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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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: Search (Of Person)

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
1,332
Complaints
1,708
Allegations
2,047

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
Rosa Gonzaleznoa Detective Hispanic female White female, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Maritza Garay Sergeant Hispanic female Black male, 61 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Harish Mansharamani Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Joel Polichron Detective White male Hispanic male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Christophe Williams Police Officer Black male White male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Mannese Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 48 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Daniel Mufaddi Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Unknown male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Bryan Rothwell Police Officer White male Other Race male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Leandro Castro Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Antonio Santana Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Paul Prendergast Sergeant White male Black male, 58 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Wilson Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Scott Sanseverino Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Christophe Morris Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Leon Pedigo Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2011
Timothy Rizzo Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Justin Puccia Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Luke Denesopolis Sergeant White male Refused male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Alexandra Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 45 years old Exonerated 2011
Anthony Donato Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jonathan Kalman Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Starlin Dominguez Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Francisco Guzman Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Carlos Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Frank Galati Detective White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Hubert Vandewerp Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Daniel Cea Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Alexandra Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 64 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Luis Santiago Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 36 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Paul Brauer Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Larry Meyers Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2011
Daniel Beddows Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Ahsan Zafar Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Timothy Brown Sergeant White male White female, 51 years old Exonerated 2011
Jared Tepperman Detective White male Black male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Roberto Suarez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Terrell Anderson Sergeant Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jared Fox Police Officer White male Black male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Carlos Viera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Welington Feliz Lieutenant Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Kevin Levenstein Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Michael Smith Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Canisius Xavier Police Officer Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Frank Muirhead Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Jolene Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Matthew Lombardo Police Officer White male Black male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Mack Lipinski Detective White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Ching Nieh Detective Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Timothy Rogers Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2011
Eric Beckel Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Yuriy Akopov Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Aleksandr Kovalenko Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
James Giamboi Police Officer White male Black male, 48 years old Exonerated 2011
Christophe Hebert Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Andrew Erato Detective White male Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Michael Friedman Detective White male White male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Cronin Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Kevin Mulhern Police Officer White male Other Race male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Vitaliy Zelikov Sergeant White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Martin Toczek Sergeant White male Black female, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Greg Vallerugo Sergeant White male Black male, 35 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Thomas Dunsing Detective White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Miguel Frias Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Greg Vallerugo Sergeant White male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Carlos Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 26 years old Exonerated 2011
Christophe Lipton Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Manolin Molina Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Darryl Chen Police Officer Black male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Patrick Davis Lieutenant White male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Franky Joseph Police Officer Black male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Patrick Davis Lieutenant White male Not available male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Albert Rodriguez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2011
Bryan Pocalyko Sergeant White male Black male, 14 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Paul Brauer Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Blase Mucciariello Police Officer White male Black male, 13 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Smith Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Fahmy Detective White male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Tyler Ehrlein Detective White male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
David Nisthaus Lieutenant Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Franky Joseph Police Officer Black male Black male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Sasha Rosen Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Winston Willabus Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Albert Aronov Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Daniel Sjoberg Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Gellison Flores Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Gary Calhoun Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Michele Herbst Police Officer White female Not available female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Marlon Bethel Police Officer Black male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Joseph Redner Police Officer White male Black male, 43 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Julio Meyreles Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Arsenio Camilo Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Michael Raso Sergeant White male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Joseph Stynes Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
James Williams Detective White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jelson Goyco Detective Hispanic male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jelson Goyco Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Sasha Rosen Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
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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