Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

Discourtesy: Gesture

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
49
Complaints
49
Allegations
51

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
Ralph Clement Sergeant Asian male White female, 50 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2013
Nanhao Chen Lieutenant Asian male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Charles Awani Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Stacey Ellis Police Officer Black female Black female, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Richard Dixon Detective Black male Hispanic male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Calvin Searcy Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
Kelly Maldonado Police Officer Black female White male, 48 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Joey Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Iselaine Guichardohermenegi Police Officer Hispanic female Other Race female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Concepcion Robles Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 61 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Jacob Suarez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Alejandro Rivas Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 62 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Jacob Suarez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Sergio Hernandez Detective Hispanic male White male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Migdalia Ramos Police Officer Hispanic female Asian male, 33 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Carlos Fabara Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Kirth Buckley Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Emilio Estevez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Ernesto Bautista Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Mayko Matos Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
David Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Eric Ruiz Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Peter Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Jason Sanders Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Bernard Corso Police Officer White male Black female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Darrell Lowe Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Montgomery Summa Lieutenant White male White male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Christophe Lembo Police Officer White male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Michael Sikos Police Officer White male Refused male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
David Sammarco Police Officer White male Black female, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Keith Silardi Police Officer White male Black female, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Alexi Serpani Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Lisa Bonsignore Police Officer White female Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Mccarthy Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Jeffrey Mayo Police Officer White male Unknown male, 22 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2005
Andrew Beirne Police Officer White male White female, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Richard Ernyey Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Frank Muirhead Police Officer White male Black female, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Richard Pignatelli Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Black male, 61 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Black female, 59 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
John Facchini Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
James Haley Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Scott Rizzo Police Officer White male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
James Mazzola Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Ernst Police Officer White male White male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Matthew Monkowski Police Officer White male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Elvis Cole Police Officer White male Black female, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Jared Fox Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Isaac Souchak Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Eric Konoski Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
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.
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