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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
Joseph Tallarine	Detective	White male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Gregory Abrahams	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Sean Christian	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Ralph Pacheco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Kelly Maldonado	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2004
Eric Robinson	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Angie Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Other Race female, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Richard Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Christopher McCormack	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Christian Addison	Police Officer	White male	White female, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Jerome Teahan	Police Officer	White male	Unknown not described	Unsubstantiated	2004
David Nisthaus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Martin Toczek	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Miguel Frias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Alexis Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Marco Balboni	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Joseph Redmond	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Matthew Lamendola	Detective	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Thomas Mclaughlin	Sergeant	White male	Not available female, 60 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2004
Robert Nugent	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Jermaine Matos	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Christophe Bastos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Fernando Espindola	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Daniel Pietranico	Police Officer	White male	White female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2004
Robert Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Frank Galati	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
David Pulice	Police Officer	White male	White female, 61 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2004
Andrew Valenzano	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Joseph Curley	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Daniel Mufaddi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
John Buthorn	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Phillip Atkins	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Jeffrey Carroll	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Steven Badlu	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2004
Hector Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Thomas Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Berkley Vantull	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Thomas Schick	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2004
Adam Sager	Detective	White male	White female, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Jose Criollo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Michael Allocca	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2004
Jorge Tavarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2004
Charles Stewart	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2004
John Fennell	Detective	White male	Not available female, 60 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2004
Marianela Tejada	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Kevin Maloney	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Joshua Rosenbaum	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Robert Henderson	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Scott Constanteles	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
David Barker	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Selwyn Fonrose	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Joseph Lessard	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Kappa Farid	Police Officer	White male	White female, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2003
Brian Reich	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Anthony Borelli	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Robert Henderson	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Leon Mcguire	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Christophe Wit	Police Officer	White male	Black female	Unsubstantiated	2003
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Robert Henderson	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Christophe Pasquale	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Emilio Ortega	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Randolff Pinard	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Avis Washington	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Andrew Kinsella	Police Officer	White male	White male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
David Powers	Detective	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
William Mcdaniel	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Christophe Cunha	Sergeant	White male	White male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Steven Gansrow	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Michael Manzolillo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
James Mcgarry	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Joseph Fitzgerald	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2003
John Restaino	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Maria Jeanty	Police Officer	Black female	Other Race male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Raymond Jansen	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Christopher McCormack	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Frank Galia	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Brian Clements	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Christophe Devaney	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Jaime Arroyo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Janna Salisbury	Police Officer	White female	Unknown male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Kevin Matthews	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Jose Caban	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 68 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Darren King	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2003
Craig Bier	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Joseph Bieniewicz	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2003
Silvio Schettini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Silvio Schettini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Flavia Orellana	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Not available	Substantiated (Instructions)	2003
Reginald Mcgraw	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Alex Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Alex Toro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2003
Gilbert Pierrelouis	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Frank Palumbo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003

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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.