The NYPD Files
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jose Caban | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black female, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Keith Silardi | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Michael Carnacchio | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Stephen Polesovsky | Police Officer | White male | White male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Wojciech Czech | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| John Katehis | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Joseph Imperatrice | Sergeant | White male | Unknown female, 70 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Matthew Medina | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jeannette Rivera | Detective | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Harris Haskovic | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Edson Brutus | Police Officer | Black male | Asian female, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Gregory Green | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Pietranico | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Keyana Kendall | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic female, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Sean Murphy | Police Officer | White male | White male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Keyana Kendall | Police Officer | Black male | White female, 76 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Deshawn Edmonds | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Aleksandr Kovalenko | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jeffrey Liu | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Nicholas Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| John Manzo | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Gabriel Nacelewicz | Detective | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Veronica Martino | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Yael Magori | Lieutenant | White female | White female, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Carlos Corporan | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Carlos Corporan | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| John Mascetti | Police Officer | White male | White male, 52 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Bridget Courtney | Police Officer | White female | White male, 52 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Suthom Ungcharoen | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 63 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Daniel Golat | Detective | White male | Black female, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Juan Cabrera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Karanlall Brijbukhan | Detective | Asian male | Black female, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Thomas Mccue | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Robert Giery | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Edward Scali | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Yaowen Liu | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Tiffany Brucewatson | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Doreyda Munoz | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Michael Demonda | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jason Ribeiro | Detective | Asian male | Black female, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Michael Mccarthy | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Aleksandr Pasynkov | Sergeant | White male | White male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Mordecai Austrie | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Aleksandr Pasynkov | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jalal Ali | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Gabriel Cuadros | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Castaldo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christophe Schiro | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Robert Clark | Sergeant | White male | Other Race male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christine Oakley | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 64 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Kevin Brennan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Brian Alexander | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Darion Francis | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| William Diab | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Yaowen Liu | Police Officer | Asian male | Black female, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Steve Fleischhauer | Police Officer | White male | White female, 45 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Victor Borg | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Jose Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Jason Barish | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Brian Finnerty | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Steven Muskovic | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Gabriel Cuevas | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Yefersson Salasmartinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Adrian Duran | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Andrew Wunsch | Detective | White male | White male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| John Gergis | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Bryan Pocalyko | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Michael Fratangelo | Detective | White male | Black female, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Matthew Finn | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Andre Teterycz | Sergeant | White male | White female, 76 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Kimberly Lucas | Police Officer | Black female | Other Race female, 68 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Artur Espenberg | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Chanel Gomez | Police Officer | Black female | Black female, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Erek Powers | Sergeant | Black male | Black female, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Odalis Perez | Detective | Hispanic female | Black female, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Richard Light | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 63 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Dwight Powell | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Kevin Gwinn | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 70 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Nairobi Grayson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Daniel Silverio | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Brett Woodard | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| George Vrotsos | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 58 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
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.