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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
Emile Provencher	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kwame Kipp	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Michael Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Edwin Ferreira	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2005
Eliezer Caraballo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2005
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Douglas Carr	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jeffrey Carroll	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2004
Jerome Teahan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Felix Gross	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Luis Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Michael Licitra	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Lessard	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2004
Selwyn Fonrose	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2004
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Roberto Melendez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Joseph Matthew	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Patrick Cortright	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Christophe Lagrasta	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Thomas White	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Joseph Ricotta	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2004
Louis Pepe	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Jonathan Fox	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Cesar Marinelli	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Robert Henderson	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Michael Lennihan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2004
Clifton Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
John Hopkins	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Selwyn Fonrose	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Robert Henderson	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2004
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Michael Lopuzzo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Herbert Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2004
Richard Bergin	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Thomas Koerner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Anthony Ronda	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
John Facchini	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Christopher McCormack	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2004
Alan Gaspard	Detective	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Robert Falcone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Silvio Schettini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2003
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Silvio Schettini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2003
Rafael Vega	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Richard Quinones	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Joseph Matthew	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Roberto Melendez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Rafael Vega	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Christopher McCormack	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Christopher McCormack	Sergeant	White male	White male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2003
Brian Depalo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2003
Patrick Cortright	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2003
James Byrne	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Colin Austin	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Herminio Baez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2003
Timothy Skretch	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Robert Henderson	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Robert Henderson	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Jaime Arroyo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2003
Joseph Collura	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Willus Murray	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2002
Bryan Mcnulty	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2002
Thomas Woods	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2002
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Herbert Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Alexander Grandstaff	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2002
Kevin Gallagher	Sergeant	White male	White male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Kevin Gallagher	Sergeant	White male	White female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2002
Rudolph Hall	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Steven Mancini	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Raymond Festino	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2002
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Dominic Casalino	Sergeant	White male	Not available male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2001
Nathan Mole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Carl Roadarmel	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2001
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2001
Michael Ingram	Detective	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Thomas Galati	Captain	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2001
Sean Edwards	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2001
Gary Washio	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 54 years old	Exonerated	2000
Louis Pepe	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Brendan Owens	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2000
Brian Donoghue	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2000
Osvaldo Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000

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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.