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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
John Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female	Unsubstantiated	2008
John Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jorge Monge	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Anis Nikocevic	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Eddy Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Valdrin Nikqi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Erick Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Frederic Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ryan Puglisi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Fernando Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
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
Christophe Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Eddy Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Eddy Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Pablo Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Roy Abounaoum	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Sean Brown	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ronald Remo	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Romano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
James Romano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
James Romano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jason Stocker	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Vincent Virbukas	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2001
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jeffrey Adaszewski	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2017
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Anthony Lamberti	Police Officer	White male	White male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Lewellyn Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Joel Bolivar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Joel Bolivar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Bradley Field	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Bradley Field	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brian Fragliossi	Police Officer	White male	White female, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ronald Luparello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Thomas Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Thomas Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Philip Smith	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kaisser Surriga	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kaisser Surriga	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Kaisser Surriga	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Jessenia Tabb	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Alexander Wancel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Alexander Wancel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2018
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Alberto Pizarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Alberto Pizarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Daniel Ludemann	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jaipaul Ramdat	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Victor Rosario	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Derek Sambolin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Brian Volpi	Police Officer	White male	White female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Vincent Agostino	Police Officer	White male	White male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christian Cataldo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jack Dagnese	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Sean Gardner	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jelson Goyco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jason Greenberg	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jason Greenberg	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jalin Bulding	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Felix Delcarpio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Mathew Reich	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 60 years old	Exonerated	2005
Mathew Reich	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Philip Vaccarino	Police Officer	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Blase Mucciariello	Police Officer	White male	White female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Dwight Powell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kevin Devine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Kevin Devine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Kevin Devine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Dwight Powell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Mikal Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joshua Faranda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Latoya Paradise	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Carlos Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Romaine Wilson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Whelan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Romaine Wilson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Lawrence Bosch	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Hairo Franco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Sean Higgins	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Arturo Muia	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Roy Secharan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Trevor Baronette	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Trevor Baronette	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2007
Anthony Leitao	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007

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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.