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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keith Degiorgio | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1998 |
| Eddie Lott | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 1999 |
| Michael Baldassano | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1999 |
| Deodat Urprasad | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 23 years old | Exonerated | 1999 |
| William Powell | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 1999 |
| Bruce Solomon | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 1999 |
| Richard Gibson | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 33 years old | Exonerated | 1999 |
| Joseph Matthew | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2000 |
| Brian Mcginn | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2000 |
| Jeannette Brenes | Police Officer | White female | Black female, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2000 |
| James Delumen | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2000 |
| John Bastedenbeck | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2000 |
| John Dorst | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2000 |
| Kevin Gallagher | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2000 |
| Anthony Quagliariello | Detective | White male | White male, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2000 |
| Lawrence Fiorello | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2000 |
| Manuel Matos | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2000 |
| Daniel Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Christophe Valis | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Steven Green | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Joyce Williams | Police Officer | Black female | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Mark Kurys | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Joseph Matthew | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Ischaler Grant | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
| Dustin Genco | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Brian Mcginn | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Thomas Alps | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Aluthea Caviness | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Ischaler Grant | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
| Edward Colucci | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Charles Barberi | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Justin Lenz | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Frank Vega | Captain | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2001 |
| Joseph Gulotta | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Robert Lotufo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Brian Mcginn | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2001 |
| Raymond Jansen | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2001 |
| Andrew Bershad | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Michael Lipetri | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| John Essig | Deputy Inspector | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
| Benjamin Gottlieb | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Keith Bryan | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Angel Arroyo | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Jason Schwartz | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Joseph Gulotta | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Anthony Demonte | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
| Joseph Bell | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
| Thomas Galati | Deputy Inspector | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
| Brian Mullen | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| John Mcdonnell | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Kevin Maloney | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Anthony Davila | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| James Picicci | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Paul Deentremont | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Rodney Harrison | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Alexander Grandstaff | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
| Donald Abrams | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Norberto Tirado | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Donald Kipp | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| John Caruso | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Keith Bryan | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Mark Dipaolo | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Richard Currao | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| David Casey | Detective | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| John Essig | Deputy Inspector | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Robert Kelly | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| David Casey | Detective | Asian male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
| Thomas Galati | Deputy Inspector | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Thomas Galati | Deputy Inspector | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Frank Burns | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Joseph Dipreta | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Phillip Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Patrick Davis | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
| Michael Lipetri | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Robert Henderson | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Emilio Melendez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Manuel Matos | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Herbert Martin | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
| Robert Schierenbeck | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Gregory Abrahams | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Michael Manzolillo | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| John Gogarty | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Frank Vega | Captain | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Herbert Martin | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Brian Mcginn | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
| Kirth Buckley | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Patrick Brown | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
| Paul Gaglio | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Daniel Miraglia | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Brian Mcginn | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Rodney Harrison | Sergeant | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| John Ulmer | Detective | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Alejandro Rivas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Aubrey Henry | Detective | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Steve Lafortune | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Kenneth Dwyer | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
| Keith Walker | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
| Patrick Davis | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 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.