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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Gregory Long Sergeant White male Black female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Derek Epstein Sergeant White male Asian female, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Salvatore Tevere Police Officer White male Other Race male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Hector Justinico Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Yaris Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 39 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
Alexi Serpani Sergeant White male White male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Darnell Forrester Police Officer Black male Black male, 67 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Elizabeth Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 16 years old Exonerated 2015
Kirth Buckley Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 75 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Bryan Scheblein Police Officer White male Refused male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Gabriel Baaith Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 37 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Mark Sinatra Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 39 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Dwight Powell Police Officer Black male Refused male, 30 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
Danny Aguilar Sergeant Hispanic male Unknown female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Max Rolffot Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
John Mcloughlin Police Officer White male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Matthew Escudero Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Juan Moreno Detective Hispanic male Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Terrence Howard Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
James Burpoe Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Ishmael Bailey Police Officer Black male Black female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Parks Detective Black male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Gagliardi Police Officer White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Jason Greenberg Police Officer White male Black male, 66 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Alan Rosenthal Police Officer White male Black male, 48 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Mathew Reich Detective White male White male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Ardolino Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Mccaffrey Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Christophe Ward Sergeant White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Robert Graves Detective White male Black female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Scott Hamburger Sergeant White male Black male, 40 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2014
Willie Artiles Detective Hispanic male Black male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Corey Gresko Detective White male Black female, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Robert Clark Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 44 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2014
Efrain Rojas Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 47 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Derek Sambolin Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Edward Stackpole Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2014
Brian Schulman Police Officer White male Other Race male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Gregory Kennedy Police Officer Black male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Ludwig Narcisse Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Christophe Devaney Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Robert Ciolino Detective White male Black female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Mauvin Bute Lieutenant Black male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Justin Prieto Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
John Zamot Detective Hispanic male Black female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Carlos Lozada Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Joseph Cruzado Sergeant White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Fruchter Police Officer White male White male, 47 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2014
William Brown Police Officer White male Black female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Alejandro Valderrama Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Robert Hesterhagen Police Officer White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Orlando Sanchez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 23 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Daryl Melhado Sergeant Black male White female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
James Giamboi Police Officer White male Unknown male, 32 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Christophe Cantelmi Lieutenant White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Anthony Lee Police Officer Black male Black female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
John Albertelli Sergeant White male Black female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Miriam Lasso Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Kevin Devine Sergeant White male Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Dean Campbell Detective Black male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Juan Guzman Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 65 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Larry Dunn Detective Black male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Martin Costello Sergeant White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Frank Danzi Police Officer White male White female, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
William Schumacher Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
David Marconi Detective White male White male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Kevin Breen Lieutenant White male Black female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
William Ditomaso Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Je Chai Police Officer Asian male Hispanic female, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Butler Police Officer White male Black male, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Harish Mansharamani Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Louis Marinacci Police Officer White male Unknown male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Ronald Bolte Lieutenant White male Unknown male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Juan Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Richard Ernyey Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Christophe Muller Sergeant White male Black male, 35 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Ramon Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 49 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Patrick Sullivan Police Officer White male Black female, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Eduardo Vite Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Hassan Raza Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Richard Guerrieri Police Officer White male Other Race male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Stephen Lalchan Police Officer Asian male Black male, 40 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Steven Acevedo Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 38 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2014
Brian Christen Police Officer White male Black female, 64 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
William Morris Police Officer White male Black female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Travis Brinson Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Francesco Cusimano Police Officer White male White male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Aman Rana Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Lydell Boyd Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Keith Chatterton Police Officer White male Black female, 36 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
David Leonardi Sergeant White male Black male, 62 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Genti Bektashaj Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Jonathan Glazer Police Officer White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Jhonnier Salazar Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Mitchell Police Officer Black male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Derrick Kreckmann Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Lawrence Perrotta Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Fitzroy Vigilance Sergeant Black male Black male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Adnan Radoncic Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Aaron Edwards Sergeant Black male Hispanic male, 45 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
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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