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Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Arrest
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
130
Complaints
120
Allegations
147
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 |
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Edward Mcbride | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 1997 |
Steven Hearns | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Louis Aponte | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Darren King | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Paul Pizzuta | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Mario Morales | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Robert Corbett | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
Michael Ernst | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Frank Sarrica | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Mario Morales | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
David Demelia | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Risel Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
Ronald Remo | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
Steven Hearns | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Justin Delmonico | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 15 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Steven Hearns | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Roberto Melendez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Scott Henderson | Captain | Black male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Norman Grandstaff | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Davon Alston | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Jason Korpolinski | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
Frank Santiago | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Steven Green | Captain | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Garry Lamour | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Eloy Sanchez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 13 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Daniel Callinan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 54 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
Brian Ramirez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 15 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
John Ferrara | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Reuben Antwi | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Tyler Ehrlein | Detective | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Joseph Gartner | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Jose Cadavid | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 49 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Abraham Badillo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Thomas Gagliardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Brett Allen | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Robert Smith | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Peter Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
John Gogarty | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (No Recommendations) | 2009 |
Edward Reardon | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 13 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Isa Abbassi | Sergeant | White male | Black male | Exonerated | 2003 |
Daniel Fitzpatrick | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
Daniel Fitzpatrick | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
Matthew Monahan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Nino Lama | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Louis Guglielmo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
Wilson Verdesoto | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Yasmin Hicks | Police Officer | Black female | Black female, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Christophe Cunha | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2000 |
Willie Artiles | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 52 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Sean Mccarthy | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Trifon Anagnostos | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Freddy Dominguez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Christophe Lawrence | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Javier Valentin | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Juan Santiago | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Fernando Espindola | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 40 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Timothy Heines | Detective | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Joseph Campbell | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Neil Zuber | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Joseph Hartnett | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 54 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
Lynn Ruger | Police Officer | White female | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Malachi Mckenith | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 13 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
Michael Catusco | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2001 |
Bruno Pierre | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Raymond Festino | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Andrew Bershad | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Kenneth Ayala | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Keith Chatterton | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2005 |
Robert Romano | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Efrain Rojas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 47 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
William Higgins | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Taina Pacheco | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
Jacobo Garay | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2010 |
John Ryan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
John Zorrilla | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Angel Delgado | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black female, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Genner Gomez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 13 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Damon Martin | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Jonathan Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jonathan Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Jonathan Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Henry Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Michael Shugrue | Deputy Inspector | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Michael Shugrue | Deputy Inspector | White male | Black male, 73 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Nico Hewitt | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Mario Bueno | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
Richard Warner | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Richard Warner | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Barbara Fischer | Sergeant | White female | Black female, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Nelson Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Lanier Glenn | Lieutenant | Black male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Lanier Glenn | Lieutenant | Black male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
William Glynn | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Anthony Anglisano | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Paul Chierico | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Luis Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Ramiro Burgarelli | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Emile Provencher | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Patrick Cortright | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
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.