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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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Carlos Lozada | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Jared Rothschild | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Alejandro Valderrama | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Jonathan Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 59 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Andrew Hatki | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
James Hickman | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2016 |
Thomas Manning | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Fernando Guimaraes | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Sean Mcdonnell | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Julio Micheli | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Michael Muskin | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Paul Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
James Seder | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Bilal Ates | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Essence Jackson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Jamaal Miller | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Jamaal Miller | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
John Lindsey | Detective | Black male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Mack Lipinski | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2009 |
Jose Peinan | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
William Rojas | Detective | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Jared Tepperman | Detective | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Robert Kelly | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Anis Nikocevic | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Ryan Puglisi | Detective | White male | Black male, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Pablo Taveras | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Lawrence Fiorello | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Ronald Luparello | Detective | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Kaisser Surriga | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Edwin Estrada | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Matthew Lewis | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Matthew Lewis | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Erik Nelson | Detective | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Brian Volpi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Jack Dagnese | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Mathew Reich | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Trevor Baronette | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Trevor Baronette | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Trevor Baronette | Police Officer | Black male | Black male | Exonerated | 2007 |
Trevor Baronette | Detective | Black male | Black male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Trevor Baronette | Sergeant | Black male | Black female, 64 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Jason Cira | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Jason Cira | Detective | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Kaz Daughtry | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Michael Sidorskiy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Frank Palumbo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2001 |
Harvin Hart | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Carlos Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Robert Pearo | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Matthew Wright | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Tyler Ehrlein | Sergeant | White male | Asian male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Matthew Wright | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Pedro Bobe | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Davinder Singh | Police Officer | Asian male | American Indian male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Michael Romeo | Police Officer | White male | American Indian male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Claudio Ramirez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available , 7 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Joseph Tallarine | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1991 |
Louis Dellipizzi | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1995 |
Thomas Cerbone | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1997 |
Jay Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2008 |
Ernest Morales | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Benjamin Gottlieb | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2002 |
Benjamin Gottlieb | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2003 |
Mike Civil | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Dawud Danielbey | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1998 |
Joseph Delre | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1993 |
Thomas Dunsing | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1996 |
Richard Warner | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1996 |
Josh Ulan | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1998 |
Michael Reddington | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1995 |
Elliot Colon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 1996 |
Joseph Tallarine | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1991 |
Kevin Gallagher | Lieutenant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Scott Purcell | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1996 |
Raymond Festino | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2002 |
Jerry Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Peter Rhatigan | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1996 |
James Mcgarry | Sergeant | White male | Not available male | Exonerated | 2008 |
Richard Bergin | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1989 |
Cesar Polanco | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Bruce Solomon | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 1997 |
Vincent Maher | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1997 |
Timothy Mccormack | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1990 |
Steven Cohn | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1996 |
Felix Garcia | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1997 |
Gary Calhoun | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 1997 |
Shkelzen Ahmetaj | Detective | White male | Not available male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
William Taylor | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1996 |
Erlene Wiltshire | Police Officer | Black female | Not available | Exonerated | 1994 |
Steven Berger | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1990 |
Justin Lenz | Sergeant | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1995 |
Jalin Bulding | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1992 |
Jalin Bulding | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (No Recommendations) | 1994 |
Paul Perricone | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1990 |
Carmine Caruso | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1996 |
Erik Scantlebury | Detective | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 1996 |
Matthew Zito | Detective | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2010 |
Niles Prince | Police Officer | Black male | Not available | Exonerated | 2006 |
Paul Perricone | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 1990 |
Risel Martinez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
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.