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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
Frank Palumbo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Robert King	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christophe Price	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2010
Scott Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Scott Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Scott Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Scott Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Gregory Zakoscielny	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Scott Lynster	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 10 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Scott Lynster	Police Officer	White male	White male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
James Mazzola	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2003
James Mazzola	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
James Mazzola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Pearo	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Eric Stclair	Police Officer	White male	White male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Albert Aronov	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Brian Christen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Tomasz Fil	Police Officer	White male	White male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Joseph Bell	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Joseph Bell	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Vladimir Radionov	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Vladimir Radionov	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Vladimir Radionov	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Justin Senese	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Garrett Taverna	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Garrett Taverna	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Garrett Taverna	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Garrett Taverna	Police Officer	White male	White female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Garrett Taverna	Police Officer	White male	White female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Keith Wagenhauser	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
Kevin Paynter	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
John Andryuk	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
William Butler	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Ian Abramowitz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ian Abramowitz	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Ian Abramowitz	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jeffrey Hunold	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2012
Jeffrey Hunold	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2013
Jeffrey Hunold	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
David Marconi	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2016
Konstantin Genin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Paul	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 11 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Paul	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Fadi Albishara	Police Officer	White male	White male, 62 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Patrick Fitzgerald	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Michael Fitzgibbon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Gregory Gianacopulos	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Gregory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Gregory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Gregory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Theodore Plevritis	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Theodore Plevritis	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2013
Joseph Agosta	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Agosta	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kamil Choinski	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Peter Duke	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2003
Mark Finelli	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Joseph Flynn	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joseph Flynn	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joseph Flynn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2010
Brian Manning	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Chad Manzi	Sergeant	White male	White male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Jeremy Pohl	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
John Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
John Ryan	Sergeant	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Ryan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Sarrubbo	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Daniel Sarrubbo	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Daniel Sarrubbo	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Filastin Srour	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Filastin Srour	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Filastin Srour	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Filastin Srour	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Matthew Wright	Detective	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Zanca	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mirjan Lolja	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mirjan Lolja	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Mirjan Lolja	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Paul Scocca	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
James Titus	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Titus	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Titus	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Titus	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2018
Michael Ardolino	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Ardolino	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2015
Charles Arnone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Charles Arnone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Yurantz Assade	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Charles Barberi	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Trevor Barton	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Leo Bonacasa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Leo Bonacasa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Charles Cavallaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Robert Clark	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
David Cowan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
David Cowan	Detective	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012

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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.