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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
Daniel Ticali	Detective	American Indian male	White male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2008
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2004
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Davinder Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	American Indian male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2014
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Raymond Abear	Police Officer	Asian male	Other Race male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Soney Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2017
Timothy Finn	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
John Donovan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Shibu Madhu	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jeffrey Liu	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Gary Washio	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 54 years old	Exonerated	2000
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2009
Khandakar Abdullah	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Eric Pena	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Stephen Lalchan	Detective	Asian male	Asian male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2017
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Lauren Au	Police Officer	Asian female	White male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2015
Eric Pena	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jack Wu	Sergeant	Asian male	Asian male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kwang Choi	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 26 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Godwin Ngai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Je Chai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mobeen Yasin	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2014
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
James Lee	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic female, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Anil Jacob	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Junaid Saeed	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Stephen Lalchan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Raymond Wong	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Karanlall Brijbukhan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Niles Prince	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jeffrey Gaston	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Gerald Stlouis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2007
Charles Awani	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2009
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daryl Melhado	Sergeant	Black male	Other Race female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Dustin Edwards	Sergeant	Black male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Ingram	Detective	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Michael Ingram	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2008
Joel Crooms	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
George Allen	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2013
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
David Lamarre	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Alwyn Phillips	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2019
George Allen	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jaysen Basnight	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2014
Titus Parham	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2008
Willus Murray	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2002
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Fabian Nembhard	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
Brian Worthington	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Jaysen Basnight	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Oghenevigh Okrokoto	Detective	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Noel Alphonso	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Anthony Wright	Detective	Black male	White male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jude Reimbeau	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2011
Leon Batson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Nathan Mole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2013
Jamaal Arthur	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2015
Kitwane Lewis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2019
James Holder	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Teddy Duroc	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Herve Francois	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kitwane Lewis	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Emilio Aponte	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
Sean Christian	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Nathan Mole	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Daniel Dallemand	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Daniel Dallemand	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Anthony Wright	Detective	Black male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Holder	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Gesner Charles	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Andre Morris	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2018
Erica Lloyd	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Fabian Nembhard	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
James Holder	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019

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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.