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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
Michael Cronin	Detective	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	1998
George Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	1998
Richard Currao	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1998
Richard Currao	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	1998
Steven Green	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	1998
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Exonerated	1999
Mark Oconnell	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1999
Deodat Urprasad	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 17 years old	Exonerated	1999
Joseph Bell	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Paul Mcmahon	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Cyress Smith	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Kris Kalmanowicz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Michael Cronin	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Craig Crisfield	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Exonerated	1999
Mark Lanigan	Sergeant	White male	Not available female, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	1999
Patrick Davis	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	1999
Barbara Fischer	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Ronald Bolte	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Edward Colucci	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Kevin Matthews	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Joseph Delre	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, -4301 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Richard Adamiak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Douglas Lansing	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2000
Christophe Cunha	Sergeant	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Jose Peinan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2000
Jeannette Brenes	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
John Timpanaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2000
Joseph Tallarine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Joseph Tallarine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
John Trotta	Lieutenant	White male	White female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Gerald Heanue	Detective	White male	Asian male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Roger Savage	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2000
Osvaldo Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Frank Knight	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Michael Gaine	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Marianela Tejada	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Anthony Longobardi	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Justin Dengler	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Andrew Mcevoy	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Pete Massa	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Louis Pepe	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Howard Shank	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Selwyn Fonrose	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Jose Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Kenneth Oconnor	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Justin Dengler	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 8 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
John Hoffman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Marie Smith	Police Officer	Black female	Not available female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2000
Alexander Grandstaff	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
William Simon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
William Simon	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Michael Licitra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Corey Grable	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Ischaler Grant	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Ischaler Grant	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Darryl Chen	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Victor Appel	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2001
Rudolph Hall	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Joey Quigley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Alexander Grandstaff	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Javier Valentin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 60 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2001
Matthew Lamendola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Fernando Espindola	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Ischaler Grant	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Dustin Genco	Detective	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Christophe Cantelmi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Jeannette Brenes	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2001
Joseph Brunetti	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Frank Palumbo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2001
Thomas Oconnor	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Vincent Virbukas	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2001
Patrick Cherry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Franklin Bohr	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Black female	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Stephen Chan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2001
John Potkay	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Anthony Longobardi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Michael Miller	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Isaac Branch	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 101 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Patrick Gaines	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Peter Murtsef	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2001
Robert Lotufo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Marianela Tejada	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
David Cowan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Christophe Daly	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Joey Quigley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Robert Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Karl Richards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Michael Oconnor	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Michael Gibbs	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Gustavo Blain	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Federico Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2002
Michael Gibbs	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Kevin Matthews	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002

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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.