silvio Schettini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Joseph Mcevoy	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Silvio Schettini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
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
Miguel Marte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Gabriel Nacelewicz	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
George Vrotsos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Alexandros Kalogiros	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Cappellano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
James Eisert	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Todd Hansen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Thomas Napolitano	Detective	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Yevgeniy Zaytsev	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Frank Galati	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Kevin Brennan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Atara Ashford	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Justin Dengler	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Vincent Dima	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Pete Massa	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Daniel Castronova	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Froehlich	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gerard Walker	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Sean Christian	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Castillo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Adnan Radoncic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Vincent Ciardiello	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Martin Costello	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Conn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Alex Toro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2003
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jorge Mergeche	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Kevin Geoghegan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Darnell Forrester	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 67 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.