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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Spencer Strauss Police Officer White male Other Race female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Brian Manning Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2013
David Sullivan Police Officer White male White male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Thomas Lodico Detective White male Black male, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Robert Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Thomas Mccue Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Demetrios Kekatos Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 38 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Rosa Gonzaleznoa Detective Hispanic female Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Fredy Cruz Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Philip Picciano Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 65 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Kirth Buckley Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Craig Victorino Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jose Sandoval Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Eliot Arias Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Nercida Cepeda Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Michael Rivera Detective Hispanic male Refused male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Alberto Pizarro Detective Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
James Wilson Police Officer White male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Amjad Kasaji Detective White male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Michelle Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Miguel Marte Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Kenneth Douglas Police Officer Black male Refused female, 21 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Eric Konoski Sergeant White male Black female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Timothy Brovakos Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jacob Giannelli Police Officer White male Asian female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Erick Flores Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Jesus Capo Detective Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
James Picicci Detective White male Black female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Patrick Hennessy Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Felix Concepcion Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Lynn Ruger Police Officer White female Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Anthony Lamberti Police Officer White male White male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Shartisia Steward Police Officer Black female Black male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Johnpaul Slater Detective White male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
John Hopkins Lieutenant White male Black male, 63 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christophe Smith Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Frank Calafiore Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Esperanza Visbal Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 57 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2012
Erick Flores Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 70 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Kishon Hickman Sergeant Black male Hispanic male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
David Savella Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Paul Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christophe Greiner Detective White male Hispanic male, 46 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Robert Mayer Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Thomas Reo Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Dominick Vasaturo Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Demonda Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Kalifa Diomande Police Officer Black male White male, 50 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Chris Palmeri Police Officer White male Black male, 51 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Bruce Ceparano Sergeant White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2012
Winston Willabus Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Angel Delgado Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Vincent Dima Police Officer White male Black female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Jensen Dayle Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Geraldi Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2012
Elijah Austin Police Officer Black male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christophe Muller Sergeant White male White female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christophe Siani Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Bryan Polster Police Officer White male Black female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Angel Reyes Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 57 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2012
Aaron Lohman Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Rosa Soto Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 41 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
David Marconi Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Ahmed Abdalla Police Officer Black male Other Race male, 51 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Andrew Hayes Police Officer White male Black female, 49 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Frank Sarrica Detective Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Jared Tepperman Detective White male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Alban Kalaj Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Edward Carrasco Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Wilding Aguasanta Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Stephen Penaranda Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christophe Capone Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Konrad Zakiewicz Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Jude Sciarillo Sergeant White male Black female, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Pitkewicz Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Stacey Ellis Police Officer Black female White female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Greg Desideri Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 48 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Alberto Angilletta Detective White male Hispanic male, 46 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Robert Simms Detective Black male Black female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Nelson Nin Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 42 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Brian Query Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Ivelisse Rodriguez Detective Hispanic female Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Pedro Bobe Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Ronald Pereira Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Hemadeh Fattah Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Hemadeh Fattah Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Domingo Arjona Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 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
Henry Daverin Police Officer White male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Tarulli Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joseph Gartner Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Rebecca Guzman Police Officer Hispanic female White male, 43 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Matthew Lewis Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Matthew Mozdziak Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Richard Thompson Detective White male White female, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Derek Sambolin Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Alexis Fernandez Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Timothy Rogers Sergeant White male Black male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Benjamin Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
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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