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Discourtesy: Action
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
286
Complaints
305
Allegations
316
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 |
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William Taylor | Deputy Inspector | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Casey Morgan | Police Officer | White male | Not available female, 38 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2006 |
Nico Hewitt | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
Benzion Cohen | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Joseph Bell | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1999 |
Martin Maloney | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (No Recommendations) | 2010 |
Seth Lynch | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Emilio Melendez | Captain | Hispanic male | Not available male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
Ray Dutton | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Kevin Cox | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Kenneth Harris | Police Officer | Black male | Not available male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Paul Oconnor | Police Officer | White male | American Indian male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Jonathan Re | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Francisco Ponce | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Fernando Caches | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Atara Ashford | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Asian male, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Christophe Harris | Police Officer | Black male | Asian female, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Michael Lunetta | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Marika Williams | Police Officer | Black female | Asian male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Gregory Gianacopulos | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Angelo Machicote | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
George Bonner | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2008 |
Patrick Cherry | Detective | White male | Asian male, 47 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Gerald Heanue | Detective | White male | Asian male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2000 |
Christophe Doll | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Suhail Sofizada | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
David Ramirez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Vladimir Garcia | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Daniel Sitruk | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Kyle Stanley | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Aaron Lohman | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 75 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Tyler Angelo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
William Neville | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Evan Nielsen | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Orlando Phillip | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Christophe Debonis | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 72 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
John Facchini | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Gerald Cucchiara | Detective | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Nicholas Garafola | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Shkelzen Ahmetaj | Detective | White male | Black female, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Leonardo Viera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Eli Slavkin | Police Officer | White male | Black female | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Michael Haigh | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
William Diab | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Denis Samuylin | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jay Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Thomas Morton | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2019 |
John Ferrara | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Vito Poliseno | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Samuel Hui | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Sean Mchugh | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Brett Woodard | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
William Sommer | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Burt Antoine | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Peter Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Kevin Morgan | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Lawrence Perrotta | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Michael Doyle | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2004 |
Reuben Antwi | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Scott Henderson | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
William Tergesen | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Timothy Rogers | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Melvin Moultrie | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Shilendra Sawh | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Kishon Hickman | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Kishon Hickman | Lieutenant | Black male | Black male, 44 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Brian Mccarthy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Rodrigo Caballero | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Charles Gove | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
James Longo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Kenneth Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
James Haviland | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Enver Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Anthony Cimmino | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Stephen Schmitt | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Patrick Smith | Police Officer | American Indian male | Black male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Leon Batson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
Chris Palmeri | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Jason Barish | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 57 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Kitwane Lewis | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Kitwane Lewis | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
David Sammarco | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 56 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Charles Gove | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Richard Adamiak | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2001 |
Fitzroy Vigilance | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Paul Chierico | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Gregg Minardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Francine Delvalle | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 18 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
Michael Mccarthy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Franklin Pierrelouis | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Cory Smith | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
John Zorrilla | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Darren Caranella | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 51 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
Edwin Ferreira | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black , 90 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Jeffrey Mota | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2019 |
Paul Kearon | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Franklyn Aizaga | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Louis Villegas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 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.