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Discourtesy: Word

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

2,120

Complaints

3,293

Allegations

3,942

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
Jimmy Bonilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
James Berk	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Greaney	Detective	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Barbara Fischer	Lieutenant	White female	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Ricardo Cuenca	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Lazo Lluka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Lazo Lluka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Sean Liscoe	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 44 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Guy Gargano	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Guy Gargano	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Guy Gargano	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Guy Gargano	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Johnpaul Giacona	Police Officer	White male	Not available female	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Mack Lipinski	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mack Lipinski	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mack Lipinski	Detective	White male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Matthew Lombardo	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Johnny Chalen	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Francisco Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Johnpaul Giacona	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Daniel Dallemand	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Marksberry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Matthew Mozdziak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Johnpaul Giacona	Police Officer	White male	Not available female	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Michael Daly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Edgar Gonzalez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Hector Vargas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Miguel Donovan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brandon Gembecki	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Victor Borg	Police Officer	White male	White male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Luke Gasquez	Sergeant	White male	White female, 46 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Jacob Habib	Detective	Black male	White male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Daniel Kern	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Mejia	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Anis Nikocevic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2015
Brian Lauler	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 15 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Miguel Donovan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Peter Guido	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Fernando Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Fernando Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Matthew Palmieri	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ronald Remo	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joseph King	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Walter Warkenthien	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Romano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Pepe	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ernesto Crisostomo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
James Burke	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Noel Gutierrez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Refused male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Bennett Shelley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Raso	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Raso	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
George Katris	Detective	White male	Black female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Christophe Davis	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Thomas Boller	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jose Goris	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 15 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Sergeant	White male	White male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Greg Desideri	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Herbert Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Herbert Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Paul Mccarthy	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jason Barish	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Danny Aguilar	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Josue Vassallo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2015
Wilfredo Benitez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Sean Pallone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
John Tancredi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Unknown female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Unknown female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Pawel Lachowski	Sergeant	White male	Unknown female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jessica Romance	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jessica Romance	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Lodico	Detective	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Matthew Dias	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Cozart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Angel Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Francesco Cusimano	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Latoya Paradise	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Timothy Kraft	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Carlos Viera	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Whelan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Edward Boyle	Police Officer	White male	White male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Angel Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Giuseppe Gentile	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Sean Higgins	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Keith Knight	Detective	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Musolino	Police Officer	White male	White female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jason Cira	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015

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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.