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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Ticali | Detective | American Indian male | Other Race male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
| Barry Stokes | Police Officer | American Indian male | Black male, 67 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
| Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 14 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
| Ronald Remo | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| James Donovan | Detective | Asian male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2013 |
| Siu Lam | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
| Mohamadyah Patwekar | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 12 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
| Daniel Song | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
| Ronald Remo | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Aman Rana | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
| Jeffrey Liu | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Leechau Wai | Police Officer | Asian male | Refused not described, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 60 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
| Brian Chow | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2008 |
| Lauren Au | Police Officer | Asian female | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Minh Tran | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Shibu Madhu | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Mandeep Singh | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
| Karanlall Brijbukhan | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
| Zeeshan Munawar | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
| Sajit Tomy | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Canisius Xavier | Police Officer | Asian male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
| Waqas Shabir | Police Officer | Asian male | Unknown male, 14 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Jeffrey Liu | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available female | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Mcilrath | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Paul Polintan | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Jose Velasquez | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Mizbah Noor | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
| Raymond Ip | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
| Donald Lee | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
| James Lee | Lieutenant | Asian male | Black female, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Amanjeet Sandhu | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
| Juby Thomas | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 47 years old | Substantiated (No Recommendations) | 2009 |
| Stephen Lalchan | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
| Eric Pena | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
| Shibu Madhu | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Brian Raghoenathsingh | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Mobeen Yasin | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Ahsan Zafar | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Michael Furrs | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
| Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2013 |
| Waliur Rahman | Detective | Asian male | Black female, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
| Vincent Chow | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
| Sajit Tomy | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Sajit Tomy | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Michael Park | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2007 |
| Jeff Torreda | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
| Faisal Ejaz | Police Officer | Asian male | Unknown male, 14 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
| Waqas Shabir | Police Officer | Asian male | Unknown male, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Je Chai | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
| Jonathan Trossi | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 14 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
| Zul Chowdhury | Police Officer | Asian male | Other Race male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
| Malcolm Liu | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
| Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
| Sajit Tomy | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Sajit Tomy | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Glenn Ziminski | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
| Glenn Ziminski | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
| Donald Climaco | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 15 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
| Jonathan Hom | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Hassan Raza | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Taejoong Kim | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Edwin Ching | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Jaspreet Gill | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Satinderpa Singh | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Shilendra Sawh | Police Officer | Asian male | Black female, 66 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Melchor Alban | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 59 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
| Minh Tran | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Minh Tran | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Minh Tran | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Timothy Finn | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Suhail Sofizada | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
| Tony Chacko | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 50 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
| Eric Pena | Police Officer | Asian male | Refused male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
| Willip Chen | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 47 years old | Substantiated (No Recommendations) | 2009 |
| Donald Climaco | Police Officer | Asian male | Other Race male, 13 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Brian Raghoenathsingh | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Dhanan Saminath | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Qamar Zaman | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
| George Huang | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2007 |
| Daniel Song | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
| Ahsan Zafar | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
| Joby Thomas | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Joby Thomas | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic female, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Shoumendra Nandy | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
| Franklin Pierrelouis | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 52 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
| Patrick Jean | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Emilio Aponte | Police Officer | Black male | Black male | Exonerated | 2007 |
| Michael Mitchell | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2013 |
| Deangelo Jones | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 58 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Michael Mitchell | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
| Brenton Cole | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
| Torrel Rowesingleton | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 60 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
| Brenton Cole | Police Officer | Black male | Refused male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
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.