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Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons
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
263
Complaints
266
Allegations
291
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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Deodat Urprasad | Lieutenant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Eumir Ferrer | Police Officer | Asian male | Black female, 39 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Deodat Urprasad | Lieutenant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Edwin Ching | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Suhail Sofizada | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Amanjeet Sandhu | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Philip Tsang | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Deodat Urprasad | Lieutenant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Deodat Urprasad | Lieutenant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Fazle Tanim | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian male, 39 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2019 |
Mathew Cangro | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Donald Climaco | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 15 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
Tarakur Chowdhury | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
Michael Ingram | Detective | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
Michael Parks | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Samantha Evans | Police Officer | Black female | Black female, 62 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2005 |
Miles Holman | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 22 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Ahmed Abdalla | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Ronald Humphrey | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
Aluthea Caviness | Sergeant | Black male | Asian male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Floretta Chow | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2001 |
Robert Simms | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Ahmed Abdalla | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race male, 51 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Craig Roach | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
Kevon Husband | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
Kelly Maldonado | Police Officer | Black female | White male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Woody Williams | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2005 |
Michael Williams | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Sean Christian | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Kathryn Barry | Police Officer | Black female | Not available female | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Gregory Kennedy | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Donald Alexandre | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Narine Ramlochan | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Graham Brathwaite | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Robert Mainor | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Wesley Campbell | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 59 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2019 |
Clifford Louis | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Dawud Danielbey | Sergeant | Black male | Unknown male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Dmaine Freeland | Police Officer | Black male | White female, 29 years old | Substantiated (No Recommendations) | 2011 |
Lashonda Dyce | Police Officer | Black female | Black female, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Kathryn Barry | Police Officer | Black female | White male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
Bruno Pierre | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Natasha Purrier | Police Officer | Black female | Other Race male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Bruce Solomon | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic female, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Colin Caesar | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Bruce Solomon | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic female, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Clifford Louis | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 51 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2007 |
Arthur Golfphin | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race male, 52 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Gregory Abrahams | Sergeant | Black male | Other Race female, 39 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Gesner Charles | Sergeant | Black male | Unknown male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
Nairobi Grayson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Arthur Golfphin | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
Chanae Martin | Police Officer | Black female | White , 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 1999 |
Ricky Smalls | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 41 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
Tonica Corlette | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Christophe Williams | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2010 |
David Gordon | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
Danny Williams | Police Officer | Black male | Not available male, 60 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2014 |
Marlaine Cleveland | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Tyrone Seely | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
Davon Alston | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Colin Caesar | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Darryl Chen | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 49 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Jermaine Matos | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2004 |
Avis Washington | Sergeant | Black female | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Nathan Mole | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 60 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Numael Amador | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Maribel Burgos | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Alejandro Rivas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available female, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jacqueline Oloughlin | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Alejandro Rivas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Alejandro Rivas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 52 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Jasmine Velez | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
Gipsi Franjul | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 57 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Miguel Frias | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Joel Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Edwin Simon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Michael Barreto | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
Luis Feliciano | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Gilbert Pierrelouis | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Jordan Castro | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Andres Rosario | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Jose Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 49 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Pedro Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Alhadys Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Michael Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 55 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
Kervelin Ramirez | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2003 |
Jordan Lomba | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Johanna Urena | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic female, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Jose Caban | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 68 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Michael Mendez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2013 |
Philip Picciano | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Luis Machado | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2016 |
Hector Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
Domingo Arjona | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Francisco Ponce | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Meglis Grullon | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
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.