Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

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
Peter Duke Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2003
Donald Abrams Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Christophe Wit Police Officer White male White male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
William Sommer Police Officer White male Black female, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Scott Mateyaschuk Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Scott Mateyaschuk Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2003
Aubrey Henry Detective Black male Black female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Kevin Roughneen Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 43 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2003
Colin Austin Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Stephen Espinoza Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 66 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
James Kelly Police Officer White male Asian female, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Pedro Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Anthony Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 14 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Peter Rhatigan Police Officer White male Black female, 31 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Rafael Vega Police Officer Hispanic male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2003
Kurt Jones Police Officer Black male Black female, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Michael Goldreyer Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Steven Weiss Police Officer White male Black female, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Mario Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Felix Graciani Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2003
Paul Prendergast Police Officer White male White male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
William Waldron Police Officer White male Black female, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Benjamin Gottlieb Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2003
Alejandro Rivas Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 62 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Daniel Miraglia Lieutenant White male Hispanic female, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Ernest Morales Lieutenant Hispanic male Black female, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Frank Galia Police Officer White male Unknown male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Christophe Pasquale Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Ernest Morales Lieutenant Hispanic male Black female, 57 years old Exonerated 2003
Anthony Kotarski Sergeant White male Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Daniel Miraglia Lieutenant White male Hispanic female, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
John Miata Police Officer White male Unknown male Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Patrick Gaines Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Vincent Grego Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Darren King Police Officer Black male Black female, 48 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Joseph Matzinger Police Officer White male Black female, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Christophe Marrow Sergeant White male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
John Miata Police Officer White male Unknown male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Frank Palumbo Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Brian Depalo Police Officer White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2003
William Ditomaso Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Brian Depalo Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2003
Frank Palumbo Police Officer White male Black female, 55 years old Exonerated 2003
Kenneth Aube Police Officer White male White female, 43 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Kappa Farid Police Officer White male White female, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Vaughan Ettienne Police Officer Black male White male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Peter Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Brian Depalo Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Bruce Sutherland Police Officer White male White male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Edward Herrera Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
James Mazzola Police Officer White male Black female, 20 years old Exonerated 2003
Ernest Morales Lieutenant Hispanic male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Felix Graciani Police Officer Hispanic male Other Race male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Francis Bryant Police Officer Black male White male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Rafael Vega Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Andrew Hatki Lieutenant White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Trevor Baronette Police Officer Black male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Keith Walker Police Officer White male Black male, 14 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
James Mcgarry Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2003
Thomas Kid Sergeant White male White male, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Audrey Wise Police Officer Black female White male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Frank Tarantola Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 28 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2003
Robert Henderson Sergeant White male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Michael Guzzino Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Robert Falcone Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
David Powers Detective White male Black female, 38 years old Exonerated 2003
Allan Taeza Police Officer Asian male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Robert Kelly Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2003
Joseph Stynes Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
William Mcdaniel Police Officer White male Unknown male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Darren King Police Officer Black male Black female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Richard Pignatelli Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Kevin Devine Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Victor Borg Police Officer White male White female, 65 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Eric Shanley Police Officer White male Asian male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Brian Timmons Police Officer White male White male, 17 years old Exonerated 2002
Brian Timmons Police Officer White male White male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Michael Gibbs Police Officer White male Black female, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Michael Gibbs Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Michael Lipetri Sergeant White male Unknown female Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Robert Smith Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Colin Austin Police Officer Black male Black female, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Hector Lopez Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Patrick Cherry Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Luis Bellapianta Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Richard Currao Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Christopher McCormack Sergeant White male Hispanic not described, 37 years old Exonerated 2002
Richard Turk Detective White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
David Casey Detective Asian male Other Race male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
David Casey Detective Asian male White male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2002
Herbert Martin Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
William Gattis Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 28 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2002
Anna Serrano Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Peter Efthimiou Sergeant White male Black female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Michael Windsor Police Officer Black male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Michael Oconnor Police Officer White male Black female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Robert Henderson Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
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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