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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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: 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
Alexander Lopez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Lamont Gibson Sergeant Black male Not available , 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Natalie Roman Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2017
Stephen Ennis Police Officer White male White male, 22 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Nikolaos Stefopoulos Sergeant White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2017
Rashied Mcintyre Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 34 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
John Gergis Police Officer White male White male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Elijah Austin Police Officer Black male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2017
Alexander Lopez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Triston Trunk Police Officer Hispanic male Not available , 37 years old Exonerated 2017
Nicholas Smith Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
George Isabel Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 49 years old Exonerated 2017
Jose Cordero Police Officer Hispanic male Black male Exonerated 2017
Joseph Campbell Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2017
Mark Holder Detective Black male Hispanic male, 39 years old Exonerated 2017
Sajit Tomy Police Officer Asian male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2017
George Isabel Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 49 years old Exonerated 2017
Jonathan Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Steven Ramunno Detective White male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2017
Sajit Tomy Police Officer Asian male Black male Exonerated 2017
Tyler Ryan Police Officer White male Unknown male Unsubstantiated 2017
David Poggioli Lieutenant White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
David Poggioli Lieutenant White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Steven Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 44 years old Exonerated 2017
Christine Oakley Police Officer Black female Black male Exonerated 2017
David Poggioli Lieutenant White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Byran Pitts Detective Black male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2017
Jermaine Scott Police Officer Black male Black male, 12 years old Exonerated 2017
David Poggioli Lieutenant White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Nelson Ayala Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Saquoi Harris Police Officer Black male Asian male, 44 years old Exonerated 2017
Hassan Gheith Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Frank Ryan Police Officer White male Other Race male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Matthew Shaw Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2017
Gabriel Cuadros Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 34 years old Exonerated 2017
Hassan Gheith Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Exonerated 2017
Scott Lieneck Detective White male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2017
Tyler Ryan Police Officer White male Refused male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Daniel Gasperetti Detective White male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2017
Pasquale Dethomas Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Matthew Shaw Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Alexander Lopez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Pasquale Dethomas Police Officer White male Black male, 13 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Joseph Reyes Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Christophe Greiner Detective White male Hispanic male, 37 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Joseph Campbell Police Officer White male White male, 22 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Brian Doherty Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2017
Satinderpa Singh Police Officer Asian male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Malachi Mckenith Police Officer Black male Black male, 13 years old Exonerated 2017
Alexander Caruso Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Jeffrey Liu Sergeant Asian male Not available female Unsubstantiated 2017
Jeffrey Liu Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 32 years old Exonerated 2017
Hassan Gheith Police Officer White male White female, 24 years old Exonerated 2017
Hassan Gheith Police Officer White male White male, 22 years old Exonerated 2017
Michael Becker Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Sicelin Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 45 years old Exonerated 2017
James Ludvick Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Alexander Lopez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 48 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Bryan Scheblein Police Officer White male Black female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
David Grieco Sergeant White male Other Race male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Yaritza Casul Police Officer Hispanic female Black male Exonerated 2017
Michael Becker Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Edwin Lau Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 17 years old Exonerated 2017
Nicholas Kane Police Officer White male Unknown male, 16 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Patrick Jean Police Officer Black male Black male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Malachi Mckenith Police Officer Black male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2017
Phillip Pena Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 13 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
John Massari Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 27 years old Exonerated 2017
Phillip Pena Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Christophe Mcdonald Police Officer Black male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2017
Andreas Sargent Police Officer Black male Unknown male, 19 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Mordecai Austrie Police Officer Black male Black female, 35 years old Exonerated 2017
Rudy Anzalone Detective White male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Louis Guglielmo Sergeant White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Juan Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Erick Flores Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Gonzalez Detective Hispanic male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2017
Ronald Remo Police Officer Asian male Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Daniel Boylan Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Daniel Mckeefrey Sergeant White male Asian male, 23 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Christophe Mcdonald Police Officer Black male Unknown male, 19 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Daniel Shaw Police Officer Black male White male, 45 years old Exonerated 2017
Duane Percy Detective Black male Black female, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Andrew Logatto Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Aleksandr Pasynkov Sergeant White male White male, 34 years old Exonerated 2017
Lamont Gibson Sergeant Black male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Elmer Pastran Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 49 years old Exonerated 2017
Gregory Kennedy Detective Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Becker Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Carlos Corporan Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 55 years old Exonerated 2017
Antonio Andrade Police Officer White male White male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Gabriel Cuevas Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2018
Christophe Chin Police Officer Black male Not available male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Kevin Kenny Lieutenant White male Unknown male, 20 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2018
Renaldo Weekes Police Officer Black male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2018
Steve Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 18 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2018
Robert Giery Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 51 years old Exonerated 2018
Thomas Mccue Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 51 years old Exonerated 2018
Christophe Lembo Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Sheila Ramos Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
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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