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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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Krishna Tandrian | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Christophe Muller | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Persio Polanco | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Luke Denesopolis | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Dennis Friendly | Detective | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Brian Gill | Captain | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Annemarie Murphy | Sergeant | White female | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Erica Macauda | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Paul Polemeni | Detective | White male | Black female, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Kieran Creighton | Deputy Inspector | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Joseph Hayward | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
Cory Smith | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Shawn Wilkinson | Detective | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Brian Gill | Captain | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Leonard Bradley | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Milton Sanchez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
William Buchanan | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Florencio Arquer | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Terrell Anderson | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Eric Perez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Annemarie Murphy | Sergeant | White female | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Brian Goss | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Nicholas Horun | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Daquan Bendele | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
William Schumacher | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Michael Dimambro | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Sean Mcgrory | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Dayne Beissel | Police Officer | White female | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
William Tergesen | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Kevin Breen | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
John Bastedenbeck | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Trevor Baronette | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Richard Thompson | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
John Bastedenbeck | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Eric Beckel | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Trevor Baronette | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Michael White | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
James Picicci | Detective | White male | Black female, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Dennis Friendly | Detective | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Jennifer Lavelle | Detective | White female | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Vladimir Garcia | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
Keith Devine | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Florencio Arquer | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Adrian Uruci | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Adrian Uruci | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Christophe Muller | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Brian Goldberg | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Burt Antoine | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
Javier Santos | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Andrew Fago | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Dagoberto Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Todd Hansen | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Dion Edwards | Detective | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Spencer Garrett | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Essence Jackson | Detective | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Patrick Dooley | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Jose Dejesus | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Scott Henderson | Captain | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Gabriel Nacelewicz | Detective | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Shibu Madhu | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2013 |
Brian Ellensohn | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jovaniel Cordova | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2013 |
Brian Lapp | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Eduard Nogol | Police Officer | White male | White female, 54 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
John Gengo | Detective | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Joseph Hickey | Detective | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2013 |
Anthony Davila | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Abraham Badillo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Eric Delman | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Jamaal Arthur | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Michael Reinecke | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Emilio Ortega | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
John Sheedy | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
James Frascatore | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
John Pirando | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Richard Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
William Brown | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Bennett Shelley | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Jason Forgione | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2013 |
John Fennell | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
James Wilson | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Dustin Edwards | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Jason Forgione | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2013 |
Vincenzo Dimartino | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Jens Maldonado | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Michael Sogluizzo | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
David Paray | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Ryan Bracconeri | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2013 |
Robert Belle | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Stephen Espinoza | Captain | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Daniel Baca | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Lahmar Sanders | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Forrest Hirsch | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Dustin Genco | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Andrew Burgos | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
John Carnevale | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2013 |
James Kelly | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Juan Moreno | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Charles Ingrassia | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
Christophe Esposito | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2013 |
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.