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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
John Facchini Detective White male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Christophe Ward Lieutenant White male Hispanic female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
David Mejia Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Kimm Cruse Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Lamont Gibson Sergeant Black male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Kevin Morgan Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
John Facchini Detective White male Asian female, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Idris Guven Lieutenant White male Refused male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Ernst Police Officer White male White female, 67 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jose Cordero Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jacobo Garay Police Officer Hispanic male Other Race male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
William Simon Detective White male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Frank Ryan Police Officer White male Other Race male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Triston Trunk Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Patrick Smith Detective American Indian male Unknown male Unsubstantiated 2017
Thomas Guy Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jonathan Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
John Chavatte Sergeant White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jonathan Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2017
Jalal Ali Police Officer White male Asian male, 23 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Hemadeh Fattah Detective White male Black female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Brian Holshek Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Melvin Moultrie Sergeant Black male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Farid Aliyev Sergeant White male Asian female, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Matthew Lambert Police Officer White male Unknown male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Peter Besse Police Officer White male Black male, 14 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Elias Vazquez Police Officer Hispanic male Other Race male, 40 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Joseph Villarreal Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Peter Besse Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Peter Borisenko Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Patrick Smith Detective American Indian male Hispanic male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Thomas Nicoletti Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Donald Abrams Sergeant White male Black male, 70 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Richard Light Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Peter Besse Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Jonathan Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Sheila Ramos Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Sharif Portee Police Officer Black male Black female, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Angela Polancobrito Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic female, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Hassan Gheith Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
David Grieco Sergeant White male Other Race male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Farid Aliyev Sergeant White male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
William Diab Lieutenant White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Daniel Campbell Lieutenant White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Deodat Urprasad Deputy Inspector Asian male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Pedro Vallecillo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Kristo Cevi Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Kristo Cevi Police Officer White male Black female Unsubstantiated 2017
Tarakur Chowdhury Sergeant Asian male White male, 58 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Tarulli Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Brian Mcginn Inspector White male White male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Joseph Schneider Police Officer White male Black female, 50 years old Exonerated 2017
Kristo Cevi Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Loeffel Police Officer White male White female, 28 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
German Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 14 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
German Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 14 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Daniel Boylan Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Michael Tarulli Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Frank Bulzoni Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Ariel Urena Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Kristo Cevi Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Iftekharul Awal Police Officer Asian male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Heinz Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Nicholas Kane Police Officer White male Unknown male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Thomas Cancilla Police Officer White male White male, 30 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Kimm Cruse Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Leonard Clarke Police Officer Black male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Leonard Clarke Police Officer Black male Black female, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Christian Cayenne Police Officer Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Christian Cayenne Police Officer Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Not available , 60 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Mitchell Eisenberg Detective White male Refused not described, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Charles Cavallaro Sergeant White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Maribel Burgos Sergeant Hispanic female Hispanic female, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Vincent Tulipano Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
John Londono Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Alexander Lopez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Charles Cavallaro Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Lawrence Bosch Sergeant White male White male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Luis Santiago Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
John Londono Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Elvin Gashi Detective White male Black female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Quran Mcphatter Police Officer Black male Other Race male, 46 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Edmundo Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Joshua Marte Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Matthew Lewis Sergeant White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
William Taylor Deputy Inspector White male Other Race male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Mirjan Lolja Police Officer White male Black female, 24 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Dany Fana Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Edgar Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Gina Mestre Police Officer Hispanic female White female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Juan Castillo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Gina Mestre Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Daniel Oh Police Officer Asian male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
James Biondo Police Officer White male White female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Soney Varghese Police Officer Asian male Black male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Byran Pitts Detective Black male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Philip Smith Police Officer White male White male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
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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