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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
952
Complaints
1,224
Allegations
1,555
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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Adrian Uruci | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Michael Sykora | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
Christophe Pasquale | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Raymond Tomins | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Kreshnik Bakraqi | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Kreshnik Bakraqi | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Eric Beckel | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Eric Beckel | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Eric Beckel | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Eric Beckel | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Raymond Tomins | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Christophe Pasquale | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Thomas Casey | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Christophe Pasquale | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Derrick Milligan | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Damon Martin | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Damon Martin | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Damon Martin | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Damon Martin | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Damon Martin | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Shane Killilea | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Felix Concepcion | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Raymond Tomins | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
Aleksandr Kovalenko | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Robert Clark | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Raymond Tomins | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Frank Ventura | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Michael Miller | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Anthony Ronda | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Christophe Popovic | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Robert Henderson | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
Frederick Reyes | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Daniel Sarrubbo | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Richard Vetrano | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Patricio Ovando | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Erek Powers | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Emile Pratt | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Kevin Judge | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Kevin Judge | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Kevin Judge | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Kevin Judge | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Kevin Judge | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Patricio Ovando | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Emile Pratt | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Charles Peifer | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Patricio Ovando | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Damion Brown | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
Christophe Lagrasta | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Juan Moreno | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Angela Morris | Sergeant | Black female | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
Daniel Zollo | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
Christophe Lagrasta | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Harvin Hart | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Louis Latorre | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Michael Diaz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Christophe Lagrasta | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Matthew Wesolowski | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
Jessenia Tabb | Sergeant | Hispanic female | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
Angel Badillo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
Alexander Wancel | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Alexander Wancel | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Andre Washington | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Kevin Matthews | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Brian Donoghue | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2009 |
Robert King | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Fitzroy Vigilance | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2009 |
Brian Shevitz | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Seth Lynch | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Seth Lynch | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2009 |
Paul Prendergast | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Eric Francis | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Eric Delman | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Kevin Maloney | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
Gilbert Barkman | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Vitaliy Zelikov | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
William Tergesen | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Eric Francis | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Ronald Bolte | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Justin Lenz | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
Eric Downes | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Angel Arroyo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
Angel Arroyo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Joseph Durante | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Kevin Devine | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Christophe Valis | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
Richard Gibson | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 33 years old | Exonerated | 1999 |
Alan Chau | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Alan Chau | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Alan Chau | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Steven Degree | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
William Tergesen | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Kreshnik Bakraqi | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Kevin Whelan | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Mark Sinatra | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Craig Roach | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
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.