Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged

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
349
Complaints
358
Allegations
386

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
Javier Santos Lieutenant Hispanic male Black female, 46 years old Exonerated 2016
Robert Mcginn Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2006
Danny Aguilar Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 36 years old Exonerated 2007
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black female, 41 years old Exonerated 2002
Robert Delaney Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1997
Daniel Oh Police Officer Asian male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2015
Robert Carbone Detective White male Black female, 63 years old Exonerated 2019
Michael Heinz Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Exonerated 2017
Robert Obrien Police Officer White male Black female, 56 years old Exonerated 2020
Michael Edmonds Sergeant White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2008
Mark Lanigan Sergeant White male White female Exonerated 2001
Steven Weiss Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 43 years old Exonerated 2004
Joseph Cruzado Police Officer White male Black female, 25 years old Exonerated 2005
Edward Boyle Police Officer White male Unknown female Exonerated 2009
Jesus Capo Detective Hispanic male Unknown male, 17 years old Exonerated 2015
John Essig Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1987
Malachi Mckenith Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 42 years old Exonerated 2014
Piero Lasaponara Detective White male Black male, 61 years old Exonerated 2018
John Caruso Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2005
Jose Dejesus Detective Hispanic male Black female, 41 years old Exonerated 2005
Alex Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 41 years old Exonerated 2010
Michael Edmonds Sergeant White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2008
Janson Pena Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 48 years old Exonerated 2015
Jose Camacho Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 40 years old Exonerated 2012
George Sullivan Police Officer White male Black male, 14 years old Exonerated 1998
John Moynihan Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 1999
Trevor Baronette Sergeant Black male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2014
Willus Murray Police Officer Black male Black male, 54 years old Exonerated 2002
Anthony Longobardi Lieutenant White male White female, 72 years old Exonerated 2014
Giovanni Giovanniello Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2005
Carlos Fabara Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic female, 49 years old Exonerated 2005
Kevon Husband Police Officer Black male White female, 53 years old Exonerated 2017
Kenneth Vencak Police Officer White male White female, 47 years old Exonerated 2010
Christophe Lembo Police Officer White male White female, 46 years old Exonerated 2005
Derek Epstein Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2010
Walter Warkenthien Police Officer White male Black male, 53 years old Exonerated 2015
Eliot Arias Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 46 years old Exonerated 2013
Renninton Belen Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 27 years old Exonerated 2011
Erik Scantlebury Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 1996
Roberto Suarez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 31 years old Exonerated 2007
Hassan Paris Police Officer Black male Black female, 38 years old Exonerated 2019
Dominick Raso Police Officer White male Other Race male, 41 years old Exonerated 2014
Theodore Federoff Captain White male White female, 71 years old Exonerated 2016
Michael Driscoll Detective White male White female, 60 years old Exonerated 2014
Richard Reilly Detective White male Black female, 45 years old Exonerated 2005
Carlos Velez Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 55 years old Exonerated 2018
Thomas Manning Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2017
Robert Morris Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2017
James Walsh Detective White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2016
John Uske Police Officer White male Black female, 79 years old Exonerated 2017
Dalsh Veve Police Officer Black male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2009
Kevin Breen Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Exonerated 2010
Edgar Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2018
Kevin Breen Lieutenant White male Black female, 19 years old Exonerated 2014
Lawrence Fiorello Police Officer White male Black female, 33 years old Exonerated 2000
Aleksandr Kovalenko Sergeant White male Black female, 44 years old Exonerated 2017
Ali Cheikhali Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2016
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 50 years old Exonerated 2011
Ali Cheikhali Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2016
Richard Vetrano Lieutenant White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2011
Bennett Shelley Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 56 years old Exonerated 2013
Javier Fernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 23 years old Exonerated 2008
Joseph Signorile Sergeant White male Black female, 50 years old Exonerated 2019
Derek Wilkins Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2017
Christophe Crain Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2007
Anthony Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 53 years old Exonerated 2007
Brendan Dono Police Officer White male White male, 57 years old Exonerated 2008
William Sommer Sergeant White male Black female, 68 years old Exonerated 2009
Thomas Napolitano Detective White male Black female, 39 years old Exonerated 2016
Jocelyn Peralta Sergeant Hispanic female Other Race female, 53 years old Exonerated 2017
Christopher McCormack Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1997
Michael Manzolillo Police Officer White male Black female, 40 years old Exonerated 2003
Matthew Delaney Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 29 years old Exonerated 2011
Christopher McCormack Lieutenant White male Black female, 49 years old Exonerated 2006
Lyndon Providence Police Officer Black male Black male, 17 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Francis Conejo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Brian Davis Police Officer Black male Black male, 55 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Mizbah Noor Police Officer Asian male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Vicnia Liz Police Officer Hispanic female Unknown male Substantiated (Charges) 2007
David Barker Police Officer Black male Black male, 35 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Paul Pizzuta Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
James Lee Police Officer Asian male White male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Thomas Reo Detective White male Hispanic male, 56 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Thomas Ailman Sergeant White male Other Race male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Mathew Cangro Police Officer Asian male Asian male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Paul Chierico Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Todd Hansen Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Mark Sinatra Sergeant White male Black male, 58 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Gregory Pekera Sergeant White male White male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Joseph Grogan Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1998
Orin Cox Police Officer Black male Asian male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Daniel Miraglia Lieutenant White male Hispanic female, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Thomas Passolo Captain White male Black male, 55 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
John Essig Deputy Inspector White male Unknown female, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Michael Greaney Detective White male Black female, 40 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Thomas Gagliardi Sergeant White male Black male, 40 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black female, 43 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Raghunan Ramroop Police Officer Asian male Refused female, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Matthew Dias Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2015
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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.
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