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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
Stephen Loffredo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Musante	Sergeant	White male	White male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2015
Darnell Forrester	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Melchor Alban	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 59 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Barbara Fischer	Lieutenant	White female	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jose Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mario Moreno	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Michelle Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mario Moreno	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Ian Gallagher	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Stephen Faber	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Jean Francisco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Michael Paulik	Police Officer	White male	White female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2015
Alicja Bobrowska	Detective	White female	White female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Peter Lazare	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Sogluizzo	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Paul White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
John Mcloughlin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Matthew Levy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Matthew Levy	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Paul Kearon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Juan Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Michael Riso	Detective	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Thomas Kelly	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Frankie Soler	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Doreyda Munoz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Ramiro Ruiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Daniel Watson	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Ruben Guerrero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2015
Donald Climaco	Police Officer	Asian male	Other Race male, 13 years old	Exonerated	2015
Domenick Lagomarsine	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Donald Kipp	Sergeant	White male	American Indian male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Noel Gutierrez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Refused male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Deangelo Jones	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Jonathan Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Jolan Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Delvis Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Edwin Ferreira	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	White male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Daniel Kern	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Donovan	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mario Moreno	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jenny Zurica	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Carlos Nieves	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Nolan Lauterborn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 12 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Travis Mussaw	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Erick Flores	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Victor Torres	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Steve Crozier	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Lisa Bonsignore	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2014
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 63 years old	Exonerated	2014
Nadine Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Mccaffrey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2014
Stephen Sheppard	Police Officer	White male	White male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Rudy Dominguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Bilal Ates	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michael Heinz	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2014
Christina Romero	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Henry Daverin	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 11 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Scally	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Felix Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2014
Brendan Heapes	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	White male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	White male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2014
John Slavinsky	Detective	White male	White male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Malik Mccloud	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michele Butera	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Matthew Mauro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kevin Devine	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Dino Tamayo	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Schulman	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Sean Mcdonnell	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2014
Christophe Mcdonald	Police Officer	Black male	Refused male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Larry Dunn	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Guerrieri	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kieran Tracy	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Edgar Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Concepcion Robles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Shoumendra Nandy	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Daniel Ludemann	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jose Ortiz	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Carlos Silva	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2014
Freddy Dominguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2014
Brendan Heapes	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 66 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014

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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.