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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 |
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Ronald Luparello | Detective | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Victor Robalino | Detective | Hispanic male | White male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
David Leonardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 62 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Sean Mcdonnell | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Richard Ernyey | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Michael Heinz | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Christophe Cruzado | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Adam Dumelle | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Omar Elsayed | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Aaron Edwards | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Juan Hernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Washington Zurita | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | American Indian male, 53 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Robert King | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Carlos Pimentel | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Concepcion Robles | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 37 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Daniel Roman | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2014 |
Hassan Raza | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Shoumendra Nandy | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Bryan Bromley | Police Officer | Black male | Asian male | Exonerated | 2014 |
Brian Coffey | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Salvatore Lopiccolo | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Salvatore Lopiccolo | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Jose Vasquezmiranda | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Tonica Corlette | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Thomas Gagliardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male | Exonerated | 2014 |
Michael Gonzalez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Edwin Ching | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Anton Bartoldus | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Dervent Williams | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
David Leonardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Patrick Craig | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Elijah Boyle | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Julio Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Mario Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Cesar Valerio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
John Anastasakos | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Patrick Norcott | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Cesar Valerio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Derek Webber | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2014 |
David Castro | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Nicholas Ventimiglia | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 60 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 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 |
Sean Claxton | Sergeant | Black male | Unknown male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Eddy Gutierrez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Dane Stcyr | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Barbie Lewis | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Anthony Ronda | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Ryan Puglisi | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Aaron Lohman | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Aaron Lohman | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Michael Granahan | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Marc Fontana | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Elvis Alcivar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Emmanuel Kwo | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Paul Dieugenia | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Tyrane Isaac | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Thomas Mccue | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Michael Mitchell | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2013 |
Jeffrey Carroll | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 72 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Diana Pichardo | Sergeant | Hispanic female | Black male, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Piero Lasaponara | Police Officer | White male | Not available male | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Scott Lieneck | Detective | White male | Unknown male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Torrel Rowesingleton | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 60 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Lisaura Skladel | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Selwyn Fonrose | Detective | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Jose Barbosa | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2013 |
Donald Sehl | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
John Stoltenborg | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Michael Furrs | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Oghenevigh Okrokoto | Detective | Black male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Brian Garay | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Ali Cheikhali | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
James Trapasso | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2013 |
Christophe Ward | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 81 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Wilding Aguasanta | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Erika Schudde | Sergeant | White female | Black female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Francesco Allevato | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2013 |
Zul Chowdhury | Police Officer | Asian male | Other Race male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Jovaniel Cordova | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available male | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jovaniel Cordova | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Michael Smith | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Fredy Cruz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Mourad Mourad | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Maria Bocachica | Detective | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Craig Victorino | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Suhail Sofizada | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Brian Mccaughey | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 13 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Eliot Arias | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Adrian Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 55 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2013 |
William Neville | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Liam Ohara | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Michael Rivera | Detective | Hispanic male | Refused male, 39 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Albert Rodriguez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 58 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Thomas Woods | Detective | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Christophe White | Police Officer | White male | American Indian male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Brian Schulman | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Anthony Panetta | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Tancredo Contreras | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Douglas Lopez | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
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.