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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
1,145
Complaints
1,228
Allegations
1,483
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| William Froehlich | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Johnny Chalen | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Other Race female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Stephen Loffredo | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Carlos Rosario | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Steven Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
| Eddy Soriano | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Gary Aaronson | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 44 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Katrina Forrester | Detective | Black female | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Luis Gutierrez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 72 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Kathryn Ellison | Police Officer | White female | White male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Jorge Grullon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 25 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Kerine Bunsie | Police Officer | Black female | White male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Joseph Gulotta | Inspector | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Robert Lenihan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Daniel Golat | Police Officer | White male | White female, 63 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Ramon Portillo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Patrick Cahill | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Jolan Lewis | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Frederic Ortiz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Wilson Verdesoto | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Anthony Contessa | Police Officer | White male | White female, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Daniel Castillo | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Thomas Skobla | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Frederic Ortiz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Frank Ryan | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Manuel Gutierrez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Camille Mcsam | Police Officer | Hispanic female | White male, 65 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
| John Espey | Sergeant | White male | Refused female, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Mandeep Singh | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Brittany Mccarthy | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic male, 76 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Waliur Rahman | Detective | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Christophe Walsh | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Paul Kogan | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Konti Markvukaj | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Emilio Ortega | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Eugene Choi | Police Officer | Asian male | White female, 76 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Yevgeniy Zaytsev | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Edgar Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Leon Pedigo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Justin Simms | Sergeant | White male | Refused male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Louis Villegas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Alan Hassel | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| David Cowan | Detective | White male | Hispanic female, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Gina Mestre | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Ariel Urena | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christophe Aylward | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 52 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Roy Abounaoum | Detective | White male | Other Race male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jason Brown | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Austin Slamowitz | Police Officer | White male | White male, 63 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Shmuel Tenenbaum | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Gina Mestre | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Anthony Bomparola | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Michael Algerio | Police Officer | White male | White female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Brian Holshek | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 59 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Larry Meyers | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Bermaly Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Lukasz Solis | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Robert Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Jaime Arroyo | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Alexander Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Anthony Cassase | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Andrew Nash | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Steve Crozier | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Michael Mccarthy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Nicholas Ventimiglia | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| James Olson | Police Officer | White male | White female, 71 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Richard Light | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| David Gordon | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christophe Sanchez | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Tarakur Chowdhury | Sergeant | Asian male | White male, 58 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Thomas Leonardo | Police Officer | White male | Asian female, -1 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Michael Becker | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Sharif Portee | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Sharif Portee | Police Officer | Black male | American Indian female, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Leonardo Nimo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Yaritza Casul | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 64 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Steven Schwartz | Police Officer | White male | White female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Brian Ramirez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Salvatore Melore | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Iftekharul Awal | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Iftekharul Awal | Police Officer | Asian male | Black female, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jeremiah Williams | Detective | Black male | Asian female, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Michael Becker | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Coty Green | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Carlton Mckenney | Sergeant | Black male | White male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Joby Thomas | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic female, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Kevin Morgan | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Joseph Mcevoy | Detective | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Joseph Mcevoy | Detective | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Rafael Moscoso | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Brian Mahon | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Alwyn Phillips | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown female, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Gregory Kielb | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| John Hansen | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| John Peppard | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Joel Ayala | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
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.