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
Gregg Minardi	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2019
Timothy Fox	Lieutenant	White male	Other Race male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2019
Joseph Nicoletti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2019
Kyron Delarosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Tyler Howe	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2019
Rafael Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Daniel Manetta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Nelson Ayala	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
John Zanca	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2019
Sean Christian	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2019
Gregg Minardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Brett Woodard	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Christian Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Nathaniel Beck	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2019
Cory Levy	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2019
Christophe Digioia	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Louis Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Marcel Francis	Detective	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Renaldo Weekes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Noelle Miglino	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2019
Ryan Duffany	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2019
Ever Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2019
Daniel Manetta	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2019
Gregg Minardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2019
Anthony Donato	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2019
Jose Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2019
Vincent Dandraia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2019
Angelo Martino	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2019
Thomas Taverna	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Christian Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Michael Raso	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Joseph Spalding	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Christophe Schiro	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2019
Daniel Manetta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2019
Christophe Brower	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2019
Timothy Fox	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2019
Hassan Gheith	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Bjondin Skender	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2019
Brian Mahon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Juan Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2019
Matthew Palmerini	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2019
Khalid Ragab	Detective	White male	Asian male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
Philip Tantillo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
James Holder	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Erick Flores	Detective	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Craig Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Rexford Asiedu	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2019
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Stephen Schmitt	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2019
Nicholas Bekas	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2019
Mario Bueno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2019
Lennoxann Samerson	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2019
Louis Aponte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2019
Joseph Mcevoy	Detective	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2019
David Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Joseph Lorenzi	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2019
Rafael Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2019
James Gale	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Darryl Schwartz	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
James Gale	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Matthew Finn	Police Officer	White male	White male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Matthew Finn	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Philip Picciano	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Timothy Fox	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jorge Sanabria	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2018
Alberto Pizarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Steven Schwartz	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Michael Pyzikiewicz	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jonathan Hom	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
Daniel Rivas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 75 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Robert Dominicci	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Philip Picciano	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Nairobi Grayson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2018
Andrew Fago	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2018
Alberto Pizarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
James Holder	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 60 years old	Exonerated	2018
Frank Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Lance Walter	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2018
James Holder	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jonathan Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Alexander Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2018
Leo Bonacasa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2018
Gregory Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2018
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
Matthew Lambert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
Christina Anderson	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2018
Christian Calvagna	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Michael Temperino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
Colin Austin	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jonathan Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Soney Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Thomas Macca	Police Officer	White male	White female, 74 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Gary Leite	Police Officer	White male	White female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
James Zozzaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Andrew Kinsella	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Matthew Shaw	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Christian Salazar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2018
Louis Dambrosio	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 27 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.