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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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

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
98
Complaints
111
Allegations
134

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 Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 1986
Paul Capotosto Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1986
John Moynihan Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1987
Gary Messina Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1987
Stephen Derrico Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1988
Stephen Derrico Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1988
Stephen Derrico Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1988
Stephen Derrico Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1988
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1989
John Dorst Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1989
Howard Shank Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1990
Paul Digiacomo Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1990
Paul Inzirillo Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1991
Christophe Lawrence Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1991
Paul Inzirillo Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1991
Joseph Delre Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1992
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1992
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1992
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1992
James Darcy Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1992
Joseph Tallarine Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1992
John Moynihan Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1992
Aubrey Henry Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1992
Thomas Cerbone Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1992
Robert Delaney Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1993
James Fogarty Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1993
Bryan Mcnulty Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1993
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 1993
Lawrence Bettex Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1993
Charles Barberi Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1994
John Hart Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1994
Harold Kirschner Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1994
Jeffrey Maddrey Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Jeffrey Maddrey Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Jeffrey Maddrey Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Jeffrey Maddrey Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Paul Deentremont Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Aubrey Henry Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1994
Anthony Contessa Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1994
Nelson Figueroa Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Richard Thompson Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Freddy Dominguez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1994
Charles Barberi Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Alberto Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Charles Barberi Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Steven Green Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Keith King Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1995
Douglas Chavis Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1995
Douglas Chavis Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1995
Douglas Chavis Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1995
Douglas Chavis Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1995
William Sciara Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Franklin Bohr Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 1995
Bryan Mcnulty Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Keith Bryan Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1995
Carl Roadarmel Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1995
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Francis Latimer Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1995
Thomas White Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1995
Louis Dellipizzi Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Nicholas Ferraro Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Michael Gibbs Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Thomas Gergley Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Justin Lenz Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1995
Sean Finn Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Curtis Crystal Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1995
Peter Sala Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1995
Richard Coccodrilli Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Richard Coccodrilli Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Instructions) 1995
Paul Deentremont Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Paul Deentremont Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Paul Deentremont Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Paul Deentremont Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Steven Cohan Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1996
Paul Pizzuta Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Scott Purcell Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Alfred Moberg Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1996
Joseph Matthew Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Douglas Lansing Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Miltiadis Marmara Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1996
Patricia Macdonald Police Officer White female Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Kris Kalmanowicz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 1996
Darrell Nathan Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1996
Edward Colucci Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
John Taverna Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Matthew Lamendola Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Roger Savage Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Darrell Nathan Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Bruce Solomon Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Richard Brea Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Larry Burnham Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
Paul Deentremont Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Paul Deentremont Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Paul Deentremont Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Paul Deentremont Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Felix Garcia Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1997
Jose Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1997
William Maye Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1997
Dustin Genco Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1997
Gary Calhoun Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1997
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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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