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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
Richard Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2012
Lynn Ruger	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Silverio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Kristopher Martin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Lukasz Organistka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ted Holway	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Edwin Aguilar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Nicholas Albano	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
William Reddin	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2012
Robert Simms	Detective	Black male	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Timothy Gaven	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Christophe Moroni	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Nicholas Vandyke	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Barry Stokes	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 67 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Trevor Barton	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
David Grieco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Jose Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Yesenia Velazquez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Joel Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Angel Herran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2012
Michael Espenberg	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Francisco Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Daniel Cea	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Santos Collazo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Senia Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Leandro Castro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Anthony Donato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Frank Dichristina	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Anthony Andino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2011
Rashied Mcintyre	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Victor Rosario	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 62 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Jared Fox	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Max Rolffot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2011
Francis Clough	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Francis Clough	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Philip Rivera	Captain	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2011
Cesar Polanco	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Robert Turbiak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Michael Cintron	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Michael Lennihan	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Darrin Smalls	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2011
Michael Lennihan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2011
Johnpaul Slater	Detective	White male	White male, 71 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Owen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Owen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Derco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Eric Ortega	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Sasha Brugal	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Andrew Kamna	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Yuseff Hamm	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Benson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Joseph Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Brittany Mccarthy	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2011
Henry Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
James Slavin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2011
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Blase Mucciariello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Exonerated	2011
Joey Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Eugene Jonny	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Patrick Davis	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Kelly	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Kelly	Detective	White male	Refused male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Alberto Pizarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2011
Victor Rosario	Detective	Hispanic male	Refused male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Carlin	Detective	White male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2011
Victor Rosario	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Erik Nelson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Persio Polanco	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Edwin Estrada	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Unknown male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Alexis Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Roberson Tunis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Kelvin Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Robert Locher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Meade	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Greg Vallerugo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Harish Mansharamani	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Adam Acosta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Nancy Larrieux	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Eric Francis	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Maritza Garay	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black male, 61 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
James Williams	Detective	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Nicholas Neve	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Robert Mayer	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2011
Joseph Mcevoy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Desmund Nichols	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Jamar Goddard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Willie Johnson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Charles Ingrassia	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011

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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.