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Abuse of Authority: Threat To Notify Acs
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
91
Complaints
91
Allegations
97
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 |
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Jamar Goddard | Detective | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2019 |
Alexandru Anghel | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2019 |
David Ramirez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Audrey Wise | Sergeant | Black female | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
Ioannis Rizos | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Michael Duggan | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
James Biondo | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
David Oconnell | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Joseph Lafata | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Stephen Lalchan | Detective | Asian male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Jonathan Taveras | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Claudio Ramirez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Cory Levy | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
Matthew Monkowski | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
Janert Gil | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Robert Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Brendan Murphy | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Sheila Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Brett Strauss | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Brendan Murphy | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Jose Cintron | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Robert Barnett | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Maribel Burgos | Sergeant | Hispanic female | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Mirjan Lolja | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
Christophe Healy | Detective | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Thomas Ramirez | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Tricia Grant | Police Officer | Black female | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
James Romano | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
Raheen Rivers | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Christophe Daly | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Michael Ardolino | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Shaun Healy | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Mario Morales | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
Jason Cira | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Josh Ulan | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Seth Lynch | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Jonathan Ku | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Christophe Dukes | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Brian Tiernan | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Eric Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 43 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Steve Crozier | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Nikolaos Stefopoulos | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Corey Gresko | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Omar Elsayed | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Matthew Giunta | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Charles Ingrassia | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Ruben Alvarez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Robert Simms | Detective | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Andre Blake | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Keith Knight | Detective | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Joseph Cruzado | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Thomas Ramirez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Dion Edwards | Detective | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Alberto Angilletta | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
James Eisert | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Oliver Castillo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Eduardo Vite | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Keith Chatterton | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Robert Barnett | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Maritza Garay | Sergeant | Hispanic female | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Patrick Hennessy | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Peter Valentin | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Frederick Reyes | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Colin Caesar | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Joseph Fernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Alex Toro | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2009 |
David Cuce | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2009 |
Bruce Solomon | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Carl Scogmanillo | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Andrew Tolson | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
John Timpanaro | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Cecilia Luckie | Police Officer | Black female | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Felix Gross | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Sandy Polanco | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Barbara Arroyo | Police Officer | White female | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Humberto Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Christopher McCormack | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Edwin Ayala | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
John Hopkins | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Richard Cohen | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Freddy Dominguez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Robert Henderson | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Mitchell Eisenberg | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Phawn Butler | Police Officer | Black female | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
Joseph Tallarine | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
Andre Teterycz | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
Alfred Moberg | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
Brian Mcginn | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
Michael Lipetri | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
Richard Turk | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
David Levine | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
Charles Barberi | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2001 |
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.