Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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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
Lydia Figueroa Police Officer Hispanic female White male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Luke Denesopolis Sergeant White male White male, 32 years old Exonerated 2012
Robert Orlando Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
John Ryan Sergeant White male White male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Matthew Lewis Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Erica Price Police Officer Hispanic female Asian male, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Jose Taveras Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 35 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Lawrence Fiorello Sergeant White male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
David Paray Police Officer Asian male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2012
Washington Zurita Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Robert Backiel Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Friedman Detective White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
William Beattie Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 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 Hillmann Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Kenneth Vencak Police Officer White male White male, 26 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Thomas Martilla Police Officer White male Black female, 45 years old Exonerated 2013
Terrell Anderson Sergeant Black male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
John Gumpel Sergeant White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Justin Delmonico Police Officer White male Black female, 31 years old Exonerated 2013
Steve Crozier Sergeant White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Christophe Denny Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
James Haley Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Andre Blake Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Patrick Thompson Police Officer White male Refused male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Michael Dicecco Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
David Russo Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Luis Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Andrew Fago Detective White male White male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Rafael Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Rodney Wikira Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Robert Mcginn Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Kelvin Peralta Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Aaron Lohman Police Officer White male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Mark Scarlatelli Detective White male Black female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Brian Clements Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Charlie Little Police Officer Black male White male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Richard Charles Police Officer Black male Black female, 31 years old Exonerated 2013
Joseph Nicosia Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Atara Ashford Police Officer Hispanic female White male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Francisco Perez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 47 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Kelvin Peralta Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jared Tepperman Detective White male Black female, 46 years old Exonerated 2013
Trevor Baronette Sergeant Black male Black male, 45 years old Exonerated 2013
Michele Butera Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 53 years old Exonerated 2013
James Lee Sergeant Asian male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2013
Carlos Corporan Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 21 years old Exonerated 2013
Thomas Woods Detective White male Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Michael Lunetta Police Officer White male White male, 22 years old Exonerated 2013
Anthony Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Eric Healy Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Pete Massa Sergeant White male Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Daniel Haggerty Police Officer White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Daniel Gukelberger Police Officer White male Other Race male, 42 years old Exonerated 2013
Rosa Gonzaleznoa Detective Hispanic female Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Michael Mchugh Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Exonerated 2013
Kimberly Washington Police Officer Black female Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jason Jansky Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
William Pierce Police Officer Black male White male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
William Matthies Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jose Sandoval Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Christophe Ward Sergeant White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2013
James Conn Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Christophe Kearney Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Clifford Louis Sergeant Black male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2013
Gerald Stlouis Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
William Morris Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Mathew Reich Detective White male Black female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Ryan Puglisi Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Robert Hawreluk Police Officer White male White male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
David Leonardi Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2013
Edgar Clases Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 46 years old Exonerated 2013
Timothy Rizzo Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Rafael Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Peter Curran Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Joseph Imperatrice Sergeant White male Hispanic female Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Jonathan Glazer Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Kelvin Peralta Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 58 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Scott Hamburger Sergeant White male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Karl Eckert Detective White male White female, 34 years old Exonerated 2014
Jorge Sanabria Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2014
John Todaro Sergeant White male Black female, 23 years old Exonerated 2014
Robert Deferrari Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Darrel Oneill Detective White male Black male, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Mathew Reich Detective White male White male, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Jonathan Glazer Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Exonerated 2014
John Ryan Sergeant White male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2014
John Ryan Sergeant White male White male, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Jonathan Glazer Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Whelan Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2014
Dominic Ruggiero Police Officer White male Asian male, 25 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Khandakar Abdullah Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 38 years old Exonerated 2014
Paul Palminteri Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Exonerated 2014
Michael Cappellano Police Officer White male White male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Steve Crozier Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Exonerated 2014
Matthew Lewis Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Davon Alston Sergeant Black male Black male, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Mike Civil Detective Black male White male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
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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