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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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: 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
Gerard Delprete Detective White male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2010
Diery Louis Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2010
Kevin Maloney Lieutenant White male White male, 28 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
Burt Antoine Police Officer Black male Black female, 29 years old Exonerated 2010
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer White male Black male, 37 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Yurantz Assade Police Officer White male Black female, 34 years old Exonerated 2010
Daniel Baca Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 51 years old Exonerated 2010
Ronald Perez Sergeant Hispanic male Unknown male, 36 years old Exonerated 2010
Ronald Perez Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Mario Morales Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Christophe Beckett Police Officer White male Black female, 34 years old Exonerated 2010
Michael Parks Police Officer Black male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Jared Tepperman Detective White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2010
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Christophe Burton Police Officer Black male White female, 42 years old Exonerated 2010
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Patrick Quigley Sergeant White male White male, 57 years old Exonerated 2010
Dominick Nasso Police Officer White male Black male, 44 years old Exonerated 2010
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Timothy Jaycox Sergeant White male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Constantin Moutopoulos Police Officer White male Black male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jason Cira Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Min Kim Police Officer Asian male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Eric Miller Police Officer Black male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Robert Orlando Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2011
Henry Adames Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 44 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2011
James Armstrong Sergeant White male Black male, 45 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Brian Holshek Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Black male, 45 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2011
Blase Mucciariello Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2011
Humberto Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Brendan Obrien Detective White male White male, 22 years old Exonerated 2011
Eric Pena Police Officer Asian male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Alberto Pizarro Detective Hispanic male Black male, 44 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2011
Michael Raso Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Cesar Polanco Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Robert Bracero Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Terrell Anderson Sergeant Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Daniel Barreto Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2011
Marlon Bethel Police Officer Black male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2011
Christophe Morris Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Daniel Mufaddi Sergeant White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Sasha Rosen Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Brian Mchenry Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2011
Joseph Albertini Police Officer White male White male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Patrick Volgende Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Patrick Volgende Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Matthew Lewis Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Christophe Hebert Police Officer White male Black male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Winston Willabus Sergeant Hispanic male White male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Winston Willabus Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Joseph Weldon Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jose Martell Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Lamont Gibson Police Officer Black male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Osvaldo Nunez Lieutenant Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Joseph Parchen Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
John Stoltenborg Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Petr Janak Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2011
Jason Korpolinski Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Anthony Gulotta Sergeant White male Black female, 25 years old Exonerated 2011
Miguel Frias Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2011
Christophe Alvarado Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Lazarou Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joseph Redmond Sergeant White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2012
Jared Rothschild Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Siu Lam Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Hemadeh Fattah Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Lydia Figueroa Police Officer Hispanic female White male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Aaron Klein Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2012
Aaron Klein Sergeant White male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Joseph Cruzado Sergeant White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Frank Dibisceglie Police Officer White male Asian male, 47 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2012
James Famiano Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Joseph Augello Police Officer White male White male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Luke Denesopolis Sergeant White male White male, 32 years old Exonerated 2012
Jacob Giannelli Police Officer White male Asian male, 28 years old Exonerated 2012
Ignazio Conca Sergeant White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Jason Bernfeld Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2012
Jose Ortiz Lieutenant Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Troy Luis Sergeant Black male Unknown male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Felix Concepcion Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 32 years old Exonerated 2012
David Paray Police Officer Asian male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2012
William Beattie Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2012
Gerard Delprete Detective White male White male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
John Musante Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Friedman Detective White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Washington Zurita Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Emrah Ates Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Aleksandr Pasynkov Police Officer White male White male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Frank Lupo Police Officer White male Black male, 54 years old Exonerated 2012
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Erica Price Police Officer Hispanic female Asian male, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Justin Cracchiola Police Officer White male Other Race female, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Lawrence Fiorello Sergeant White male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Bruce Ceparano Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2012
Matthew Lewis Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Pamela Benites Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Lukasz Organistka Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
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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