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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
Robert Mcginn	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Brian Motyka	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Brian Motyka	Police Officer	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Alfred Gallicchio	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Nestor Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Craig Bier	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Alvin Gomez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Scott Leff	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Nicholas Ventimiglia	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Thomas Moroney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Thomas Moroney	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Victor Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Nathan Mole	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Goldrick	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Nathan Mole	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jason Tejada	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Allan Taeza	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mathew Cangro	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Fox	Police Officer	White male	White male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2009
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Catherine Thomas	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Angel Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Lyndon Providence	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Anthony Gulotta	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jeremy Banfield	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Oconnell	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Julio Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Steven Gabaris	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Maurice Fyffe	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Erika Espaillat	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Wilson Alba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 50 years old	Exonerated	2009
Blake Sydlo	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Spencer Garrett	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2009
Evangelos Galatas	Police Officer	White male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Wilson Verdesoto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Donald Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Victoria Lafauci	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Desmund Nichols	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2008
Nicholas Digaudio	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Alfredo Skelton	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Alex Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Domenick Lagomarsine	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Brendan Egan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Alonzo Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jorge Mergeche	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2008
John Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female	Unsubstantiated	2008
Brian Manning	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Angela Polancobrito	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Steven Lawrence	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Michael Parks	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Eric Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
Kevin Whelan	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joseph Flynn	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Frank Laquidara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Donald Alexandre	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joseph Flynn	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Orlando Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Dawn Mitchiner	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Federico Martinez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Alfred Gallicchio	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2008
Wilson Alba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jerry Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Francis Clough	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Brian Holshek	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Juan Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jens Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Anthony Cutaia	Police Officer	White male	White male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Yael Magori	Police Officer	White female	Asian male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2008
Derek Epstein	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2008
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Louis Guglielmo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 11 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jose Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Mizbah Noor	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ramiro Burgarelli	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Andy Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Anthony Kotarski	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ryan Dowling	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Mark Holder	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Daniel Young	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Barker	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race female, 70 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Lissette Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Patrick Jean	Police Officer	Black male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2008
Richard Warner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Derek Sambolin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Michael Burbridge	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008
Leonard Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Alberto Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008

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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.