Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

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
Nikolaos Stefopoulos Sergeant White male White male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Dwayne Dawkins Police Officer Black male Unknown male Exonerated 2016
Jose Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2016
Tony Cuoco Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
David Mercado Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2016
Dwayne Dawkins Police Officer Black male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2016
Frederic Ortiz Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Lawrence Bettex Sergeant White male White male, 46 years old Exonerated 2016
Christian Allen Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Miguel Frias Sergeant Hispanic male Unknown male Unsubstantiated 2016
Shawn Phillips Police Officer White male Unknown male, 23 years old Exonerated 2016
Miguel Frias Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Julio Meyreles Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 46 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Taejoong Kim Police Officer Asian male Asian male, 45 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Scott Cote Detective White male Hispanic male, 46 years old Exonerated 2016
Coty Green Police Officer Black male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Joel Ayala Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Michael Carrieri Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Derek Barreto Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic female, 22 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Tony Cuoco Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2016
Scott Cote Detective White male Hispanic male, 51 years old Exonerated 2016
Matthew Cahill Sergeant White male Black male Unsubstantiated 2016
Ronald Humphrey Police Officer Black male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Rafael Morales Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 56 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2016
Patrick Cahill Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Nelson Figueroa Detective Hispanic male Refused female, 28 years old Exonerated 2016
Domingo Arjona Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 26 years old Exonerated 2016
Michael Ashford Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Daniel Hill Sergeant White male White male, 66 years old Exonerated 2016
Daniel Callinan Police Officer White male Black male, 54 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Vicente Vivar Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 39 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Ronald Humphrey Police Officer Black male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2016
Felix Baez Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male Unsubstantiated 2016
John Ryan Lieutenant White male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2016
John Ryan Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 16 years old Exonerated 2016
Robert Hesterhagen Police Officer White male White transwoman (mtf), 44 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
George Taylor Sergeant White male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Michael Becker Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2016
Christophe Schlitt Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Gary Leite Police Officer White male White transwoman (mtf), 44 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Daniel Callinan Police Officer White male Black male, 56 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Elvis Duran Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male Unsubstantiated 2016
John Parente Sergeant White male Black male, 51 years old Exonerated 2016
John Parente Sergeant White male Black male, 48 years old Exonerated 2016
Bekim Kalicovic Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Exonerated 2016
Morgan Sprague Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Konti Markvukaj Police Officer White male Not available male Exonerated 2016
Omar Birchwood Sergeant Black male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2016
Michael Bletcher Sergeant Black male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Phawn Butler Police Officer Black female Black male, 50 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Carlos Pimentel Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 22 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Robert Barnett Sergeant White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2016
Jose Moreno Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 11 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2016
Konti Markvukaj Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Erik Depasquale Sergeant White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2016
Carlos Pimentel Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2016
Juan Candelario Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Carlos Felipe Lieutenant Hispanic male Unknown male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Terrance Smalls Police Officer Black male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Albert Castillo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2016
Vincent Fontana Sergeant White male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2016
Joseph Hartnett Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 54 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Minh Tran Sergeant Asian male Not available male, 28 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Joseph Hartnett Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 56 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Sajit Tomy Police Officer Asian male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Patrick Cahill Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Paul Kearon Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Minh Tran Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Vincent Fontana Sergeant White male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2016
Dervent Williams Sergeant Black male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Rudy Anzalone Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 16 years old Exonerated 2016
Minh Tran Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 22 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Sajit Tomy Police Officer Asian male White male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Jose Velasquez Police Officer Asian male White male, 38 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Mario Morales Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Angelo Pizzarro Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 19 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Minh Tran Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Jose Moreno Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2016
Miguel Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2016
Michael Laborde Police Officer Black male Black male, 44 years old Exonerated 2016
William Dugan Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Sajit Tomy Police Officer Asian male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Dmitry Brush Sergeant White male Black male, 17 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Dmitry Brush Sergeant White male White female, 17 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Dennis Westbrook Police Officer Black male Black male, 22 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Rafal Korycki Police Officer White male Not available male Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Steven Moran Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Steven Moran Police Officer Hispanic male Asian female, 38 years old Exonerated 2016
Dmitry Brush Sergeant White male Unknown male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Steven Moran Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
James Reilly Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Oscar Nunez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Andres Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Oscar Nunez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Ahsan Zafar Police Officer Asian male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Dana Ladson Police Officer Black male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2016
Dmitry Brush Sergeant White male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Nikolaos Stefopoulos Sergeant White male Not available male, 45 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Stephen Schoefer Sergeant White male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2016
Diana Hoyt Police Officer White female Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2016
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.
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