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
Jennifer Lavelle	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
Erick Flores	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Thomas Napolitano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2008
Paul Aparo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Brendan Dono	Police Officer	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2008
Alonzo Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christophe Crain	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2008
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Wilmar Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Michael Dannecker	Sergeant	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Lynn Ruger	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jose Tabora	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown female	Exonerated	2008
Richard Pignatelli	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Leonard Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Adan Munoz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Adan Munoz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Corey Gresko	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2008
Francisco Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Donnell Powell	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Dominick Vasaturo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2008
Louis Dambrosio	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2008
Louis Latorre	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Thomas Fusco	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
Joseph Richman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Victor Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Arsenio Camilo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Miguel Frias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
James Mcgarry	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2008
Anthony Kotarski	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Michael Edmonds	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Christophe Zaleski	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2008
Marc Klausner	Sergeant	White male	White male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
Barbara Fischer	Sergeant	White female	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Lipton	Police Officer	White male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Robert Nugent	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Michael Langlois	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Andre Figueiredo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Simon Rashid	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Tyrone Thompson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2009
Miguel Sanchez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2009
Liam Swords	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2009
Anil Jacob	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male	Exonerated	2009
Michael Sykora	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2009
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jose Caban	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Sean Mchugh	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2009
Christophe Friscia	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
John Cascone	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Terence Curran	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2009
Christophe Kearney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Michael Raso	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Sasha Rosen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2009
John Roberts	Detective	White male	White male	Exonerated	2009
Jolene Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Robert Roda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2009
Michael Demonda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2009
Edgard Calderon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2009
Eric Konoski	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2009
Michael Bellagamba	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2009
Eric Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2009
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2009
Kevin Casey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2009
Philip Picciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2009
Christophe Derco	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Rosanna Capellan	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2009
Randy Rose	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2009
Katrina Forrester	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Anthony Proscia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2009
Theohari Koumniotes	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Matthew Reid	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joseph Azevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jason Harris	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Bellagamba	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
William Sommer	Sergeant	White male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Moyer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2009
Anthony Leitao	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Campbell	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Timothy Jaycox	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Patrick Cain	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Patrick Cain	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Tyrone Thompson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Cesar Polanco	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Todd Craven	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Patrick Cain	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Kevin Whelan	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2010
Erik Nelson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2010
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Ronald Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Burt Antoine	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Ronald Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2010
Garsing Chan	Police Officer	Asian male	White female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Ralph Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010

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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.