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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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Jeffrey Brienza | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
John Hopkins | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Patrick Davis | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Fernando Guimaraes | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Fernando Guimaraes | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Omar Birchwood | Lieutenant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
Bekim Kalicovic | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Larry Burnham | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2009 |
Persio Polanco | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Michael Baldassano | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1999 |
Brian Goss | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Thomas Smith | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Gary Messina | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2004 |
Enrique Santos | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Enrique Santos | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Kevin Breen | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Kevin Breen | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Kevin Breen | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Gary Messina | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Kevin Breen | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Sean Mchugh | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Sean Mchugh | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Courtney Nilan | Lieutenant | White female | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Jason Harris | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Christopher McCormack | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Gary Messina | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Richard Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Anthony Lafemina | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Frank Laquidara | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2009 |
Chantel Aloy | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Anthony Lafemina | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Steven Lopez | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Michele Herbst | Police Officer | White female | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Adam Dumelle | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Cornelius Oshea | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Christophe Kearney | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2014 |
Brenton Cole | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
Thomas Alps | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
Patrick Jean | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Anthony Lafemina | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Piero Lasaponara | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
James Wilson | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Charles Gove | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Keith Walker | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
John Ferrara | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
David Grieco | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Keith Walker | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Keith Walker | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
David Grieco | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
Rafael Maldonado | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2006 |
Kenneth Dwyer | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
David Grieco | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Daniel Young | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Franky Joseph | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Tony Cuoco | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
Walter Valentin | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Steven Owens | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2009 |
Frank Desiderato | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
David Grieco | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Daniel Jennings | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Robert Mayer | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
Herbert Martin | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Jasmin Nikocevic | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Herbert Martin | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
Michael Manzolillo | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
Paul Brauer | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Kristian Flood | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Erek Powers | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Sophia Rodriguez | Police Officer | Black female | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Mordecai Austrie | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Jason Bianchini | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Daniel Barreto | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Calvin Black | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Michael Ardolino | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
Rudy Anzalone | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2016 |
David Paray | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Michael Ardolino | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Luis Santiago | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Wilfredo Benitez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Michael Ardolino | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Michael Ardolino | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
David Paray | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Mark Xylas | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Phillip Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
Thomas Moroney | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Thomas Moroney | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
James Titus | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Charles Arnone | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2017 |
Robert Mayer | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Matthew Wright | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2007 |
Jaime Pedraza | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Charles Peifer | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Robert Orlando | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2011 |
Desmund Nichols | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Paul Padilla | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2015 |
Lesly Charles | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2005 |
Felix Arana | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
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.