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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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: Threat To Damage/Seize Property

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
162
Complaints
162
Allegations
171

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
Jeremy Banfield Police Officer White male Black female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Sean Mchugh Lieutenant White male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Joseph Nicosia Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Christophe Pasquale Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 45 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Mark Grant Detective Black male Hispanic male, 60 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Francesco Allevato Police Officer White male Unknown male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Ruben Alvarez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Rohan Griffith Sergeant Black male Black female, 39 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2012
Shameeka Cummings Police Officer Black female Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2012
Scott Lieneck Detective White male Hispanic female Unsubstantiated 2012
Jeffrey Hunold Police Officer White male Black female, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christophe Ward Detective White male Black female, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Troy Luis Sergeant Black male Unknown male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Stephen Berardi Police Officer White male Black male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Jacob Giannelli Police Officer White male Asian male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
David Grieco Police Officer White male Black male, 84 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Sean Christian Police Officer Black male White female, 23 years old Exonerated 2011
Carlos Lozada Detective Hispanic male Black female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Patrick Gannon Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Rolando Carbonell Detective Hispanic male Black female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Mark Vazquez Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Ahsan Zafar Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Rashan Lacoste Detective Black male Black female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
John Bellico Detective White male White male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Mark Holder Detective Black male Other Race male, 33 years old Exonerated 2010
Peter Valentin Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Dennis Westbrook Police Officer Black male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Christophe Devaney Lieutenant White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Dominick Nasso Police Officer White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Eli Slavkin Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jason Harris Lieutenant White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jeremy Banfield Police Officer White male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Alex Toro Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 37 years old Exonerated 2009
Andre Figueiredo Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2009
Barbara Fischer Sergeant White female White female, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Ralph Pacheco Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 63 years old Exonerated 2008
John Rajan Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Luke Gasquez Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 46 years old Exonerated 2008
Zoilo Encarnacion Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Robert Barnett Sergeant White male Black female, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Gennaro Russo Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Michael Scoloveno Police Officer White male Black female, 35 years old Exonerated 2007
Justin Cracchiola Police Officer White male Unknown male, 43 years old Exonerated 2007
Joseph Stynes Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Black female, 66 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
George Katris Police Officer White male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Kristian Flood Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Matthew Granahan Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Edward Barry Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 28 years old Exonerated 2006
John Fogelman Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Christophe Greiner Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Thomas Marco Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Michael Parks Police Officer Black male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2006
Anthony Gulotta Police Officer White male Unknown male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
John Oconnor Sergeant White male White male, 25 years old Exonerated 2006
Craig Crisfield Detective White male Black female, 65 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Christophe Lawrence Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Mahmoud Attia Police Officer White male Black female, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Joseph Bieniewicz Police Officer White male White male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Carl Roadarmel Detective White male Hispanic female, 42 years old Exonerated 2005
James Hynes Sergeant White male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2005
Ignazio Selvaggio Police Officer White male White male, 52 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Christopher McCormack Sergeant White male White male, 30 years old Exonerated 2003
Brian Depalo Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Ernest Morales Lieutenant Hispanic male Black female, 57 years old Exonerated 2003
Rafael Vega Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Titus Parham Police Officer Black male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2001
Frank Palumbo Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2001
Angel Arroyo Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2000
Deodat Urprasad Sergeant Asian male Black female, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 1999
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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.
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