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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
98
Complaints
106
Allegations
125
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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Lorenzo Johnson | Captain | White male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Brian Nyhus | Captain | White male | Black female, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Timothy Skretch | Captain | White male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
Anthony Longobardi | Captain | White male | White female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Philip Rivera | Captain | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Gary Messina | Captain | White male | Black female, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Lorenzo Johnson | Captain | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Elliot Colon | Deputy Inspector | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
David Terrell | Detective | Black male | Black male, 50 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Paul Ortiz | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Jamar Goddard | Detective | Black male | Unknown female, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Joseph Fernandez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Christophe Dede | Detective | White male | Black female, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Jennifer Lavelle | Detective | White female | Hispanic female, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Leandro Castro | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 32 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2014 |
Brian Fleming | Detective | White male | Black female, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Scott Cote | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Nicholas Neve | Detective | White male | Black female, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
James Baez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Mike Civil | Detective | Black male | White male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Javier Velez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Dennis Friendly | Detective | Black male | Black female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Clifton Clarke | Detective | Black male | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
James Zozzaro | Detective | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Richard Bevers | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
James Baez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 70 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Daniel Alessandrino | Detective | White male | Black female, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Tyrone Thompson | Detective | Black male | Black female, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Byran Pitts | Detective | Black male | Hispanic male, 59 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Nicholas Neve | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Thomas Dunsing | Detective | White male | Other Race male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Jose Cintron | Detective | Hispanic male | Not available male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Essence Jackson | Detective | Black male | Black female, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Katrina Forrester | Detective | Black female | Black female, -1 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Waliur Rahman | Detective | Asian male | Black female, 78 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Waliur Rahman | Detective | Asian male | Hispanic female, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Gennaro Russo | Detective | White male | Black male, 57 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Lawrence Hotaling | Detective | White male | Black female, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Thomas Ramirez | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Johnpaul Slater | Detective | White male | Black female, 60 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Carlos Marchena | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Nicholas Neve | Detective | White male | Black female, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
James Walsh | Detective | White male | Black female, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Peter Valentin | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Andrew Fago | Detective | White male | Hispanic female, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Andrew Fago | Detective | White male | Black female, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Erik Nelson | Detective | White male | Black female, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Jason Levy | Detective | White male | Black female, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Michael Fahmy | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Daniel Baca | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Steven Acevedo | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Lawrence Hotaling | Detective | White male | Black female, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Brian Mullen | Inspector | White male | Black male, 57 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
William Taylor | Inspector | White male | Black female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Welington Feliz | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black female | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Frank Jurs | Lieutenant | White male | Black female, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Paul Mcmahon | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Joaquin Morales | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black female, 64 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Christophe Furegno | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Nelson Ayala | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Samuel Maria | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Mark Ward | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Barbara Arroyo | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Barbara Arroyo | Police Officer | White female | Black female, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Jose Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 66 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
James Miles | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Kellan Oneill | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Maricela Galindez | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Leonard Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Jamaal Miller | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 77 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Guy Gargano | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Alhadys Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
James Romano | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Anthony Salato | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Anthony Gonzalez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jena Leocadio | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Adam Dumelle | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Jose Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
James Zozzaro | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Dion Edwards | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Michael Burke | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 35 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Derrick Milligan | Sergeant | Black male | Black female, 52 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Frank Kish | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Frank Kish | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 66 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Anthony Borelli | Sergeant | White male | Unknown male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Shane Killilea | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Paul Prendergast | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Shane Killilea | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
David Grieco | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Robert Clark | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Matthew Lewis | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 79 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Kevin Devine | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Paul Scocca | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 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.