Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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Abuse of Authority: Stop

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
1,473
Complaints
1,701
Allegations
2,300

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
Steven Ramunno Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2007
William Taylor Lieutenant White male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2007
Juan Pichardo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2007
Willie Artiles Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 46 years old Exonerated 2007
Christophe Greiner Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2007
Victor Paribello Police Officer White male Black male Exonerated 2007
Jorge Rodriguez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2007
Michael Eschmann Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Kaz Daughtry Police Officer Black male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2007
Rob Lewis Police Officer Black male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2007
Jeremy Demarco Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Louis Leblanc Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 33 years old Exonerated 2007
Gilbert Barkman Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Exonerated 2007
Carlos Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Rashan Lacoste Police Officer Black male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2007
Michael Park Police Officer Asian male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2007
Anthony Russo Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Andrew Kinsella Detective White male White male, 31 years old Exonerated 2007
Herminio Baez Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Jeremiah Williams Police Officer Black male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Patrick Sullivan Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2007
Herminio Baez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2007
Jose Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2007
Nicole Gondry Police Officer White female Black male, 12 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
James Marcinek Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Mourad Mourad Police Officer Black male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
William Gavigan Police Officer White male Black female, 20 years old Exonerated 2007
Angel Delgado Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
William Larkin Police Officer White male White male, 58 years old Exonerated 2007
Patrick Cortright Lieutenant White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Angela Morris Sergeant Black female Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Emilio Aponte Police Officer Black male Black male Exonerated 2007
David Cowan Detective White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2007
Damon Martin Sergeant Black male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2007
Christophe Paul Police Officer White male Black male, 11 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Jeannette Rivera Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Damian Vizcarrondo Detective Hispanic male Refused male, 38 years old Exonerated 2007
Michael Fitzgibbon Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2007
Damian Vizcarrondo Detective Hispanic male White female, 25 years old Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2007
Vito Nicoletta Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Joseph Bermudez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Brian Stassi Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Kevin Matthews Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Exonerated 2007
Mark Kistoo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Daniel Ticali Detective American Indian male Other Race male, 34 years old Exonerated 2007
Marco Gonzalez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2007
Joseph Ross Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Terrell Anderson Police Officer Black male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2007
Michael Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 20 years old Exonerated 2007
Kenneth Dwyer Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Jeannette Rivera Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Jason Sharp Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2007
Michael Burke Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Victor Dejesus Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2007
Luis Machado Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 59 years old Exonerated 2007
Francisco Pina Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 40 years old Exonerated 2007
Jeremiah Williams Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Justin Caballero Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Brian Manning Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Exonerated 2007
Joseph Cruzado Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Tiery Samuels Police Officer Black female Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Michael Mitchell Police Officer Black male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Wilson Quiles Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Robert Dress Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2007
Pedro Rios Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Adam Seidenberg Detective White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2007
Richard Zacarese Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2007
Sasha Rosen Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2007
Timothy Schultz Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
James Lukeson Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
James Slavin Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Ricardo Bocachica Detective Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Angelo Cuozzo Detective White male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Sasha Rosen Police Officer White male White male, 78 years old Exonerated 2007
Nerys Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2007
Zoilo Encarnacion Sergeant Hispanic male White male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Christophe Oconnor Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Christophe Winiarz Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
James Delumen Detective White male Hispanic male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Eric Reynolds Police Officer Black male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Jerry Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 21 years old Exonerated 2007
John Tancredi Police Officer White male Black male, 14 years old Exonerated 2007
John Tancredi Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2007
Michael Cronin Sergeant White male Black female, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Michael Cronin Sergeant White male Black female, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Edwin Ferreira Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 18 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2007
Luke Denesopolis Sergeant White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2007
Alvin Pizarro Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2007
Thomas Casey Sergeant White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Joseph Stynes Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Joseph Brunetti Police Officer White male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Marco Gonzalez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2007
Frank Galati Detective White male Black male, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Michael Gibbs Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2007
Siu Lam Police Officer Asian male White male, 23 years old Exonerated 2007
Thomas Woods Detective White male Black male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Michael Ignatz Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
David Creely Police Officer White male Unknown male, 12 years old Exonerated 2007
Dustin Edwards Police Officer Black male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 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.
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