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Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darryl Schwartz | Detective | White male | Hispanic female, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Francisco Diaz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Michael Scally | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Elmer Pastran | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Roodly Demorcy | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 52 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| James Holder | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 60 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Henry Daverin | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Elmer Pastran | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jason Guzman | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 57 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Alberto Pizarro | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Raymond Russo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Robert Dominicci | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Joseph Villarreal | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Stephen Allocca | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Matthew Sabella | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Garrett Taverna | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Bryan Ortiz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Frank Recca | Police Officer | White male | White male, 52 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Matthew Lambert | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Danny Aguilar | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| James Gale | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Aleksandr Kovalenko | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Leo Bonacasa | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| David Bleck | Police Officer | White male | White male, 75 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Colin Austin | Lieutenant | Black male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Frank Desiderato | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Timothy Gaven | Detective | White male | Black female, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Vincent Dima | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Timothy Gaven | Detective | White male | Black female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Volodymyr Burdeynyy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Matthew Librizzi | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 36 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Julio Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Julio Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Richard Danese | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Ariel Klepadlo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jena Leocadio | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 49 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Wilfredo Benitez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Brett Woodard | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Eleodoro Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Richard Danese | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Timothy Gaven | Detective | White male | Black female, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| David Fitchik | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Ryan Snavely | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Joseph Schwaner | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Frank Ryan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Michael Mccarthy | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Liam Ohara | Detective | White male | Black female, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Juan Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Raymond Wong | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 52 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Philippe Vukosa | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Steven Lopez | Detective | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Jonathan Taveras | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Andre Morris | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Vincent Siraco | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 47 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Louis Dambrosio | Detective | White male | Unknown not described, 27 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Eric Iocco | Police Officer | White male | White male, 62 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Michael Alpers | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| David Fitchik | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Liam Ohara | Detective | White male | Black female, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| David Grieco | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Cory Levy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Isaac Souchak | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Lawrice Crawford | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Jose Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| James Holder | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Charles Cavallaro | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Sean Collins | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 24 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| John Becerra | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available , 59 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| Edgar Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Kevin Mccarthy | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Kristina Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 52 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Michael Calle | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Thomas Smith | Captain | White male | Hispanic female, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Mike Suarez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Liam Ohara | Detective | White male | Black female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
| Bryan Polster | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Stephanie Mazza | Police Officer | White female | Other Race male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Joshua Marte | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| George Taylor | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Gabriel Cuadros | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Anderson Ortiz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Eduard Nogol | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Eduard Nogol | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Joseph Campbell | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Filastin Srour | Lieutenant | White female | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Kiesha Lawhorne | Police Officer | Black female | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Angelo Pizzarro | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Oscar Nunez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Michael Whelan | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Darren Sukennikoff | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Aleksandr Pasynkov | Sergeant | White male | White male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Pedro Vallecillo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Elmer Pastran | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jack Dagnese | Police Officer | White male | White male, 73 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Kevin Nicoll | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Soney Varghese | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Jack Dagnese | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Michael Gagliardi | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Robert Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Anthony Lamberti | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
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.