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
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2004
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jonathan Hom	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Wayne Ngor	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2015
Simon Rashid	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Aman Rana	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2017
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Je Chai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Aman Rana	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2018
David Paray	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2012
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Wayne Ngor	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Hassan Raza	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Raymond Abear	Police Officer	Asian male	Other Race male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2002
Soney Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2015
Simon Rashid	Police Officer	Asian male	Refused male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2016
Eric Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 63 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Deodat Urprasad	Lieutenant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2005
Aman Rana	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Herawattie Jeeuth	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Anil Jacob	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male	Exonerated	2009
Khandakar Abdullah	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2014
Nanhao Chen	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black male, 67 years old	Exonerated	2017
Garsing Chan	Police Officer	Asian male	White female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Eric Pena	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Juby Thomas	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2016
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Siu Lam	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
James Lee	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2013
Leonard Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Kitwane Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2017
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2009
Marlon Bethel	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2011
Colin Austin	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2003
Emilio Aponte	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
Lennoxann Samerson	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2019
Troy Luis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Colin Austin	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2018
Darnell Forrester	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 67 years old	Exonerated	2015
Darryl Mack	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Clifford Louis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2013
Tyrone Thompson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Andre Morris	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Marcel Francis	Detective	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Tyrone Thompson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2009
Mordecai Austrie	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2017
Teddy Duroc	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Jeremiah Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Terrell Anderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Charlie Little	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2010
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Laborde	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2017
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Daryl Melhado	Lieutenant	Black male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Kevon Sample	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Dustin Edwards	Sergeant	Black male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2014
Craig Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kimberly Washington	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jude Reimbeau	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Exonerated	2006
Titus Parham	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Stanley Green	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Michael Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Daniel Dallemand	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Titus Parham	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Renaldo Weekes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Mark Holder	Detective	Black male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joel Crooms	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
William Pierce	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Terrell Anderson	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Noel Alphonso	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christophe Burton	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
James Holder	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 60 years old	Exonerated	2018
Mike Civil	Detective	Black male	White male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Holder	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Sheldon Malcolm	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015

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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.