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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
981
Complaints
1,170
Allegations
1,405

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
Anthony Leitao Police Officer White male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2009
Phillip Johnson Police Officer Black male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Victoria Lafauci Detective White female White male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Gerald Cucchiara Police Officer White male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2009
Frank Desiderato Police Officer White male White male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Brian Holshek Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Phillip Atkins Detective Black male Black male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Robert Nugent Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2009
Robert Nugent Sergeant White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Timothy Kraft Police Officer White male Hispanic male Unsubstantiated 2009
Herve Francois Police Officer Black male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Eric Konoski Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Mathew Reich Detective White male White male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Mathew Reich Detective White male White female Unsubstantiated 2009
Christophe Friscia Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Luke Denesopolis Sergeant White male White male, 25 years old Exonerated 2009
Katrina Forrester Police Officer Black female Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Joseph Azevedo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Jacy Reese Police Officer Black male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Thomas Nicoletti Police Officer White male White male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Gregory Pekera Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
David Cuce Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 25 years old Exonerated 2009
Rikkie Dookie Police Officer Black male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2009
Gregory Pekera Sergeant White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Michael Raso Sergeant White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Edgard Calderon Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 43 years old Exonerated 2009
Sasha Rosen Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2009
Sasha Rosen Sergeant White male Black male, 49 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2009
Sasha Rosen Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Yurantz Assade Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2009
Michael Bellagamba Police Officer White male Unknown male Unsubstantiated 2009
Robert Roda Police Officer White male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Charles Cavallaro Police Officer White male Black female, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Gilbert Barkman Sergeant White male Other Race male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Nathaniel Anthony Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2009
Gilbert Barkman Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 24 years old Exonerated 2009
Patrick Horkan Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Christophe White Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2009
Mathew Reich Detective White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Exonerated 2009
Stephen Schoefer Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Christophe Devaney Lieutenant White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Frantz Souffrant Police Officer Black male Black male, 43 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Joseph Ricotta Sergeant White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2010
Erik Nelson Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Charlie Little Police Officer Black male Black female, 25 years old Exonerated 2010
Anthony Proscia Detective White male Black male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Waziri Rumala Police Officer Black male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Thomas Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 14 years old Exonerated 2010
James Armstrong Sergeant White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2010
Dmitry Durets Sergeant White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2010
Erik Depasquale Police Officer White male White male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Francisco Ponce Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Dmitry Durets Sergeant White male White female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2010
Christophe Alvarado Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
William Butler Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2010
Alfredo Brewster Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Mario Morales Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Christophe Alvarado Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Ferdi Memedoski Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Min Kim Police Officer Asian male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2010
Patrick Craig Police Officer White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Daniel Zollo Sergeant White male Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Christophe Goldrick Police Officer White male White male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Theohari Koumniotes Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Paul Scocca Police Officer White male American Indian male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Christophe Beckett Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Jude Reimbeau Sergeant Black male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2010
Matthew Pena Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Timothy Jaycox Sergeant White male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Sonia Belardo Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2010
Edgar Clases Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Matthew Zito Police Officer White male Other Race male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Sandra Mamanicampos Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic female, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Jason Harris Lieutenant White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2010
Matthew Zito Detective White male Hispanic male, 47 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Kevin Whelan Sergeant White male Black female, 52 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Cesar Polanco Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Phillip Atkins Detective Black male Black male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Christophe Derco Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Ronald Perez Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Nicholas Norris Police Officer Black male White male, 40 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2010
Kenny Valladares Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Michael Sidorskiy Police Officer White male Black male, 52 years old Exonerated 2010
Richard Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 34 years old Exonerated 2010
Thomas Alps Lieutenant White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2010
Felix Concepcion Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Kevin Kavanagh Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Irene Bonicadelgado Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Raymond Higgins Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Michael Miller Sergeant White male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2010
Marcin Drozniak Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2010
Dean Campbell Police Officer Black male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2010
Kevin Casey Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 34 years old Exonerated 2010
Joe Green Police Officer Black male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
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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