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Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
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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 |
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Gustavo Medina | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Florencio Arquer | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Kelvin Peralta | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Julio Micheli | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
James Conn | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 10 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
James Argila | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
George Allen | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Steven Marshall | Detective | White male | Unknown male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Jose Vasquezmiranda | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Michael Muskin | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Joseph Marquez | Detective | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Joseph Imperatrice | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Erik Nelson | Detective | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Shkelzen Ahmetaj | Detective | White male | Not available male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Matthew Lewis | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Tyler Ehrlein | Sergeant | White male | Asian male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
John Livingston | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Gerald Stlouis | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Joseph Mcevoy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Charles Arnone | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Niles Prince | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
James Seder | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Gustavo Ochoa | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Jared Rothschild | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Roy Abounaoum | Police Officer | White male | White male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
William Pugliese | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Mark Dibenedetto | Sergeant | White male | Refused male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
David Grieco | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Robert Deferrari | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Gilbert Barkman | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Michael Fitzgibbon | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Scott Lieneck | Detective | White male | Unknown male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Stephen Allocca | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 59 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Stephen Berardi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Patrick Thompson | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Brian Lapp | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Andrew Hayes | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Jon Derise | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Daniel Golat | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Shawn Moynihan | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Carlos Pimentel | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Risel Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Benjamin Bello | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Derek Almeida | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 55 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Tyrane Isaac | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Todd Hansen | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Raymond Abreu | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Steve Lafortune | Detective | Black male | Black male, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Alexis Dejesus | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Daniel Beddows | Detective | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jaysen Basnight | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Gregory Zakoscielny | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Rudy Anzalone | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Thomas Gagliardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Novaidul Neon | Sergeant | Asian male | White male, 72 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Andrew Duguid | Detective | White male | Hispanic female, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Anthony Lafemina | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Jonathan Taveras | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Ahsan Zafar | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Christophe Muller | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Yevgeniy Zaytsev | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Ronald Bolte | Lieutenant | White male | Unknown male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jason Deonarinesingh | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jason Deonarinesingh | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Matthew Vorraro | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Alban Kalaj | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Brian Mchenry | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Bekim Kalicovic | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Timothy Rizzo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Christophe Cruzado | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Kelvin Peralta | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Erick Flores | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Michael Rivera | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Darrien King | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Brian Coffey | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Luke Denesopolis | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Brian Coffey | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Stephen Faber | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Eric Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Ronald Luparello | Detective | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Dervent Williams | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
William Reddin | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Matthew Lewis | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Brian Volpi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Anthony Wright | Detective | Black male | Unknown male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Louis Marinacci | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Stephen Loschiavo | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
David Leonardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Diery Louis | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Oscar Wdowiak | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 37 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2014 |
Anatoli Eltsov | Police Officer | White male | White male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Juan Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Matthew Mozdziak | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
John Zamot | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
James Delumen | Detective | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Joel Crooms | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 67 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Gregory Smith | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Gregory Smith | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 13 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Andre Teterycz | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
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.