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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
Joseph Spina	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Michele Butera	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Jovaniel Cordova	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2013
Carlos Corporan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2013
Brian Dobbins	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Eric Healy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2013
Piero Lasaponara	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2013
Scott Lieneck	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Gustavo Ochoa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2013
Clifford Louis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kevin Colvin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Roman Goris	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	White male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Bryan Cullen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Pete Massa	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2013
Robert Deferrari	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Denny	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kwame Kipp	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Dawud Danielbey	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Belinda Delgado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert Hawreluk	Police Officer	White male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Charlie Little	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Luis Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Aaron Lohman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Charles Arnone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Anis Nikocevic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Ryan Puglisi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Joseph Augello	Police Officer	White male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Leonardo Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Tatiana Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2012
Joseph Padula	Sergeant	White male	White male, 61 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Lee Wittek	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Aaron Lohman	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Exonerated	2012
Jacob Giannelli	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Michael Weber	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jon Westendorf	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2012
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2012
Christophe Capone	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Bryan Pocalyko	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Albert Castillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2012
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Pulice	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Matthew Buonaspina	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Keith Gallagher	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Paul Kearon	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Exonerated	2012
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Matthew Fried	Detective	White male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Cesar Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Nicholas Canepa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2012
Bruce Ceparano	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2012
Christophe Muller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Stephen Dimassa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Charles Francis	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Felix Concepcion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2012
Michael Hansson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2012
Tancredo Contreras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
John Musante	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
John Musante	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Frank Lupo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Aleksandr Pasynkov	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Aaron Klein	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Anand Bhoj	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Nercy Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Sean Downes	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2012
Michael Corsello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Joseph Mcevoy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2012
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2012
Robert Brenzel	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Joseph Mcevoy	Police Officer	White male	White male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Frank Sarrica	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jolene Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Wesley Fradera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2012
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	White male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Dennis Friendly	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2012
Delisa Brownsmith	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Camilo Rosario	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Philip Vaccarino	Police Officer	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Philip Vaccarino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Gesner Charles	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
John Gumpel	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Manolin Molina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lenin Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Lydia Figueroa	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Grieco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2012
Wilding Aguasanta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Pierce	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Joseph Cruzado	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jason Forgione	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Martin Gimenez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012

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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.