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 |
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Gary Aaronson | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
James Lukeson | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Luis Pena | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Miguel Leon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 80 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Terrell Anderson | Sergeant | Black male | White male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Jorge Rodriguez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Daniel Beddows | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Gustavo Medina | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Rafael Perdomo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Nicholas Digaudio | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Maribel Burgos | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Mark Holder | Detective | Black male | Hispanic male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Jose Acevedo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Ramiro Ruiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Jose Garcia | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Shameeka Cummings | Police Officer | Black female | Black female, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Yurantz Assade | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Duane Percy | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Barbie Lewis | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2008 |
Ana Delpilar | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Refused male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Tiffany Brucewatson | Police Officer | Black female | Black female, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Sean Mchugh | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Samantha Cabrera | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 64 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Fitzroy Vigilance | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Andrew Hunt | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2008 |
Andrew Valenzano | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 58 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Robert Admirand | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Richard Pignatelli | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Zoilo Encarnacion | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Jeannette Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Oliva Carvajalhernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 33 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2008 |
Derek Sambolin | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Barbara Fischer | Sergeant | White female | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
James Mcgarry | Sergeant | White male | Not available male | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Robert Nugent | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Christophe Mcgee | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Geemaayi Simmons | Police Officer | Black female | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Lynn Ruger | Police Officer | White female | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Corey Gresko | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Richard Gadson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Orlando Diaz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2008 |
Fernando Guimaraes | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Asian male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Nino Lama | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Amaury Soriano | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Daniel Ticali | Detective | American Indian male | Other Race male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Eric Ruiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
James Famiano | Police Officer | White male | Asian female, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Frank Baldo | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Gary Calhoun | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Peter Borukhov | Police Officer | White male | White male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2007 |
Lawrence Fiorello | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Miguel Marte | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Ray Dutton | Police Officer | White male | White male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Miguel Marte | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Sean Mchugh | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Paul Oconnor | Police Officer | White male | Asian female, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Joseph Marquez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
James Delumen | Detective | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Mike Civil | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Jamaal Miller | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Christophe Beckett | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Paul Mccarthy | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Robert Dress | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Daniel Baca | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Christophe Mcgee | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Michael Burke | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Patrick Sullivan | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
James Mcgarry | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Brenton Cole | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic female, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Francisco Pina | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Jorge Mergeche | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2007 |
Keith Cheng | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic female, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Blas Colon | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Joseph Stynes | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
John Ferrara | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Je Chai | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Robert Smith | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Mark Offenbacher | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2007 |
Alberto Angilletta | Detective | White male | White male, 58 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Anthony Cimmino | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Andrew Kinsella | Detective | White male | White male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
George Huang | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Carlos Vazquez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Mathew Reich | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Wilson Quiles | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Alexandros Kalogiros | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Pedro Romero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Emile Provencher | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Victor Paribello | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Felix Gross | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
John Fogelman | Detective | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Terrell Anderson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Lynn Ruger | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic female, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Frank Galati | Detective | White male | Black male, 56 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2007 |
Jason Reynolds | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Jeffrey Fitterman | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Brian Farrelly | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Mack Lipinski | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Eric Collazo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 47 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
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.