Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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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
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Ezequiel Gutierrez Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male Unsubstantiated 2006
Joe Frazier Police Officer Black male White male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Thomas Ailman Sergeant White male Other Race male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Anthony Gulotta Police Officer White male Unknown male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Eric Robinson Police Officer White male White male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Robert Mcginn Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2006
David Barker Police Officer Black male Black male, 35 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Mizbah Noor Police Officer Asian male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Jens Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black female, 43 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Joseph Durante Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Daniel Mufaddi Police Officer White male Black male, 63 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Norman Grandstaff Sergeant White male Asian male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Jorge Ulloa Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Alberto Pizarro Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Richard Reilly Detective White male Black female, 45 years old Exonerated 2005
John Miata Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Joseph Hickey Police Officer White male Black female, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Anthony Davila Detective Hispanic male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Jose Dejesus Detective Hispanic male Black female, 41 years old Exonerated 2005
Giovanni Giovanniello Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2005
Christophe Lembo Police Officer White male White female, 46 years old Exonerated 2005
Louis Pepe Detective White male Black female, 49 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2005
Carlos Fabara Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic female, 49 years old Exonerated 2005
Brian Ilund Detective White male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
John Caruso Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2005
Joseph Cruzado Police Officer White male Black female, 25 years old Exonerated 2005
Lowez Walker Police Officer Black male Black male, 65 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Victor Paribello Police Officer White male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Kelly Maldonado Police Officer Black female White male, 48 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Steven Weiss Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 43 years old Exonerated 2004
Frank Galati Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Cesar Marinelli Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Mahmoud Attia Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
David Leonardi Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2004
Michael Manzolillo Police Officer White male Black female, 40 years old Exonerated 2003
Hector Rodriguez Detective Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Brian Depalo Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Daniel Miraglia Lieutenant White male Hispanic female, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Anthony Contessa Police Officer White male Black female, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Robert Henderson Sergeant White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Robert Henderson Sergeant White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Alexander Grandstaff Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Willus Murray Police Officer Black male Black male, 54 years old Exonerated 2002
Orin Cox Police Officer Black male Asian male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Andrew Duguid Police Officer White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Kevin Matthews Police Officer White male Black male Unsubstantiated 2002
John Essig Deputy Inspector White male Unknown female, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black female, 41 years old Exonerated 2002
Kenneth Ayala Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2001
Mark Lanigan Sergeant White male White female Exonerated 2001
Paul Pizzuta Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Lawrence Fiorello Police Officer White male Black female, 33 years old Exonerated 2000
Kenneth Oconnor Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2000
John Moynihan Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 1999
Richard Turk Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1999
John Hoffman Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Joseph Grogan Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1998
Josh Ulan Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
George Sullivan Police Officer White male Black male, 14 years old Exonerated 1998
Erick Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Robert Delaney Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1997
Matthew Lamendola Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1997
Christopher McCormack Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1997
Salvatore Molino Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Christophe Jones Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1996
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Miltiadis Marmara Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1996
Erik Scantlebury Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 1996
John Dorst Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1996
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Sean Mcgrory Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Jalin Bulding Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1994
Sean Finn Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1993
Joseph Matthew Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1993
James Fogarty Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1993
John Essig Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1992
Thomas Cerbone Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1992
Garfield Duncan Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1989
Garfield Duncan Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1989
Garfield Duncan Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1989
Garfield Duncan Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1989
James Mccarthy Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1988
Steven Berger Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1988
John Essig Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1987
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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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