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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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.

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
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Unknown male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Shaun Tanner Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Joseph Bieniewicz Police Officer White male White male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Patrick Smith Police Officer American Indian male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Jeffrey Mayo Police Officer White male Unknown male, 22 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2005
Christophe Lawrence Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Zoilo Encarnacion Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Dustin Genco Detective White male Hispanic male, 53 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Kirth Buckley Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 40 years old Exonerated 2005
Rodrigo Caballero Detective Hispanic male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Jean Louis Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Johanna Urena Police Officer Hispanic female Refused male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Mario Moreno Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 35 years old Exonerated 2005
Jose Acevedo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Justin Cracchiola Police Officer White male Black male Unsubstantiated 2005
Miguel Marte Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Daniel Pietranico Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 19 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Lipetri Lieutenant White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Ignazio Selvaggio Police Officer White male White female, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Frank Tarantola Lieutenant White male White male, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Joseph Lafata Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2005
Christophe Lembo Police Officer White male White male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Jesus Capo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Gene Etoria Sergeant White male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2005
John Todaro Sergeant White male Black female, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Eric Downes Police Officer Black male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2005
Ohmeed Davodian Police Officer White male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Brian Mccloskey Police Officer White male White male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Patrick Gaines Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Jean Louis Police Officer Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Michael Sykora Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Mahmoud Attia Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Robert Winslow Police Officer Black male Black male, 14 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Anthony Salato Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2004
Frank Sarrica Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Robert Nugent Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Ohmeed Davodian Police Officer White male Other Race male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Jose Rodriguez Detective Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2004
Freddy Dominguez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2004
Thomas Wright Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Mahmoud Attia Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Martin Toczek Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Patrick Cherry Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Gregory Pekera Sergeant White male Black female, 39 years old Exonerated 2004
Peter Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2004
Christophe Price Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Ignazio Selvaggio Police Officer White male White male, 52 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Tyrone Thompson Police Officer Black male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Thomas Kid Sergeant White male White male, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Felix Graciani Police Officer Hispanic male Other Race male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Yvonne Baez Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 12 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Christophe Marrow Sergeant White male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Ernest Morales Lieutenant Hispanic male Black female, 57 years old Exonerated 2003
Rodney Harrison Sergeant Black male Not available male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Emily Rivera Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2003
James Armstrong Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2003
Kevin Matthews Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Kevin Matthews Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Alex Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Brian Farrelly Police Officer White male White male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Marco Balboni Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Jean Louis Police Officer Black male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Michael Sidorskiy Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2003
Colin Caesar Police Officer Black male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Steven Weiss Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2003
Carlos Silva Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Joseph Collura Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Scott Mateyaschuk Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2003
John Miata Police Officer White male Unknown male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Carlos Fabara Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Michael Goldreyer Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Darnay Harris Police Officer Black male Black male Unsubstantiated 2002
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Kevin Matthews Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Raymond Festino Sergeant White male Black male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Vincent Maher Police Officer White male White male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Edward Barry Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 31 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Federico Martinez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2002
Michael Gibbs Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Kevin Matthews Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Edward Young Police Officer Black male Other Race male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Willus Murray Police Officer Black male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Osvaldo Nunez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
William Simon Police Officer White male Black female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Christophe Lagrasta Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Franklin Bohr Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Joseph Gulotta Sergeant White male Other Race male, 17 years old Exonerated 2001
Paul Digiacomo Detective White male White male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Titus Parham Police Officer Black male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2001
Christophe Cantelmi Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Vernon Kendrick Police Officer Black male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Anthony Longobardi Police Officer White male White male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Ischaler Grant Sergeant Black male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2001
Robert Corbett Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2001
Vincent Virbukas Police Officer White male White male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2001
Michael Catusco Sergeant White male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
David Demelia Police Officer White male Black male, 37 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Angel Leon Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2000
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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