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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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.

Force: Gun Pointed

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
531
Complaints
548
Allegations
628

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
Richard Bergin Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1989
Paul Perricone Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1990
Paul Perricone Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1990
Paul Perricone Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1990
Paul Perricone Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1990
Steven Berger Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1990
Timothy Mccormack Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1990
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1991
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1991
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1991
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1991
Jalin Bulding Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 1992
Joseph Delre Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1993
Sean Finn Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1993
Alfred Moberg Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Jalin Bulding Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1994
Carolyn Celona Police Officer White female Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Erlene Wiltshire Police Officer Black female Not available Exonerated 1994
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1995
Michael Reddington Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1995
Edward Balfe Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Waliur Rahman Police Officer Asian male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1995
Justin Lenz Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Louis Dellipizzi Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1995
Dino Tamayo Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Anthony Henry Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Peter Rhatigan Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1996
Thomas Dunsing Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1996
Richard Warner Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1996
Carmine Caruso Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
William Taylor Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1996
Donnamarie John Police Officer Black female Not available Substantiated (Instructions) 1996
Luis Feliciano Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 1996
Louis Dellipizzi Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1996
Erik Scantlebury Detective Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Steven Cohn Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Elliot Colon Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 1996
Scott Purcell Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Milton Calix Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 1997
Thomas Oconnor Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1997
Bruce Solomon Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1997
Felix Garcia Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 1997
Gary Calhoun Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1997
Thomas Cerbone Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1997
Jason Harris Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1997
Vincent Maher Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1997
Dawud Danielbey Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Josh Ulan Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1998
Craig Mastromatteo Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1998
Andrew Valenzano Police Officer White male Black female, 43 years old Exonerated 2000
Joseph Gulotta Sergeant White male Other Race male, 15 years old Exonerated 2001
Frank Palumbo Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2001
Edward Colucci Police Officer White male Black female, 24 years old Exonerated 2001
Louis Pepe Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2001
Curtis Crystal Sergeant White male Black male, 47 years old Exonerated 2002
Michael Seiling Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2002
James Picicci Detective White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2002
Brian Timmons Police Officer White male White male, 17 years old Exonerated 2002
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 11 years old Exonerated 2002
Benjamin Gottlieb Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Raymond Festino Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2002
David Levine Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2002
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black female, 18 years old Exonerated 2002
Karl Eckert Police Officer White male White male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Frank Burns Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2002
Pedro Bobe Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 21 years old Exonerated 2002
Christophe Devaney Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2003
Ernest Morales Lieutenant Hispanic male Black female, 57 years old Exonerated 2003
Michael Sidorskiy Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2003
Cesar Polanco Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Ernest Morales Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2003
Jesus Carrillo Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 20 years old Exonerated 2003
Douglas Lansing Detective White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2003
Audrey Wise Police Officer Black female White male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Yvonne Baez Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 12 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
David Nisthaus Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
David Nisthaus Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Joseph Collura Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2003
James Delumen Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2003
Benjamin Gottlieb Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2003
Michael Edmonds Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2003
James Eisert Police Officer White male Black female, 36 years old Exonerated 2003
Robert Pearo Police Officer White male Asian male, 36 years old Exonerated 2003
Anthony Demonte Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 26 years old Exonerated 2003
Daniel Miraglia Lieutenant White male Hispanic female, 15 years old Exonerated 2003
Trevor Baronette Police Officer Black male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2003
Robert Henderson Sergeant White male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2003
Eric Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2004
Keith Chatterton Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Dominick Nasso Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2004
Herbert Martin Police Officer White male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Patrick Gaines Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2004
Jean Louis Police Officer Black male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2004
Aubrey Henry Detective Black male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2004
Christophe Bastos Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Michael Edmonds Police Officer White male Black female, 42 years old Exonerated 2004
Terrence Rooney Police Officer White male Other Race male, 19 years old Exonerated 2004
Dustin Genco Detective White male Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Darren Caranella Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Exonerated 2004
Mario Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 14 years old Exonerated 2004
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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.
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