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Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
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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 |
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Jacob Giannelli | Police Officer | White male | Asian female, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Jason Harris | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Timothy Heines | Detective | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Eugene Jonny | Detective | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Michael Kelly | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Michael Kelly | Detective | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
John Livingston | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
John Livingston | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
John Livingston | Detective | White male | Hispanic female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
John Livingston | Detective | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
James Mccullough | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Bruce Sutherland | Police Officer | White male | White male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Gabriel Nacelewicz | Detective | White male | Black female, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Gabriel Nacelewicz | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Vito Nicoletta | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Vito Nicoletta | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Vito Nicoletta | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Vito Nicoletta | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Brian Nyhus | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
David Oconnell | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 61 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black female | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Thomas Kid | Sergeant | White male | White male, 44 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Thomas Kid | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Kevin Byrnes | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Patrick Cortright | Lieutenant | White male | Not available , 9 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
John Hoffman | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2000 |
John Hoffman | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Louis Campanella | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
Frank Danzi | Police Officer | White male | White female, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Patrick Davis | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1999 |
Patrick Davis | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Robert Deferrari | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Brian Farrelly | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
Brian Farrelly | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Brian Farrelly | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Michael Korabel | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Carlos Nieves | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Timothy Rogers | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Michael Haigh | Police Officer | White male | White male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Marcello Massafra | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
Sean Murphy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Sean Murphy | Police Officer | White male | White male, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Timothy Kraft | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Carl Roadarmel | Detective | White male | Hispanic female, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
Stephen Schoefer | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Philip Hirsh | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Matthew Mancuso | Police Officer | White male | White male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2016 |
John Oconnor | Sergeant | White male | White male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Sean Pallone | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
David Shimshi | Sergeant | White male | White female, 57 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
Bryn Stayfer | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic male, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Neil Zuber | Police Officer | White male | White female, 52 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Louis Dambrosio | Detective | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Louis Dambrosio | Detective | White male | Unknown not described, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Christophe Derco | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Christophe Derco | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Randy Rose | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Randy Rose | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Kevin Roughneen | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2003 |
Walter Warkenthien | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
James Trapasso | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Walter Warkenthien | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 52 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Matthew Zito | Detective | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Matthew Zito | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Christophe Bobell | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Christophe Bobell | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2013 |
Robert Turbiak | Police Officer | White male | White male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2007 |
Robert Turbiak | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Joseph Cruzado | Detective | White male | Black female, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Joseph Cruzado | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Joseph Cruzado | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Edward Deighan | Sergeant | White male | Other Race female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Brian Ellensohn | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Brian Ellensohn | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Scott Martin | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2004 |
Scott Martin | Detective | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Richard Zacarese | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 47 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
William Waldron | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
William Waldron | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Andrew Duguid | Detective | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Andrew Erato | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Erik Depasquale | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Daniel Castronova | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
Daniel Castronova | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
William Diab | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
William Diab | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
William Diab | Lieutenant | White male | Black female, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Ryan Dowling | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Ryan Dowling | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Michael Dunn | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jerry Wolvers | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
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.