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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
Daniel Ticali	Detective	American Indian male	White male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Patrick Smith	Detective	American Indian male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2017
Patrick Smith	Detective	American Indian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Daniel Ticali	Detective	American Indian male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Shibu Madhu	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ramu Hiller	Detective	Asian male	Unknown male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	White female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2009
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Not available , 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Harjit Singh	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Shibu Madhu	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Newton Hun	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Allan Taeza	Police Officer	Asian male	Unknown female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Garsing Chan	Police Officer	Asian male	White female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Harjit Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Stephen Lalchan	Detective	Asian male	Asian male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Mohsin Javid	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Christophe Furda	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ramu Hiller	Detective	Asian male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kwang Choi	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
George Huang	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mobeen Yasin	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2002
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Newton Hun	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Mizbah Noor	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Soney Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Tongzhong Zhang	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mathew Cangro	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jonathan Hom	Police Officer	Asian male	Refused male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Tony Ip	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Garsing Chan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Wayne Ngor	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Azeez Quadri	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Joe Chen	Sergeant	Asian male	White male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Minh Tran	Sergeant	Asian male	Unknown female	Unsubstantiated	2016
Tony Chacko	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Timothy Finn	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Nanhao Chen	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Donald Climaco	Police Officer	Asian male	Other Race male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Ramu Hiller	Police Officer	Asian male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Kai Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Ralph Clement	Sergeant	Asian male	White female, 50 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Kwang Choi	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
George Huang	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Mobeen Yasin	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Tongzhong Zhang	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Andrew Nguyen	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Muhammed Ali	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Keith Cheng	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Iftekharul Awal	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Mizbah Noor	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Peter Ahn	Sergeant	Asian male	Unknown female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Raghunan Ramroop	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Tejinder Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Allan Taeza	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Satinderpa Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Satinderpa Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Thomas Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Allan Taeza	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Donald Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Raymond Kwong	Sergeant	Asian male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2009
Garsing Chan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Garsing Chan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Wayne Ngor	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Wayne Ngor	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Nicholas Obrien	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
Malcolm Liu	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Hadi Saifi	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Hadi Saifi	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Hassan Raza	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Stephen Lalchan	Detective	Asian male	Asian male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Lawrence Wang	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Timothy Finn	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jonathan Ku	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Nanhao Chen	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Oh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Donald Climaco	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ramu Hiller	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	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.