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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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Kristopher Martin | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Joseph Deck | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Shawn Johnston | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
Dany Fana | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Michael Gonzalez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Alexander Bobo | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Jason Rubenstein | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian female, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Alexander Bobo | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Troy Peacock | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
John Hall | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Glenn Ziminski | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Orvin Feliciano | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Jarrett Dill | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Joseph Abdelmessih | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Joshua Konen | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Richard Urena | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
Thomas Fabrizi | Police Officer | White male | White male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Steven Gansrow | Detective | White male | Black female, 51 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Louis Gerlach | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Mark Oconnell | Detective | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Juan Quiroz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 47 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Robert Kelly | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Eric Delman | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Michael Boehm | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Jose Cintron | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Frank Altieri | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Exonerated | 2008 |
Fernando Centenotalavera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Justin Ellis | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2008 |
Felix Delcarpio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Roberson Tunis | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Johnny Lawrence | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Michael Rhome | Police Officer | White male | White female, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Nicholas Vandyke | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Nino Lama | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Scott Martin | Detective | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Oghenevigh Okrokoto | Detective | Black male | White male, 54 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Wayman Manning | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Michael White | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
William Waldron | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Joseph Peragallo | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Eli Slavkin | Police Officer | White male | White male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Wilmar Mejia | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Patrick Kennedy | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Patrick Kennedy | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Aldo Yubini | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Gennaro Russo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Brian Query | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Francisco Ponce | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Howard Zweben | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2008 |
Florencio Arquer | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Anthony Lustica | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Frank Galati | Detective | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Frank Bulzoni | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Daniel Staple | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Daniel Staple | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Catherine Thomas | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
James Mahoney | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Florencio Arquer | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Mack Lipinski | Police Officer | White male | White male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Christophe Esposito | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Jason Forgione | Detective | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Michael Burbridge | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Jorge Rodriguez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Brian Chow | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2008 |
Andrew Erato | Detective | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Shaun Odonnell | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Frank Monge | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Gary Messina | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Cesar Gomez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Michael Raso | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2008 |
Shawn Gallagher | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Juan Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Steven Weiss | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Nathan Mole | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Jennifer Laskykuehn | Police Officer | White female | Black female, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Jeremy Veit | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Michael Moyer | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Miguel Leon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 80 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Glenn Ziminski | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Lissette Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 58 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Franklin Pierrelouis | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 52 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Bryan Zuccaro | Detective | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Gerald Cucchiara | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2008 |
Marlon Wright | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Joseph Schwaner | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Anthony Armetta | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Andre Figueiredo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Michael Pellegrin | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Maribel Burgos | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Jaime Arroyo | Detective | Hispanic male | White male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Dino Tamayo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Damon Martin | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Andrew Hunt | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Andrew Hunt | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Dennis Ferrer | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 54 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Damon Martin | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Nelson Garcia | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Karanlall Brijbukhan | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
James Williams | Detective | White male | White male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Christophe Pasquale | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
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.