Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

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
Jason Brown Police Officer White male Black male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Brian Mahon Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Steve Crozier Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Leon Pedigo Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Michael Carnacchio Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Aleksandr Kovalenko Sergeant White male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Keyana Kendall Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jaime Arroyo Detective Hispanic male Hispanic female, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Austin Slamowitz Police Officer White male White male, 63 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Christophe Mcdonald Police Officer Black male Unknown male, 19 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Richard Light Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Kevin Brennan Police Officer White male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Salvatore Melore Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Mordecai Austrie Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Iftekharul Awal Police Officer Asian male Black male, 35 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Iftekharul Awal Police Officer Asian male Black female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Steven Schwartz Police Officer White male White female, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Shmuel Tenenbaum Police Officer White male Refused male, 30 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Michael Mccarthy Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Nicholas Rios Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Louis Villegas Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Gina Mestre Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jeremiah Williams Detective Black male Asian female, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Veronica Martino Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Jason Ribeiro Detective Asian male Black female, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Joel Ayala Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Joby Thomas Police Officer Asian male Hispanic female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Daniel Golat Detective White male Black female, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Brian Holshek Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
John Manzo Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Leonard Clarke Police Officer Black male Black female, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
David Cowan Detective White male Hispanic female, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jeffrey Liu Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Carlos Corporan Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Leon Batson Police Officer Black male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Gabriel Nacelewicz Detective White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Robert Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Yael Magori Lieutenant White female White female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Robert Clark Sergeant White male Other Race male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Daniel Pietranico Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Gabriel Cuadros Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Christine Oakley Police Officer Black female Black male, 64 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Carlos Corporan Detective Hispanic male Black female, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Nicholas Ventimiglia Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Joseph Mcevoy Detective White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Lukasz Solis Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Yaritza Casul Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 64 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Edmundo Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Joel Ayala Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Herbert Medina Detective Hispanic male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Juan Candelario Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Michael Bletcher Sergeant Black male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Jimmy Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Angel Andujar Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Michael Greaney Detective White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Nicholas Rios Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
William Froehlich Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Elmer Pastran Police Officer Hispanic male Refused male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Patrick Cahill Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Camille Mcsam Police Officer Hispanic female White male, 65 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2016
Johnny Chalen Police Officer Hispanic male Other Race female, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
James Astuto Police Officer White male Black male, 52 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
John Espey Sergeant White male Refused female, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Manuel Gutierrez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male Unsubstantiated 2016
Matthew Mozdziak Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Daniel Golat Police Officer White male White female, 63 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Stephen Loffredo Police Officer White male Black female, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Theohari Koumniotes Sergeant White male Black female, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Joseph Gulotta Inspector White male Black female, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Shibu Madhu Sergeant Asian male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Michael Gaine Detective White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Joseph Gulotta Inspector White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
John Hansen Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Jose Velasquez Police Officer Asian male White male, 38 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Julio Meyreles Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 46 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Atara Ashford Sergeant Hispanic female Black female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Sicelin Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 69 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Angel Thevenin Police Officer Hispanic male Refused female, 73 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Joseph King Police Officer Black male White female, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Brittany Mccarthy Police Officer White female Hispanic male, 76 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Salvatore Melore Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Henry Daverin Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Brian Volpi Police Officer White male White female, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Kathryn Ellison Police Officer White female White male, 22 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Henry Daverin Sergeant White male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Edward Guzik Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 67 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
William Taylor Deputy Inspector White male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Luis Gutierrez Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 72 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Paul Kogan Police Officer White male Other Race male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Wael Jaber Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 42 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Ryan Hoffmann Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Michael Mccarthy Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
William Taylor Deputy Inspector White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Bryn Stayfer Police Officer White female Hispanic male, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Risel Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Dana Ladson Police Officer Black male Black male, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Frederic Ortiz Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Samuel Hui Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Frederic Ortiz Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Mark Sinatra Sergeant White male White female, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
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.
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