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
Brian Alexander	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Brian Alexander	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Musante	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lukasz Organistka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lukasz Organistka	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Anthony Bomparola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Anthony Bomparola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2017
Keith Chatterton	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2004
Keith Chatterton	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Richard Danese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Danese	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Matthew Librizzi	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2018
Daniel Manetta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Daniel Manetta	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2019
Daniel Manetta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2019
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
William Froehlich	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2016
Isa Abbassi	Sergeant	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2003
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jennifer Lavelle	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
John Quis	Police Officer	White male	White male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Richard Bergin	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 18 years old	Exonerated	2004
Herbert Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2004
Robert Nugent	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Paul Farella	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Anthony Kotarski	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Joseph Seminara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2010
James Mcgarry	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2008
Amjad Kasaji	Detective	White male	Other Race female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
William Pugliese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Pugliese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Robert Hawreluk	Police Officer	White male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Timothy Gaven	Detective	White male	Other Race male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Timothy Gaven	Detective	White male	Black female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Robert Carbone	Detective	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
William Matthies	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jared Rothschild	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jared Rothschild	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
David Russo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ryan Pretty	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2016
Richard Browne	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Michael Dicecco	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Constantin Moutopoulos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Brian Green	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Robert Orlando	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Brian Holshek	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Nicosia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Weber	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kevin Judge	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Christophe Valis	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2002
Robert Backiel	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Beckett	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christophe Crain	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2008
Harris Haskovic	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2004
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2004
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2005
Benjamin Gottlieb	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2003
Michael Carrieri	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Brendan Reilly	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2015
Steven Ramunno	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
Ralph Cilento	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
James Biondo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2006
Anthony Leitao	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Daniel Collins	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2002
Brendan Grace	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2016
Brendan Murphy	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Brian Clements	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jacob Newman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Darryl Schwartz	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2007
Ryan Duffany	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Derek Lenart	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Joseph Signorile	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2016
Richard Gibson	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Richard Mcknight	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Patrick Quigley	Sergeant	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Thomas Woods	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2002
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Kevin Casey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2009
Edward Reardon	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Sergeant	White male	White male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Michael Whooley	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Sergeant	White male	White male, 61 years old	Exonerated	2017
Norman Grandstaff	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Robert Oswald	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2006
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Matthew Finn	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Matthew Finn	Police Officer	White male	White male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
James Gale	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
James Gale	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Brian Muldowney	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Brian Muldowney	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018

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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.