Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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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
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.
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