Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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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
Marcin Drozniak Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2010
Garsing Chan Police Officer Asian male White female, 42 years old Exonerated 2010
Anthony Ronda Lieutenant Hispanic male White male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Jared Tepperman Detective White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2010
Kevin Whelan Sergeant White male Black female, 52 years old Exonerated 2010
Yurantz Assade Police Officer White male Black female, 34 years old Exonerated 2010
Ralph Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 48 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Gerard Delprete Detective White male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2010
Diery Louis Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2010
Timothy Jaycox Sergeant White male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Rosanna Capellan Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 41 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Sykora Sergeant White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2009
Tyrone Thompson Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 37 years old Exonerated 2009
Joseph Azevedo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 25 years old Exonerated 2009
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Michael Ernst Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 35 years old Exonerated 2009
Sharif Portee Police Officer Black male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2009
Barbara Fischer Sergeant White female Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Christophe Lipton Police Officer White male White male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Gary Calhoun Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Sean Mchugh Sergeant White male Black male, 50 years old Exonerated 2009
Terence Curran Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 43 years old Exonerated 2009
Robert Nugent Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2009
Anthony Proscia Police Officer White male Black male, 55 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Raso Sergeant White male Black male, 39 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Kevin Casey Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2009
Robert Bracero Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 30 years old Exonerated 2009
Christophe White Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2009
Glenn Ziminski Police Officer Asian male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Katrina Forrester Police Officer Black female Hispanic male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
William Sommer Sergeant White male White male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Anthony Leitao Police Officer White male Other Race male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Robert Roda Police Officer White male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2009
Andre Figueiredo Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2009
Randy Rose Police Officer White male Black male, 45 years old Exonerated 2009
Jason Harris Lieutenant White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Edgard Calderon Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 43 years old Exonerated 2009
Matthew Reid Sergeant White male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Liam Swords Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 24 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Moyer Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2009
Anil Jacob Police Officer Asian male Black male Exonerated 2009
Christophe Friscia Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
John Cascone Police Officer White male Asian male, 30 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Demonda Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2009
Eric Konoski Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2009
Christophe Derco Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Simon Rashid Police Officer Asian male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2009
Christophe Kearney Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2009
Jolene Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Michael Langlois Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Philip Picciano Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 27 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Bellagamba Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Miguel Sanchez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Bellagamba Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Exonerated 2009
Eric Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2009
Theohari Koumniotes Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Sasha Rosen Sergeant White male Black male, 49 years old Exonerated 2009
John Roberts Detective White male White male Exonerated 2009
Arsenio Camilo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
John Rajan Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Gennaro Russo Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2008
Carlos Lewis Sergeant Black male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Juan Ortiz Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Exonerated 2008
Dominick Vasaturo Police Officer White male Black female, 46 years old Exonerated 2008
Francisco Ponce Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Adan Munoz Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Adan Munoz Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Joseph Richman Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Donnell Powell Police Officer Black male Unknown male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Qamar Zaman Police Officer Asian male Asian male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Qamar Zaman Police Officer Asian male Asian male, 34 years old Exonerated 2008
Fernando Guimaraes Lieutenant Hispanic male Asian male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Erick Flores Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 62 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Jacob Newman Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Nicholas Norris Police Officer Black male Unknown female Exonerated 2008
Miguel Frias Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Jose Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 61 years old Exonerated 2008
Brendan Dono Police Officer White male White male, 57 years old Exonerated 2008
Leonard Clarke Police Officer Black male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Michael Edmonds Sergeant White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2008
Derek Sambolin Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2008
Derek Sambolin Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Thomas Napolitano Police Officer White male Black male, 43 years old Exonerated 2008
Brendan Obrien Detective White male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Gregory Pekera Sergeant White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Simon Rashid Police Officer Asian male Refused male, 27 years old Exonerated 2008
Alonzo Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Thomas Fusco Police Officer White male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2008
Victor Charles Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Zoilo Encarnacion Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Zoilo Encarnacion Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Corey Gresko Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2008
Lynn Ruger Police Officer White female Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2008
Dany Fana Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2008
John Cascone Police Officer White male Black female, 36 years old Exonerated 2008
Paul Aparo Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2008
Michael Tarulli Police Officer White male Black male, 43 years old Exonerated 2008
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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