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
Jose Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lawrence Fiorello	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lenin Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Felix Concepcion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2012
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Weber	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Lazarou	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Martin Gimenez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2012
David Paray	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2012
Pamela Benites	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Frank Dibisceglie	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2012
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Troy Luis	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lydia Figueroa	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Erica Price	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Asian male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Robert Backiel	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2012
Camilo Rosario	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Leonardo Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Musante	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lukasz Organistka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jose Ortiz	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ignazio Conca	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jacob Giannelli	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2012
Joseph Augello	Police Officer	White male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Cruzado	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Petr Janak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2011
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Miguel Frias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2011
Brian Holshek	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Robert Orlando	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Joseph Albertini	Police Officer	White male	White male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Patrick Volgende	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Henry Adames	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Joseph Parchen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Hebert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Pena	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Alberto Pizarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Brian Mchenry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Terrell Anderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Alvarado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Marlon Bethel	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2011
Osvaldo Nunez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jason Cira	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Lamont Gibson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Constantin Moutopoulos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Brendan Obrien	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2011
Blase Mucciariello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2011
Daniel Barreto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Cesar Polanco	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Armstrong	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
John Stoltenborg	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Sasha Rosen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jose Martell	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Christophe Morris	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Patrick Volgende	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Michael Raso	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Humberto Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Anthony Gulotta	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2011
Daniel Mufaddi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jason Korpolinski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Weldon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Erik Nelson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Mario Morales	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2010
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Charlie Little	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2010
Cesar Polanco	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Todd Craven	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Joseph Seminara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2010
Daniel Baca	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2010
Stephen Dimassa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Daniel Campbell	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christophe Burton	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Matthew Zito	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Matthew Zito	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Felix Concepcion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2010
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2010
Burt Antoine	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christophe Beckett	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2010
Patrick Quigley	Sergeant	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2010
Ronald Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Ronald Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2010
Tyrone Thompson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Michael Parks	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Dominick Nasso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2010
Anthony Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010

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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.