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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eddy Soriano | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Daniel Hill | Sergeant | White male | White male, 66 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Kevin Maloney | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Dwayne Dawkins | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2016 |
| Robert Barnett | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Phawn Butler | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 50 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Dwayne Dawkins | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Steven Moran | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Scott Cote | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Tyler Ehrlein | Sergeant | White male | Unknown male | Substantiated (Charges) | 2016 |
| Elvis Badia | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Kenny Maldonado | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Tyler Ehrlein | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Minh Tran | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Tyler Ehrlein | Sergeant | White male | Unknown male | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Dennis Westbrook | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Rafael Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 56 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2016 |
| Tony Cuoco | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Omar Habib | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Wilson Verdesoto | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Diana Hoyt | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Diana Hoyt | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Dean Campbell | Detective | Black male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Ahsan Zafar | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Minh Tran | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Minh Tran | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Daniel Callinan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 56 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Tony Cuoco | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Orlando Sanchez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Anibal Torres | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Mandeep Singh | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Bryn Stayfer | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic male, 56 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Ruben Alvarez | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Victor Charles | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
| Belinda Delgado | Detective | Hispanic female | Black female, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
| John Ryan | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Robert Hawreluk | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Henry Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| John Ryan | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Henry Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Oscar Nunez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Victor Pagan | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
| Fidel Rosario | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Fidel Rosario | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Fidel Rosario | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Daniel Sjoberg | Detective | White male | Black male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Daniel Manetta | Police Officer | White male | Not available , 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Manetta | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Manetta | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Alex Cruz | Detective | Hispanic male | White male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Michael Demonda | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| James Lukeson | Police Officer | White male | White male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Lawrence Thomas | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| David Poggioli | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Nicholas Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Andrew Logatto | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Andrew Logatto | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Nicholas Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Salahudin Clark | Detective | Black male | Black male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Nicholas Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Gina Mestre | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic male | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Brian Nelson | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 55 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Christophe Crain | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Jerry Sukhnandan | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Lamont Gibson | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 13 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Malachi Mckenith | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 13 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Ernesto Bautista | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Lamont Gibson | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Connor Lichte | Police Officer | White male | White male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jose Caban | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Daniel Campbell | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Sean Keegan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Leon Pedigo | Police Officer | White male | Unknown not described, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Andrew Logatto | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Vincent Tulipano | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Ashleigh Sofia | Sergeant | White female | Unknown male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Jose Tejada | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Richard Browne | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Darren Sukennikoff | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Oliver Castillo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black female, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Jose Villafane | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Andrew Logatto | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Carlos Santiago | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Chad Hofsiss | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Stephen Santoro | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Richard Aseng | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Unknown not described | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Mayko Matos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Alexander Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Carlos Santiago | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christian Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Wilfredo Benitez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Joby Thomas | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic female, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Gerard Walker | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic female, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Joby Thomas | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Jose Collazo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Louis Villegas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
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.