The NYPD Files
Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
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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
176
Complaints
203
Allegations
241
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 |
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John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
David Casey | Detective | Asian male | Other Race male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Harjit Singh | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 15 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Yuseff Hamm | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Willie Johnson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Clifton Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Jacy Reese | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Willie Johnson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Scott Henderson | Detective | Black male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 1999 |
Douglas Carr | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Darryl Mack | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
David Terrell | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Ischaler Grant | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Derrick Milligan | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
William Powell | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 86 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2000 |
Rudolph Hall | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Phillip Atkins | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Colin Austin | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Karl Richards | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Phillip Atkins | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Paul Perodin | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 43 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Darnay Harris | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
Darnay Harris | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Nathan Mole | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2001 |
Scott Henderson | Detective | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Instructions) | 1999 |
Selwyn Fonrose | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2000 |
Michael Ingram | Detective | Black male | White male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2001 |
Michael Ingram | Detective | Black male | White male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2001 |
Karl Richards | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Christophe Jones | Detective | Black male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Jermaine Matos | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2004 |
Alan Gaspard | Detective | Black male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Selwyn Fonrose | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Michael Ingram | Detective | Black male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
Fernando Espindola | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Christophe Bastos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Jorge Tavarez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Fernando Espindola | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Fernando Espindola | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Frank Vega | Captain | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
Rafael Vega | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Jaime Arroyo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2000 |
Rodrigo Caballero | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
Daniel Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
John Zamot | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Manuel Matos | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2000 |
Julio Delgado | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Wilbert Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Julio Delgado | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Mario Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Christophe Bastos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Hector Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2004 |
Edwin Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Roberto Melendez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Andres Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 54 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Alberto Arce | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 65 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2000 |
James Baez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Alberto Arce | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Fabio Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 15 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Dino Tamayo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Federico Martinez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
Lissette Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
Michael Mendez | Detective | Hispanic male | White male, 44 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Angel Leon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2000 |
James Ross | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2000 |
Rafael Vega | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Ernest Morales | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2000 |
Jose Rodriguez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Michael Diaz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Jose Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2000 |
Osvaldo Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2000 |
Jose Caban | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
David Nisthaus | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Cesar Marinelli | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
Hector Rodriguez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Claudio Ramirez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Maricela Galindez | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Dustin Genco | Detective | White male | Black male, 14 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
Christophe Cooke | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Richard Bergin | Lieutenant | White male | Black female, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Richard Bergin | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2000 |
Donald Kipp | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Richard Warner | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Patrick Gaines | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Patrick Cherry | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Richard Mccarty | Detective | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2000 |
Patrick Cherry | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Patrick Cherry | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
Richard Mccarty | Detective | White male | Black male | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2000 |
Patrick Brown | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Mitchell Eisenberg | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1999 |
Michael Alleva | Detective | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Dana Czvekus | Police Officer | White female | Black male, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
John Fogelman | Detective | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
John Fogelman | Detective | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
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.