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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Edward Deighan Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2004
Richard Warner Police Officer White male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2004
Robert Henderson Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Rolando Carbonell Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male Unsubstantiated 2004
Freddy Dominguez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Peter Ievolo Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Joseph Matthew Sergeant Black male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2004
Gregory Pekera Sergeant White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2004
Louis Pepe Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Joseph Marquez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 38 years old Exonerated 2004
Anthony Barresi Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Jerome Teahan Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Robert Garcia Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 32 years old Exonerated 2004
Keith Chatterton Police Officer White male Black female, 29 years old Exonerated 2004
Andrew Hatki Lieutenant White male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2004
Christophe Lagrasta Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Andrew Hatki Lieutenant White male Black female, 48 years old Exonerated 2004
Richard Bergin Lieutenant White male Black female, 18 years old Exonerated 2004
Herbert Martin Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2004
Cesar Marinelli Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 32 years old Exonerated 2004
Harvin Hart Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 36 years old Exonerated 2004
Patrick Smith Police Officer American Indian male Black male Unsubstantiated 2004
Joseph Lessard Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2004
Patrick Cortright Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 45 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Daniel Alessandrino Police Officer White male Other Race male, 46 years old Exonerated 2004
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Christophe Price Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2004
Ignazio Selvaggio Police Officer White male White male, 52 years old Exonerated 2004
Kevin Judge Sergeant White male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2004
Darren King Police Officer Black male Black female, 37 years old Exonerated 2003
William Bravo Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2003
Robert Henderson Sergeant White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Benjamin Gottlieb Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2003
Richard Warner Police Officer White male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2003
Erika Moore Police Officer Hispanic female White female, 74 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Isa Abbassi Sergeant White male Black male Exonerated 2003
Kenneth Douglas Police Officer Black male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2003
Michael Ernst Police Officer White male Black male, 51 years old Exonerated 2003
Joseph Bieniewicz Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 23 years old Exonerated 2003
Robert Pearo Police Officer White male Asian male, 36 years old Exonerated 2003
Ignazio Selvaggio Police Officer White male Black male, 47 years old Exonerated 2003
Colin Austin Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2003
Robert Nugent Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 33 years old Exonerated 2003
Robert Falcone Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2003
James Eisert Police Officer White male Black female, 36 years old Exonerated 2003
Paul Insauto Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2003
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2003
Brian Depalo Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Rafael Vega Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Alan Gaspard Detective Black male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
James Byrne Police Officer White male Black female, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Michael Williams Police Officer Black male Black female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Kieran Creighton Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Darren King Police Officer Black male Black female, 48 years old Exonerated 2003
Timera Floodsuero Police Officer Black female White female, 74 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Louis Leblanc Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Patrick Brown Police Officer White male Black female, 48 years old Exonerated 2002
Karl Eckert Police Officer White male White male, 32 years old Exonerated 2002
Daniel Collins Police Officer White male Unknown male, 18 years old Exonerated 2002
Eric Samuels Police Officer Black male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2002
William Schmidt Police Officer White male Unknown male, 18 years old Exonerated 2002
Scott Henderson Sergeant Black male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2002
Thomas Woods Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2002
Michael Oconnor Police Officer White male Black female, 33 years old Exonerated 2002
Raymond Festino Sergeant White male Black male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Christophe Valis Sergeant White male Asian male, 21 years old Exonerated 2002
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Michael Guzzino Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Paul Mcmahon Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Paul Deentremont Lieutenant White male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2002
Michael Ernst Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2001
Darrell Nathan Detective Black male White male, 41 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Michael Barreto Lieutenant Hispanic male Black male, 34 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Kevin Judge Sergeant White male White male, 22 years old Exonerated 2001
Dominic Casalino Sergeant White male Not available male, 39 years old Exonerated 2001
Kevin Judge Sergeant White male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Richard Adamiak Police Officer White male Black female, 28 years old Exonerated 2001
Kenneth Ayala Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 38 years old Exonerated 2001
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Richard Mccarty Detective White male Black male Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2000
Frank Knight Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2000
Osvaldo Nunez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2000
Christophe Cunha Sergeant White male White male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2000
John Hoffman Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2000
Kevin Matthews Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Exonerated 2000
Louis Pepe Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2000
Vincent Testa Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2000
Douglas Lansing Detective White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2000
James Ross Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 40 years old Exonerated 2000
Paul Inzirillo Lieutenant White male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 1999
Shawn Gallagher Police Officer White male Black male, 45 years old Exonerated 1999
Mark Kurys Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 1999
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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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