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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
Merlyn Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Jessica Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Joseph Deck	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Christophe Kerbis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
James Cleary	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2009
Denise Moroney	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Daniel Campbell	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jennifer Brown	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
John Hall	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Sandy Polanco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jason Rubenstein	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian female, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Jose Santory	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jose Collazo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Francis Bryant	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Stanley Przedwiecki	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Blake Sydlo	Police Officer	White male	White male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2009
Brian Ohanlon	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2009
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
Oscar Fernandez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Jennifer Mugford	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2009
Daniel Oconnell	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Eric Konoski	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joseph Abdelmessih	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Jonathan Lovera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Timothy Skretch	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2009
Timothy Skretch	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2009
Erika Espaillat	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Wilson Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 65 years old	Exonerated	2009
Donald Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Lyndon Providence	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Charesse Davis	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Monica Delvalle	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Angel Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Nicholas Scalzo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Christian Addison	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jason Fritz	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Sean Mchugh	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2009
Francis Clough	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2009
Juan Ventura	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Albert Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2009
Resembric Altamar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2009
Joseph Azevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2009
Juby Thomas	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Daniel Zollo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Trevor Baronette	Detective	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Derco	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jorge Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Jason Cira	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Willip Chen	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Darren Melhado	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Frank Laquidara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Shawn Johnston	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Michael Boehm	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Louis Gerlach	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Ryan Habermehl	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2009
Joseph Swicicki	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Iacovides	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Brian Holshek	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2009
William Tergesen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Javier Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Stephen Schoefer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2009
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2009
Wilson Quiles	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Danny Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Johnny Orellana	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2009
James Dengate	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Brian Donoghue	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ricardo Moreno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2009
Howard Zweben	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Eric Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Dmitry Durets	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2009
Kevin Deleon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Christopher McCormack	Captain	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Charles Awani	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Robert Nugent	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Petr Janak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Robert Kelly	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Alvin Gomez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Roberto Cordero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Burt Antoine	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jorge Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
Christophe Dede	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
James Trapasso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2009
Radoslaw Terepka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Matthew Fried	Police Officer	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mackenson Nelson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Waziri Rumala	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Waziri Rumala	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Victor Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2009

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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.