The NYPD Files
Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.
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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
399
Complaints
484
Allegations
556
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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Juan Lopez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Kevin Mazza | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Thomas Galati | Captain | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2001 |
David Terrell | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Claudio Ramirez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Mack Lipinski | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Kevin Matthews | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Kevin Paynter | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Carlos Lewis | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Terence Odonohoe | Sergeant | White male | White male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
John Parente | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Claudio Ramirez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
John Hopkins | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Lorenzo Johnson | Captain | White male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Ernest Morales | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Ernest Morales | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male | Exonerated | 2008 |
John Becerra | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Anthony Demonte | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Ryan Habermehl | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Paul Pizzuta | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Dion Edwards | Detective | Black male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Francisco Perez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 55 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Brian Gill | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
John Parente | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Kenneth Tysdal | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
John Hopkins | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
John Hopkins | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Eric Beckel | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Thomas Casey | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Richard Dixon | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Paul Prendergast | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Ernest Morales | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Peter Ievolo | Sergeant | White male | Other Race male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Michael Cronin | Sergeant | White male | Other Race male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Michael White | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Michael Cronin | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Paul Dubrosky | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Raymond Festino | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Matthew Escudero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Keith Degiorgio | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
David Nisthaus | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Paul Farella | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Juan Ortiz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Ignazio Conca | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
John Moynihan | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
David Oconnell | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Ernest Morales | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Nikolaos Stefopoulos | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Christophe Siani | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Carl Roadarmel | Detective | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2000 |
Felix Espinal | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
John Hopkins | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
John Hopkins | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Brian Ellensohn | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Oghenevigh Okrokoto | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Michael Alfieri | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Justin Cracchiola | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Richard Romance | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
David Leonardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Elliot Colon | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black female, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Sean Mchugh | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Pete Massa | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Peter Ievolo | Sergeant | White male | White female, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Kevin Deleon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Osvaldo Nunez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Robert Bracero | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Thomas Woods | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Michael Bowman | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Michael White | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Juan Burgos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Francis Bryant | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Michael Miller | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Blas Colon | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Emilio Melendez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Jason Harris | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Andrew Kinsella | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Kevin Kavanagh | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
William Ditomaso | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Michael Lipetri | Captain | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Sean Mccarthy | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Kevin Kavanagh | Sergeant | White male | White male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Christophe Owen | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Kevin Gallagher | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Matthew Francis | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Edward Barry | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2001 |
Ricardo Bocachica | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Larry Burnham | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Larry Burnham | Lieutenant | White male | Black female, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Brian Nyhus | Sergeant | White male | Unknown male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Mohammed Rios | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Frank Sarrica | Detective | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
David Oconnell | Sergeant | White male | Unknown male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Kevin Maloney | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Jason Valentino | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 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.