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Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
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26th Precinct
This page contains allegations that were filed against officers who were serving at this precinct or in this unit at the time an incident is alleged to have occured. A complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.
Officers with Complaints
20
Complaints
26
Allegations
61
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 | Allegation | Officer Details | Complainant Details | CCRB Conclusion | Year Received |
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Andrew Valenzano | Police Officer | Force: Gun Pointed | White male | Black female, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2000 |
Yuseff Hamm | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest | Black male | Black male, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Yuseff Hamm | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search | Black male | Black male, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Kieran Creighton | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Kieran Creighton | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Kieran Creighton | Lieutenant | Force: Physical Force | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Rolando Carbonell | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2004 |
Rafael Iturralde | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Rafael Iturralde | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Black male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Rolando Carbonell | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest | Hispanic male | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Rolando Carbonell | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Other | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Rolando Carbonell | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Rolando Carbonell | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Black male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Wilbert Rodriguez | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search | Hispanic male | White male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Wilbert Rodriguez | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) | Hispanic male | White male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Wilbert Rodriguez | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Yuseff Hamm | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Black male | Black male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Rafael Iturralde | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2004 |
Rafael Iturralde | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Other | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Michael Scoloveno | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Michael Scoloveno | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop | White male | Black female, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Michael Scoloveno | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Michael Scoloveno | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search | White male | White female, 31 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Michael Scoloveno | Police Officer | Force: Pepper Spray | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Michael Scoloveno | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property | White male | Black female, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Michael Scoloveno | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Marcy Velez | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Marcy Velez | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Question | Hispanic male | Black female, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Marcy Velez | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Summons | Hispanic male | Black female, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Marcy Velez | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Ronnie Morales | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Marcy Velez | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Marcy Velez | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Frisk | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Ronnie Morales | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Ronnie Morales | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Ronnie Morales | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Frisk | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Robert Cattani | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Ronnie Morales | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Hispanic male | White male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Welington Feliz | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Benjamin Gottlieb | Sergeant | Discourtesy: Word | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Welington Feliz | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Welington Feliz | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Question | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Welington Feliz | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Frisk | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Freddy Tavares | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Question | Hispanic male | Black male, 67 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Freddy Tavares | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) | Hispanic male | Black male, 67 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Freddy Tavares | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Frisk | Hispanic male | Black male, 67 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Freddy Tavares | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Hispanic male | Black male, 67 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Welington Feliz | Lieutenant | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Barry Stokes | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | American Indian male | Black male, 67 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
John Andryuk | Sergeant | Discourtesy: Word | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Eleodoro Mata | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Eleodoro Mata | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Action | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Edson Brutus | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | Black male | White female | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
Edson Brutus | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest | Black male | Asian female, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Edson Brutus | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Black male | Asian female, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Edson Brutus | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | Black male | Asian female, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Christophe Torturo | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Marydanie Sessomsswinea | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Shield Number | Black female | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
Alula Haileselassie | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest | Black male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Alula Haileselassie | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | Black male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
Marydanie Sessomsswinea | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name | Black female | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
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.