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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
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jose Dejesus	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Ching Nieh	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Evan Nielsen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jose Dejesus	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Edward Scali	Police Officer	White male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Miguel Marte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Robert Reed	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael White	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Leon Mcguire	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 72 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael White	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Miguel Marte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Brannigan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Moynihan	Sergeant	White male	Not available male	Exonerated	2005
Christophe Friscia	Police Officer	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Victor Pal	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Gogarty	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Brian Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
John Gogarty	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2005
David Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White , 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Frank Altieri	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
Javier Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
David Powers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jason Sharp	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2005
Victor Paribello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael Balicki	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2005
Charles Stewart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
William Bravo	Police Officer	White male	White female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Miata	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
David Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2005
Thomas Passolo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Martin Gimenez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Kevin Tierney	Police Officer	White male	White male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Abel Perez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Kyna Phillip	Police Officer	Black female	Other Race male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Matthew Odonohoe	Police Officer	White male	White male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Dennis Russo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Bieniewicz	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Bieniewicz	Police Officer	White male	White male, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Francisco Castillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Maria Moures	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Christophe Lembo	Police Officer	White male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Filastin Srour	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Filastin Srour	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
James Slavin	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Deodat Urprasad	Lieutenant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
George Huang	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Padula	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Marino Lorenzo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2005
Melissa Clark	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Frank Tarantola	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Robert Nugent	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Johanna Urena	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Refused male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
David Pulice	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Julio Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael Carleo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
James Longo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Terrence Cane	Police Officer	White male	Not available female	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Restaino	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Sasha Rosen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Daniel Castronova	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Andrew Erato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael Pappalardo	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Daniel Campbell	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Donald Abrams	Sergeant	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Steve Tirado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Anthony Cutaia	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Carlos Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Richard Zacarese	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Ludwig Narcisse	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2005
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Kevin Devine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael Windsor	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
James Lyons	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Edward Deighan	Sergeant	White male	Other Race female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jose Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Juan Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Bruce Ceparano	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jalin Bulding	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Mathew Reich	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 60 years old	Exonerated	2005
Eddy Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Steven Badlu	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Kevon Sample	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Evelio Herrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 71 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Alexis Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Evelio Herrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Steven Badlu	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2005
Carlos Marchena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Alexander Wancel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Diana Pichardo	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Bobby Mohip	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005

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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.