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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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Jose Cintron | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
Jonathan Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
Frank Fiorenza | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Thomas Lodico | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Thomas Lodico | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Franklin Bohr | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
David Cowan | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Matthew Kreisman | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Nikolaos Stefopoulos | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Michael Johnston | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Crystal Williams | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Maribel Burgos | Sergeant | Hispanic female | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Jonathan Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Joel Riveragonzalez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Namel Holguin | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Daniel Shaw | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
Bruce Ceparano | Captain | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
Robert Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Joseph Cordones | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Michael Ernst | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Arthur Leahy | Detective | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Jeremy Banfield | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Franklin Bohr | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Deodat Urprasad | Deputy Inspector | Asian male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
Brian Mahon | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Emile Pratt | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Daniel Silverio | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Kyle Riegel | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
Andy Roque | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
Christophe Ward | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Emile Pratt | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Anthony Romero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Monica Delvalle | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Alan Chau | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Omar Birchwood | Lieutenant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
Alan Chau | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Marcos Gonzalez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
Thomas Napolitano | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Thomas Napolitano | Detective | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
Thomas Weil | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Ernest Morales | Deputy Inspector | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Jesse Lance | Deputy Inspector | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
Gabriel Cuadros | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Chris Palmeri | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Michael Sena | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
John Keane | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Gary Calhoun | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Nicholas Canepa | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Daniel Shaw | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Angel Gonzalez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
Luis Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
Lauren Orourke | Detective | White female | Not available | Exonerated | 2018 |
Carl Pattelli | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
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.