Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)

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
710
Complaints
832
Allegations
912

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
Frank Amill Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Judith Moreno Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Nicholas Albano Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Phillip Atkins Detective Black male Black male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jason Sharp Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Kevin Mockel Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Mark Vazquez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Christophe Mcgee Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Blake Sydlo Police Officer White male White male, 38 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2009
Bryan Cullen Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Anthony Proscia Police Officer White male Black male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Kenneth Dwyer Police Officer White male White male, 31 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Orvin Feliciano Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Gregory Long Police Officer White male Black female, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Troy Peacock Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Herve Francois Police Officer Black male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Ramiro Ruiz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Tiffany Brucewatson Police Officer Black female Black female, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Christophe Kearney Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Diaz Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
John Giangrandi Police Officer White male Unknown male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Christophe Kerbis Police Officer White male Black male, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Mack Lipinski Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
James Mccullough Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Andy Cruz Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Gerald Cucchiara Police Officer White male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Taiwo Adeleke Police Officer Black female Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Phillip Atkins Detective Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Erik Depasquale Police Officer White male Other Race male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Daniel Mahoney Police Officer White male Black male, 14 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Daryl Melhado Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Steven Ramunno Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 42 years old Exonerated 2009
Stuart Wohl Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 37 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Dmitry Durets Sergeant White male White male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Howard Zweben Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Mourad Arslanbeck Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Juan Quiroz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 47 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Willie Johnson Detective Black male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Nicholas Monello Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Gerard Delprete Detective White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Nathaniel Anthony Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Eric Delman Sergeant White male Unknown male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Francisco Adames Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jason Cira Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Erik Rubinstein Police Officer White male Black female, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Merlyn Bermudez Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 14 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Lee Wittek Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Antwon Trent Police Officer Black male Unknown male, 18 years old Exonerated 2009
Orvin Feliciano Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Daniel Mufaddi Sergeant White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
John Hall Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Matthew Fried Police Officer White male White male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Sergio Merino Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Andre Figueiredo Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2008
Derek Lenart Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Ray Dutton Police Officer White male Black male Unsubstantiated 2008
Michael Szczecinski Police Officer White male Black female, 28 years old Exonerated 2008
Eduard Nogol Police Officer White male Black female, 14 years old Exonerated 2008
Kelvin Peralta Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Eric Ruiz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Zoilo Encarnacion Sergeant Hispanic male American Indian male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Zoilo Encarnacion Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 63 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Glenn Ziminski Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Theresa Callahan Police Officer White female Black female, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Jude Reimbeau Sergeant Black male Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2008
Alexandros Kalogiros Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Eli Slavkin Police Officer White male White male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Ramiro Burgarelli Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Brian Fleming Detective White male Refused male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Christopher McCormack Lieutenant White male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Jerry Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Robert Schierenbeck Detective White male Black female, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Robert King Sergeant White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Wilfredo Cruz Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 59 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Damon Martin Sergeant Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Damon Martin Sergeant Black male Black male, 17 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Derrick Milligan Sergeant Black male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
William Falcone Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Robert Dress Police Officer White male Black male, 59 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Dion Edwards Detective Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Karanlall Brijbukhan Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Black female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Black female, 16 years old Exonerated 2008
Bilal Ates Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Thomas Casey Sergeant White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Hairo Franco Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Francis Clough Sergeant Black male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Rafael Perdomo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Wilson Alba Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male Unsubstantiated 2008
Christophe Mcgee Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
David Sammarco Police Officer White male Black female, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Eric Ruiz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Willie Johnson Detective Black male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Christophe Esposito Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Francisco Ponce Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
John Rajan Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Robert Simms Detective Black male Hispanic male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Ruben Alvarez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
George Katris Police Officer White male Black female, 55 years old Exonerated 2008
Mathew Reich Police Officer White male White male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
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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