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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
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.
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