Discourtesy: ACTION - The NYPD Files

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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
Emilio Melendez	Captain	Hispanic male	Not available male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	White male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Howard Shank	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Gerald Cucchiara	Detective	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Cornelius Oshea	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Patrick Cherry	Detective	White male	Asian male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Joel Polichron	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Shkelzen Ahmetaj	Detective	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Rodrigo Caballero	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Fogelman	Detective	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Andrew Fago	Detective	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Gerald Heanue	Detective	White male	Asian male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Frank Lupo	Detective	White male	White male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
David Demelia	Detective	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Darrel Oneill	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Anthony Davila	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jose Cintron	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Andrew Wunsch	Detective	White male	White male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
William Taylor	Inspector	White male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Kevin Shea	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 77 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Seth Lynch	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2014
Eric Dym	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
William Taylor	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2006
Erik Lubrano	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Wilfredo Ramos	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	White female, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Kishon Hickman	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Ryan Mcguinness	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 63 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Robert Vanhouten	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 67 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Michael Raso	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Eric Duval	Police Officer	White male	White male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ray Dutton	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2008
Thomas Morton	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2019
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
Anthony Cimmino	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Stephen Schmitt	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Fernando Caches	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Francisco Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Vito Poliseno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Darren Caranella	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Robert Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Luis Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Randall Litrell	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Dana Harge	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Stacey Hulse	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Other Race transman (ftm), 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Brett Woodard	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Tyler Angelo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Luis Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Atara Ashford	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Asian male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
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
Nico Hewitt	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2002
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
Christophe Doll	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 14 years old	Exonerated	2015
Anthony Cimmino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Derrick Mcintosh	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Juby Thomas	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2019
Leonardo Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Evangelos Galatas	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mario Bueno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Mario Bueno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Wael Jaber	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Marika Williams	Police Officer	Black female	Asian male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Reuben Antwi	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Lunetta	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Jovanna Woloski	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
Terrence Rooney	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
William Froehlich	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
David Gordon	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
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
Richard Light	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Jonathan Re	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2009
Kenneth Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Not available male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Jonathan Re	Police Officer	White male	White male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Jonathan Re	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Salvatore Lopiccolo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
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
Christophe Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Asian female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Brett Strauss	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Edwin Ferreira	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black , 90 years old	Exonerated	2011
Stephen Loschiavo	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
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
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005

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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.