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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
Alban Kalaj	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Johnpaul Slater	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jose Collazo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Imperatrice	Sergeant	White male	White male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Bruce Ceparano	Sergeant	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rebecca Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Dominick Vasaturo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Paul Scocca	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Chris Palmeri	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	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
Esperanza Visbal	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2012
Jared Tepperman	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Imperatrice	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Eric Bolger	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Pomerantz	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jason Greenberg	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jared Tepperman	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Hebert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Weldon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Seth Lynch	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mack Lipinski	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Barreto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Kevin Murphy	Detective	White male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Devin Long	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Zeeshan Munawar	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Devin Long	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kenneth Metten	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Weldon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Jonathan Troncoso	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Sandy Polanco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 61 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
James Picicci	Detective	White male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Brian Ilund	Detective	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Imperatrice	Sergeant	White male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Mcgee	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Pablo Penaherrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Adnan Radoncic	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jose Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Mazzola	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Julio Meyreles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eduardo Vite	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Edwin Estrada	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Elvis Duran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Emmanuel Kwo	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Byran Pitts	Detective	Black male	Black male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Arsenio Camilo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Martin Gimenez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Wilding Aguasanta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Persio Polanco	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Rafael Figueroa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Desmund Nichols	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
John Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Roman Goris	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jennifer Cittadino	Police Officer	White female	Asian female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Leon Pedigo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ricardo Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Merani Rotte	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Alexis Dejesus	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Denise Moroney	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Wilfredo Benitez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Justin Simms	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Juan Moreno	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jared Fox	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2011
Constantin Moutopoulos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Robert Locher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Redmond	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Lampert	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Joseph Gulotta	Captain	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Paul Brauer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Terrell Anderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Katie Cozetti	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Scott Sanseverino	Police Officer	White male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Steven Lopez	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Malcolm Liu	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mark Brinadze	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Darren Melhado	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Shareen Grant	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Blase Mucciariello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
John Bastedenbeck	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Leandro Castro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
John Zamot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eugene Choi	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Peragallo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Brian Farrelly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Klaebergh Carvajal	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011

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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.