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

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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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.

Search for Officer by Name or Badge Number

Look Up a Precinct or Unit

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
Sicelin Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 69 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Mark Demarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Wael Jaber	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Sonia Belardo	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 15 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Eddy Soriano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jason Levy	Detective	White male	White male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Joseph Albert	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Dicecco	Sergeant	White male	White transwoman (mtf), 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	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
Salvatore Melore	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
John Espey	Sergeant	White male	Refused female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jason Sanders	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Konti Markvukaj	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Tanya Bucknor	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Ryan Hoffmann	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Mark Ward	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Mark Ward	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christophe Walsh	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Nicholas Ventimiglia	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph Gulotta	Inspector	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Ryan Hoffmann	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Mark Sinatra	Sergeant	White male	White female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brittany Mccarthy	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 76 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daniel Castillo	Detective	Hispanic male	White female, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Robert Lenihan	Police Officer	White male	White female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Angel Thevenin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused female, 73 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Robert Lenihan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Angel Andujar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Shibu Madhu	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Gabriel Cuevas	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Henry Daverin	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Paul Kogan	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Delores Mitchell	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Henry Daverin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Ching Nieh	Detective	Hispanic male	White female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Edward Guzik	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 67 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Charles Buglione	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daniel Castillo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Steven Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Bernard Corso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Peter Ahn	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Felix Garcia	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Edwin Soto	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Julio Meyreles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Shane Killilea	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Felix Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Thomas Skobla	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joel Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kerine Bunsie	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Joseph Signorile	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
David Mercado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Herbert Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph Gulotta	Inspector	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Luis Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 72 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Sergeant	White male	White female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Nicholas Rios	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Elmer Pastran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Frank Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kathryn Ellison	Police Officer	White female	White male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Brian Volpi	Police Officer	White male	White female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Omar Habib	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2016
Emilio Ortega	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Louis Villegas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Lamont Kirkland	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Anthony Donato	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Scott Zeitler	Police Officer	White male	White male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Marcel Francis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Ardolino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Michael Ardolino	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Wilmar Mejia	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kevan Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kirth Buckley	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 75 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Greg Desideri	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Anis Nikocevic	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mike Civil	Detective	Black male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kristy Abbasciano	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Yaris Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Lukasz Organistka	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Christophe Mcdonald	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Derek Webber	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kevin Mockel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Michael Greaney	Detective	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Tulio Camejo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Walter Valentin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Michael Cappellano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Arpan Das	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 50 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Philip Tsang	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mercedes Conejo	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Jean Francisco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Diana Pichardo	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Barbara Miguel	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015

‹ Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 14 15 Next ›

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.