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
Soney Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Alexander Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2018
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2005
Christophe Friscia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2005
Matthew Cahill	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2015
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2009
Daniel Dallemand	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Clifford Louis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2013
David Paray	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2012
Daniel Barreto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Sasha Rosen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2009
Robert Roda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2009
William Glynn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2007
Brian Ilund	Detective	White male	Black female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2016
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2012
Dany Fana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Christophe Brower	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2019
Sean Keegan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2015
Louis Aponte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2019
Michael Temperino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
Richard Warner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2003
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Sean Collins	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
Michael Oconnor	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2002
Bryan Zuccaro	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2007
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
Thomas Fusco	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
David Quattrocchi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2016
Christian Salazar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2018
Steven Ramunno	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
Louis Villegas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2016
Sean Christian	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2019
Thomas Woods	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2002
Vitaliy Zelikov	Police Officer	White male	White female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2007
Ramiro Ruiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2015
Daniel Baca	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joseph Nicoletti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2019
Daniel Guida	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2017
Daniel Guida	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ariel Eusebio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2017
Steven Ramunno	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2017
Mark Scarlatelli	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2014
Zoilo Encarnacion	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Joseph Mcevoy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2015
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joseph Mcevoy	Detective	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2019
Oscar Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2015
Miguel Sanchez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2009
Emilio Aponte	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
Darnell Forrester	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 67 years old	Exonerated	2015
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
Anthony Leitao	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
James Eisert	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2003
Matthew Finn	Police Officer	White male	White male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Rafael Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2019
Darryl Schwartz	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
Ananda Mirandamessner	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Unknown male, 81 years old	Exonerated	2016
Patrick Quigley	Sergeant	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2010
Dany Fana	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joseph Marquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Villarreal	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2018
Christophe Zaleski	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2008
Christophe Burton	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Daniel Collins	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2002
Ralph Cilento	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Lunetta	Police Officer	White male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2013
Brendan Grace	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2016
Eduard Nogol	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2017
Kevin Casey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2009
George Taylor	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2005
Juby Thomas	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2016
Robert Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2004
Patrick Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2002
Kyron Delarosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2015
Gregory Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2018
Ryan Duffany	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Sergeant	White male	White male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mario Bueno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2019
Juan Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2019
Noelle Miglino	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2019
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Brian Mchenry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jason Sharp	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Khandakar Abdullah	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2014
Titus Parham	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Richard Warner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Signorile	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2016
Vincent Dandraia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2019
James Biondo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2006
Risel Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2016
Miguel Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Matthew Lambert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	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.