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Abuse of Authority: Stop

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

1,473

Complaints

1,701

Allegations

2,300

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
Seth Lynch	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Omar Elsayed	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Haggerty	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Richard Guerrieri	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alejandro Rivas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Hassan Raza	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Heinz	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2014
Bryan Bromley	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male	Exonerated	2014
Brian Coffey	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Elvis Cole	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 63 years old	Exonerated	2014
Alejandro Rivas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
John Anastasakos	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Elijah Boyle	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2014
Aman Rana	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michael Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2014
Jonathan Glazer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jonathan Glazer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2014
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Eugene Jonny	Detective	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Eugene Jonny	Detective	White male	Black male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Eugene Jonny	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Mccaffrey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2014
Carlos Pimentel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Slavin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2014
Dervent Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2014
Anton Bartoldus	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2014
Joseph Imperatrice	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Edward Salthouse	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 63 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Salvatore Lopiccolo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Salvatore Lopiccolo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Donald Sehl	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Edwin Peguero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Simpson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Pamela Benites	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Fredy Cruz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Daryl Melhado	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 67 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
David Castro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Francisco Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Derrick Kreckmann	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2014
Derrick Kreckmann	Police Officer	White male	Not available , 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Angel Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Ryan	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 58 years old	Exonerated	2015
Rudy Anzalone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Zamot	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Leo Bonacasa	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2015
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Julio Lasalle	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Alejandro Valderrama	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
James Dick	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brian Doherty	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 15 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Brian Doherty	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Daniel Gukelberger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
James Slavin	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Frank Kish	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Charlie Harvell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Steven Lopez	Detective	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Jose Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Refused male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2015
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Cesar Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Daniel Song	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
John Mcloughlin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Michael Sogluizzo	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Robert Marshall	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 65 years old	Exonerated	2015
Kishon Hickman	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Dennis Westbrook	Police Officer	Black male	Refused male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Colin Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2015
Juan Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Marco Morrone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Timothy Brown	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Dominick Vasaturo	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
James Williams	Detective	White male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Cleary	Detective	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2015
Darion Francis	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joel Crooms	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Okera Morrison	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Okera Morrison	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Melissa Veliz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Wilmar Mejia	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Dicecco	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Dominic Cappiello	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Jose Tabora	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jose Tabora	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mario Moreno	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Tyler Marshall	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Kyle Glueckert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Eric Jordan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	White male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Jonathan Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jolan Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015

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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.