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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
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2010
Brian Green	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christyan Garcia	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Philip Vaccarino	Detective	White male	White male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Irene Bonicadelgado	Detective	Hispanic female	White male, 66 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jason Cira	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Marcel Francis	Detective	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
James Williams	Detective	White male	White male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2017
Katrina Forrester	Detective	Black female	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Alberto Pizarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Delcar Savage	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Steven Ramunno	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
Louis Dambrosio	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2018
Liam Ohara	Detective	White male	Black female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Joseph Franco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Robert Carbone	Detective	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Shante Terrell	Detective	Black male	White male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Erick Flores	Detective	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Philip Vaccarino	Detective	White male	Black female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2016
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
George Katris	Detective	White male	Asian male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
David Marconi	Detective	White male	White male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alberto Pizarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Brendan Obrien	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2011
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2014
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Kenneth Anderson	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Andry Duarte	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 38 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Darrel Oneill	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Alberto Pizarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Patrick Cherry	Detective	White male	Asian male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Rosa Gonzaleznoa	Detective	Hispanic female	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Juan Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Matthew Zito	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Anthony Wright	Detective	Black male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Amjad Kasaji	Detective	White male	Other Race female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Timothy Gaven	Detective	White male	Black female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Daniel Beddows	Detective	White male	Black male, 62 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	Not available male	Exonerated	2015
Alan Gaspard	Detective	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
James Ross	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2000
Steven Ramunno	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	White male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Jared Tepperman	Detective	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2013
Jared Tepperman	Detective	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2010
Piero Lasaponara	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2015
Thomas Ramirez	Detective	Hispanic male	Asian male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Victor Rosario	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daniel Ludemann	Detective	White male	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Andrew Fago	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Fago	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2018
Brendan Obrien	Detective	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2007
Brendan Obrien	Detective	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Darryl Schwartz	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Black female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2016
Darrell Nathan	Detective	Black male	White male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Joseph Mcevoy	Detective	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2019
Mark Scarlatelli	Detective	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mark Scarlatelli	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2014
Brian Ilund	Detective	White male	Black female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2016
Frank Diaz	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Richard Mccarty	Detective	White male	Black male	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2000
Khalid Ragab	Detective	White male	Asian male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
Michael Friedman	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Roberts	Detective	White male	White male	Exonerated	2009
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Carlos Vazquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Douglas Lansing	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2000
Angelo Pizzarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2017
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Adam Conlin	Detective	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2016
Mike Civil	Detective	Black male	White male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Mark Holder	Detective	Black male	Other Race male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Steven Lopez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Karl Eckert	Detective	White male	White female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2014
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
James Zozzaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Timothy Gaven	Detective	White male	Other Race male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joseph Gulotta	Inspector	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2016
Richard Gibson	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Washington Zurita	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Fernando Guimaraes	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Asian male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Hopkins	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2016
Richard Vetrano	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Colin Austin	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Ryan	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kieran Creighton	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Kevin Paynter	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Barreto	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Nanhao Chen	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black male, 67 years old	Exonerated	2017

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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.