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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Brown | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Brian Mahon | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Steve Crozier | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Leon Pedigo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Michael Carnacchio | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Aleksandr Kovalenko | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Keyana Kendall | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic female, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jaime Arroyo | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Austin Slamowitz | Police Officer | White male | White male, 63 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Richard Light | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Kevin Brennan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Salvatore Melore | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Mordecai Austrie | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 32 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 |
| Steven Schwartz | Police Officer | White male | White female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Shmuel Tenenbaum | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Michael Mccarthy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Nicholas Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Louis Villegas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Gina Mestre | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jeremiah Williams | Detective | Black male | Asian female, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Veronica Martino | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Jason Ribeiro | Detective | Asian male | Black female, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Joel Ayala | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Joby Thomas | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic female, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Golat | Detective | White male | Black female, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Brian Holshek | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| John Manzo | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| David Cowan | Detective | White male | Hispanic female, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jeffrey Liu | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Carlos Corporan | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Gabriel Nacelewicz | Detective | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Robert Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Yael Magori | Lieutenant | White female | White female, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Robert Clark | Sergeant | White male | Other Race male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Pietranico | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Gabriel Cuadros | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christine Oakley | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 64 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Carlos Corporan | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Nicholas Ventimiglia | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Joseph Mcevoy | Detective | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Lukasz Solis | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Yaritza Casul | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 64 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Edmundo Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Joel Ayala | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Herbert Medina | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Juan Candelario | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Michael Bletcher | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Jimmy Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Angel Andujar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Michael Greaney | Detective | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Nicholas Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| William Froehlich | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Elmer Pastran | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Refused male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Patrick Cahill | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Camille Mcsam | Police Officer | Hispanic female | White male, 65 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
| Johnny Chalen | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Other Race female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| James Astuto | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 52 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| John Espey | Sergeant | White male | Refused female, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Manuel Gutierrez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Matthew Mozdziak | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Daniel Golat | Police Officer | White male | White female, 63 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Stephen Loffredo | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Theohari Koumniotes | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Joseph Gulotta | Inspector | White male | Black female, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Shibu Madhu | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Michael Gaine | Detective | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Joseph Gulotta | Inspector | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| John Hansen | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Jose Velasquez | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Julio Meyreles | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Atara Ashford | Sergeant | Hispanic female | Black female, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Sicelin Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 69 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Angel Thevenin | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Refused female, 73 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Joseph King | Police Officer | Black male | White female, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Brittany Mccarthy | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic male, 76 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Salvatore Melore | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Henry Daverin | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Brian Volpi | Police Officer | White male | White female, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Kathryn Ellison | Police Officer | White female | White male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
| Henry Daverin | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Edward Guzik | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 67 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| William Taylor | Deputy Inspector | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Luis Gutierrez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 72 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Paul Kogan | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Wael Jaber | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 42 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Ryan Hoffmann | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Michael Mccarthy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| William Taylor | Deputy Inspector | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Bryn Stayfer | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic male, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Risel Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Dana Ladson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Frederic Ortiz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Samuel Hui | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Frederic Ortiz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Mark Sinatra | Sergeant | White male | White female, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
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.