Abuse of Authority: VEHICLE STOP - The NYPD Files

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Abuse of Authority: Vehicle 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

824

Complaints

853

Allegations

1,094

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
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2004
Charles Rubenstrunk	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2004
Edward Deighan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Marquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2004
Daniel Alessandrino	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2004
Latisha Wilder	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2004
Rafael Iturralde	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2004
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Zoilo Encarnacion	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Edmund Rumman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2005
Titus Parham	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Bilal Ates	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Korabel	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2005
Keith Chatterton	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kevin Mcleish	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Dannecker	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ralph Cilento	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2005
William Waldron	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Michael Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Douglas Carr	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kenneth Juart	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2005
Keith Degiorgio	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Giovanni Giovanniello	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2005
Robert Dress	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
William Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Rudolph Hall	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2005
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Brian Mchenry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Eric Duval	Police Officer	White male	White male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2005
Donald Abrams	Sergeant	White male	White male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2005
Frank Diaz	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Deodat Urprasad	Lieutenant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2005
Christophe Friscia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2005
Peter Ievolo	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Lessard	Police Officer	White male	White male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2005
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2005
Nicole Gondry	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2005
Luis Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ralph Cilento	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2005
John Hopkins	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2005
Abraham Arteaga	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Federico Martinez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2005
Roberto Melendez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Matthew Granahan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Blas Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2005
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Berkley Vantull	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2006
Titus Parham	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Cecilia Medina	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
James Lyons	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jose Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Robert Oswald	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2006
Dominick Bizzarro	Police Officer	White male	White male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2006
Norman Grandstaff	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Vitaliy Zelikov	Police Officer	White male	White female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
Victor Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2006
Emilio Aponte	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
Oscar Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Miguel Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Wilmar Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Scoloveno	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Frank Danzi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
James Biondo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2006
Cesar Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Sean Downes	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Johanna Urena	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Malcolm Freeman	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2006
Troy Luis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Christophe Mcnerney	Police Officer	White male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2006
William Haut	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 76 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Agosta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Rudolph Hall	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2006
John Caruso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jude Reimbeau	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Exonerated	2006
Robert Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kelvin Puello	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Kevin Paynter	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Brian Newberry	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Sergio Merino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2006
Lawrence Fiorello	Sergeant	White male	White male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Neil Zuber	Police Officer	White male	White female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2006
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ralph Cilento	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2006
Larry Burnham	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Scott Cote	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ivan Kolovic	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kevin Devine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Thomas Casey	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006

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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.