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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
Matthew Cahill	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph Cruzado	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Haviland	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Herve Francois	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Oghenevigh Okrokoto	Detective	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Eric Pena	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Aaron Klein	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Shibu Madhu	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kevin Mccarthy	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Erik Depasquale	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2016
Dennis Friendly	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Laborde	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
Clifton Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Elvis Alcivar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Kevin Kavanagh	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Jason Barish	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Raymond Jansen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	1999
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Thomas White	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2015
Teddy Duroc	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Jason Barish	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2016
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2003
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2007
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2008
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Michael Tarulli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jeremiah Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Rafael Figueroa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Henry Daverin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
David Pulice	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
David Pulice	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
James Zozzaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Mark Dibenedetto	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Paul Dieugenia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2007
Sean Edwards	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2001
Ryan Snavely	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2018
Emmanuel Kwo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jens Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jens Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2008
James Mcgarry	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Gregory Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Jonathan Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Raymond Festino	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2002
Donald Abrams	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Delcar Savage	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Keith Gallagher	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2012
Michael Licitra	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Mark Sinatra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mark Sinatra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Brian Holshek	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kevin Whelan	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Matthew Mccoy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
John Facchini	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Francine Delvalle	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Konstantin Genin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Michael Raheb	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mark Offenbacher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Frederick Reyes	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
Matthew Fried	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Patrick Cain	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Patrick Cain	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2010
Patrick Cain	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edgar Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
Matthew Granahan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Rosa Gonzaleznoa	Detective	Hispanic female	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ryan Galvin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Michael Langlois	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Brower	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Ryan Loomis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Dipreta	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Joseph Lessard	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Cory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ryan Duffany	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 26 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Lee Wittek	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Jeffrey Mayo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2019
Joseph Sotira	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jerome Teahan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
William Reddin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
David Cordano	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Dean Campbell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2010
Rashan Lacoste	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Daniel Dallemand	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Leandro Castro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2006

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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.