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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Gregory Abrahams Sergeant Black male Black male, 48 years old Exonerated 2006
Raymond Abreu Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
John Acconi Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Francisco Adames Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2009
Franklyn Aizaga Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Brian Alexander Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Michael Alfieri Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2014
Afzal Ali Sergeant Asian male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Francisco Allende Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Derek Almeida Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 62 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Davon Alston Sergeant Black male Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2017
Ruben Alvarez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Miguel Alvarez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Frank Amill Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2016
Frank Amill Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Anthony Andino Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Alexandru Anghel Sergeant White male Black male, 56 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Alberto Angilletta Detective White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Barbara Arroyo Police Officer White female Black female, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Angel Arroyo Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic female, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Barbara Arroyo Police Officer White female Hispanic female, 23 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Dan Ast Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2019
Emrah Ates Police Officer White male Refused male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Phillip Atkins Detective Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Phillip Atkins Detective Black male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Duane Atkinson Police Officer Black male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Duane Atkinson Police Officer Black male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Charles Awani Police Officer Black male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Joel Ayala Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Nelson Ayala Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Joseph Azevedo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Gilbert Barkman Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Trevor Baronette Sergeant Black male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2013
Edward Barry Sergeant White male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2001
Edward Barry Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
John Becerra Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2018
Eric Beckel Sergeant White male Black female, 36 years old Exonerated 2009
Eric Beckel Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 43 years old Exonerated 2009
Keith Beddows Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Merlyn Bermudez Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Jamie Blandeburgo Police Officer White female White female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Pedro Bobe Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Ricardo Bocachica Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Ricardo Bocachica Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Ricardo Bocachica Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Ricardo Bocachica Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Ricardo Bocachica Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2006
Anthony Borelli Sergeant White male Black female, 48 years old Exonerated 2007
Sekou Bourne Detective Black male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Stacy Bowen Detective White female Black female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Michael Bowman Sergeant White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2018
Elijah Boyle Detective Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Robert Bracero Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Robert Bracero Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2013
Yves Brathwaite Police Officer Black female Black female, 20 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2013
Alfredo Brewster Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2019
Richard Browne Police Officer White male Black female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Dmitry Brush Sergeant White male Not available female, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Francis Bryant Sergeant Black male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Francis Bryant Sergeant Black male Black male, 50 years old Exonerated 2013
William Buchanan Sergeant White male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
William Buchanan Sergeant White male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Maribel Burgos Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Maribel Burgos Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 58 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Juan Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 24 years old Exonerated 2009
Kimberly Burgos Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 51 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Larry Burnham Lieutenant White male Black male, 62 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Larry Burnham Lieutenant White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2007
Larry Burnham Lieutenant White male Black female, 21 years old Exonerated 2007
William Butler Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 36 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Edgard Calderon Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Dean Campbell Detective Black male Black male, 22 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Dean Campbell Detective Black male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Juan Candelario Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Michael Carrieri Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Thomas Casey Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2008
Albert Castillo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Albert Castillo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Daniel Castronova Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Daniel Castronova Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 62 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Charles Cavallaro Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Bruce Ceparano Lieutenant White male White male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Stephanie Cepeda Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 12 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Je Chai Police Officer Asian male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Je Chai Police Officer Asian male Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Richard Charles Police Officer Black male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
John Chavatte Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2005
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Darryl Chen Police Officer Black male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Jose Cintron Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Mike Civil Police Officer Black male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Mike Civil Detective Black male White male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Leonard Clarke Police Officer Black male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Edgar Clases Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Edgar Clases Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Brian Clements Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jimmy Clerge Police Officer Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Elvis Cole Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Brenton Cole Police Officer Black male Black male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
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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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