Abuse of Authority: REFUSAL TO PROVIDE NAME/SHIELD NUMBER - The NYPD Files

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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
Dominick Vasaturo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Johnpaul Slater	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Gartner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Henry Daverin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ruben Serrano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mourad Arslanbeck	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Alexis Fernandez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Johanna Eskerete	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 54 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2012
Brian Query	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Tarulli	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rebecca Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Kalifa Diomande	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Bruce Ceparano	Sergeant	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2012
Shartisia Steward	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Vincent Dima	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ahmed Abdalla	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Jensen Dayle	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Savella	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jared Tepperman	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Frank Calafiore	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Chris Palmeri	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Timothy Rogers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Eric Bolger	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Greg Desideri	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Alban Kalaj	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ronald Pereira	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jacob Giannelli	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lynn Ruger	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jose Collazo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Muller	Sergeant	White male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Grieco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rosa Soto	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Thomas Reo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Esperanza Visbal	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2012
Tatiana Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Mayer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Paul Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Erick Flores	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Felix Concepcion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Stephen Penaranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Domingo Arjona	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Angel Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2012
Michael Geraldi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2012
Paul Scocca	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Aaron Lohman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Demonda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Marconi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Boller	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Gerard Walker	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Craig Basler	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Marco Balboni	Detective	White male	Asian male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Guida	Detective	White male	White male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Adnan Radoncic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Conn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Garry Lamour	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Louis Barbarelli	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Wilson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Steve Crozier	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Mcgovern	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Marlaine Cleveland	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Jacqueline Estrada	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Bryan Cullen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Pete Massa	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Justin Damico	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Dmitry Brush	Sergeant	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Ustick	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Carleo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Douglas Chavis	Detective	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Carlin	Detective	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Michael Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Refused male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Eliot Arias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Craig Victorino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kirth Buckley	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Fredy Cruz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Spencer Strauss	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Oggeri	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Ryan Bracconeri	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Granahan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Donald Climaco	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 88 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013

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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.