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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
Joseph Nicosia	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Neils Veras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Chiusano	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Cea	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Paul Mccarthy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Veneziano	Captain	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Keith Weber	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Steven Weiss	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brendan Dono	Police Officer	White male	White male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ryan Loomis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jon Derise	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Felix Gross	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ryan Olsen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brian Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Dustin Edwards	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Greg Desideri	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Vincenzo Dimartino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Massari	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Jacob Giannelli	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brian Dobbins	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Mcloughlin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jon Derise	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Yaris Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rob Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Lopuzzo	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 45 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2012
Tristan Parker	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Welington Feliz	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brian Newberry	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Calle	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Anthony Lamberti	Police Officer	White male	White male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kenny Valladares	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Hansson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Michael Geraldi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Gukelberger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jon Derise	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
James Burpoe	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2012
Lydia Figueroa	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daquan Bendele	Sergeant	Black male	Asian male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Jose Ortiz	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 69 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Stephen Espinoza	Captain	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Zontini	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Pamela Benites	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ronald Bolte	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Ronald Bolte	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Daniel Mckeefrey	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Keith Gallagher	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Morris	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rosa Soto	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Michael Alfieri	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Callinan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jason Valentino	Police Officer	White male	White male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Newton Hun	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Donald Alexandre	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Anthony Lafemina	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Martin Gimenez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Silverio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Philip Picciano	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Frank Lupo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Scott Samarisi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Scott Samarisi	Police Officer	White male	White female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available female	Unsubstantiated	2012
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Frederick Reyes	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Juan Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Castaldo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Edwin Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Louis Campanella	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Jeffrey Arceo	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Brian Mccloskey	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Megan Fortunato	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Reed	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Haigh	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
George Bonner	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Frank Muirhead	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jose Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Vincent Ciardiello	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Joseph Fernandez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Osvaldo Nunez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jorge Tavarez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jared Fox	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jared Fox	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Jeremy Veit	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jacob Aaronson	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Brian Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Leek	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Lampert	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Stephen Polesovsky	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Sasha Brugal	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Yevgeniy Zaytsev	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	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.