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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
Teara Wilson	Sergeant	Black female	White female, 50 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Mark Finelli	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
John Pirando	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Jorge Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2008
Frederick Reyes	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frederick Reyes	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Chad Manzi	Sergeant	White male	White male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Peter Efthimiou	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Anthony Borelli	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joseph Pierce	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Dicecco	Sergeant	White male	White transwoman (mtf), 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
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
Donald Abrams	Sergeant	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Raymond Festino	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Tony Chacko	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael Raso	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mackenson Nelson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Raymond Festino	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2002
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Joshua Bienvenue	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Philip Picciano	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Burt Antoine	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Timothy Burke	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
Kevin Judge	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Jorge Torres	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kevin Judge	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Luis Cabrera	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Dicecco	Sergeant	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Licitra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2004
Robert Kelly	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Robert Kelly	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Thomas Oconnor	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Jorge Tavarez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Melvin Moultrie	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
James Mcgarry	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Juan Burgos	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 69 years old	Exonerated	2019
Noel Gutierrez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Refused male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Mejia	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Mejia	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
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
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2002
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Not available , 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Kwame Kipp	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert Clark	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Richard Cohen	Sergeant	White male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Anis Nikocevic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2015
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Diana Pichardo	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Diana Pichardo	Sergeant	Hispanic female	White male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Nanhao Chen	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Diana Pichardo	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Joseph Matzinger	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Diana Pichardo	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2015
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Angel Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Diana Pichardo	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Juan Burgos	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 69 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
David Powers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Matzinger	Sergeant	White male	Unknown female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Miguele Amoresano	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Gavigan	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert Henderson	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Matthew Bourbeau	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Miguele Amoresano	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Matthew Bourbeau	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
David Grieco	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
David Grieco	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Stephen Solcany	Sergeant	White male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Justin Simms	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Benjamin Gottlieb	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011

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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.