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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
Romaine Wilson	Sergeant	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2018
Romaine Wilson	Sergeant	Black male	Black female	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Brian Tiernan	Sergeant	White male	Asian female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Lawrence Bosch	Sergeant	White male	White male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Troy Luis	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Troy Luis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
William Glynn	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
William Glynn	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Raymond Tomins	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Raymond Tomins	Sergeant	White male	Refused female, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Trevor Baronette	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Valenzano	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Howard Zweben	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Refused male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Trevor Baronette	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Scott Henderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2002
John Keane	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Scott Henderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Howard Zweben	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jose Santory	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Keane	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jose Santory	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jose Santory	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Lopuzzo	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Edwin Soto	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Victor Torres	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Rommelle Chin	Sergeant	Black female	White female, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Barbara Fischer	Sergeant	White female	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Forrest Hirsch	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Vincent Fontana	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black female	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Dmitry Durets	Sergeant	White male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jason Guzman	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Colin Caesar	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Dmitry Durets	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2010
David Cuce	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
David Cuce	Sergeant	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joel Rosenthal	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Genti Bektashaj	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joseph Cordones	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Annmarie Guerra	Sergeant	Hispanic female	White female, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Patrick Quigley	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Patrick Quigley	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Pawel Lachowski	Sergeant	White male	Unknown female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2015
Barbara Fischer	Sergeant	White female	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Francis Drummond	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Persio Polanco	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2006
David Oconnell	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brian Nyhus	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Emile Provencher	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Federico Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2002
Richard Pignatelli	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Alfred Moberg	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brian Byrnes	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Lopuzzo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Barbara Fischer	Sergeant	White female	Black female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ronald Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ronald Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Lopuzzo	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 45 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2012
Jose Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Bekim Kalicovic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Bekim Kalicovic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Bekim Kalicovic	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Bekim Kalicovic	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jose Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jose Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Danny Aguilar	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Bryan Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2018
Alfred Moberg	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Howard Roth	Sergeant	White male	Unknown female, 13 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Anand Bhoj	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Alexandru Anghel	Sergeant	White male	White male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alexandru Anghel	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Alexandru Anghel	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Alexandru Anghel	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Alexandru Anghel	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
William Sommer	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jose Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004

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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.