Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest

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
1,043
Complaints
1,266
Allegations
1,409

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
Fernando Guimaraes Lieutenant Hispanic male Asian male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Richard Gadson Police Officer Black male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2008
Nikolaos Stefopoulos Police Officer White male Black male, 49 years old Exonerated 2008
Dany Fana Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Kimberly Mccarthy Police Officer White female White female, 34 years old Exonerated 2008
Jose Santory Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2009
Jose Collazo Police Officer Hispanic male Black female Unsubstantiated 2009
Petr Janak Police Officer White male Black male, 13 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2009
Jeremy Banfield Police Officer White male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2009
Brian Shevitz Police Officer White male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Edward Mcclain Police Officer White male Black female, 28 years old Exonerated 2009
John Gogarty Lieutenant White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Darrell Dass Police Officer Asian male Asian male, 52 years old Exonerated 2009
Dany Fana Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Victor Reyes Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Wael Jaber Police Officer White male Black male, 73 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jose Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Michael Dannecker Sergeant White male White male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Blake Sydlo Police Officer White male White male, 26 years old Exonerated 2009
Ebony Glover Police Officer Black female White female, 50 years old Exonerated 2009
Blake Sydlo Police Officer White male White male, 38 years old Exonerated 2009
Avidan Santiago Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Carlos Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Troy Peacock Police Officer Black male Other Race female, 41 years old Exonerated 2009
John Mccrossen Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Paul Mcmahon Lieutenant White male Black female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Joshua Faranda Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Joseph Abdelmessih Police Officer White male White male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Vincent Testa Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Carlos Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Angel Gonzalez Sergeant Hispanic male Black female Unsubstantiated 2009
Neil Casey Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Rolando Carbonell Detective Hispanic male Black female, 49 years old Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2009
Alfredo Brewster Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2009
Luis Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown female Exonerated 2009
Mark Kistoo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 47 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Victoria Lafauci Detective White female White male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Allan Taeza Police Officer Asian male Asian female, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Nathan Mole Sergeant Black male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Edgar Padilla Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Daniel Ludemann Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jeremy Demarco Detective White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Sean Christian Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 47 years old Exonerated 2009
Sean Downes Sergeant White male Unknown male, 20 years old Exonerated 2009
Eric Collazo Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Alvin Gomez Lieutenant Hispanic male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Brian Clements Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Eric Delman Sergeant White male Black female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Robert Krohley Sergeant White male White female, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Angela Polancobrito Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic female, 36 years old Exonerated 2009
Clifford Louis Sergeant Black male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Kevon Sample Police Officer Black male Unknown female Exonerated 2009
Fabio Nunez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jason Harris Lieutenant White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Frank Monge Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
James White Detective White male Black male, 50 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Frederick Drone Police Officer White male White male, 29 years old Exonerated 2009
Matthew Reid Sergeant White male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Gerald Heanue Detective White male Black female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Edgar Padilla Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic female, 21 years old Exonerated 2009
Jason Brunson Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Sasha Rosen Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Michael Oconnor Sergeant White male Black female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Charles Rubenstrunk Police Officer White male White male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Cynthia Rodriguez Sergeant Hispanic female Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2009
Sandy Polanco Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Victor Charles Police Officer Black male Black male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Roberson Tunis Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2010
John Mejia Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2010
Damon Martin Sergeant Black male Hispanic female, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Joseph Albertini Police Officer White male White male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Jose Camacho Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2010
Aneesah Mitchell Police Officer Black female Black male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Felix Gross Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 42 years old Exonerated 2010
Robert Castro Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 58 years old Exonerated 2010
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Black female, 37 years old Exonerated 2010
Piero Lasaponara Police Officer White male Black male, 51 years old Exonerated 2010
Michael Geraldi Police Officer White male Asian female, 24 years old Exonerated 2010
Angel Gonzalez Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Michael Greaney Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Exonerated 2010
Dion Edwards Detective Black male Hispanic male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Jay Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Exonerated 2010
Kimm Cruse Police Officer Black male Black female, 38 years old Exonerated 2010
Elvis Cole Police Officer White male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
John Ryan Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Angelo Pizzarro Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Chris Morello Captain White male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Theresa Callahan Police Officer White female Black male, 47 years old Exonerated 2010
Ezequiel Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Refused male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Bryan Hagmaier Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 21 years old Exonerated 2010
Angela Polancobrito Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Joseph Fernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 37 years old Exonerated 2010
Dennis Friendly Detective Black male Black male, 48 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Patrick Craig Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Kelvin Peralta Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Eric Perez Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 40 years old Exonerated 2010
Frank Altieri Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Thomas Decker Detective White male White male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Tyrone Thompson Police Officer Black male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2010
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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