Force: PHYSICAL FORCE - The NYPD Files

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

2,239

Complaints

3,790

Allegations

4,849

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
Joseph Scialabba	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Fabio Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2005
James Mahoney	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael Sykora	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Harvin Hart	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Kelly	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Carlos Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2005
Melvin Moultrie	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Thomas Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Luis Robles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Anand Bhoj	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Freddy Dominguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jesus Capo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Oscar Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Exonerated	2005
Thomas Passolo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 15 years old	Exonerated	2005
Luis Robles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2005
Steve Tirado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Patrick Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Not available female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Patrick Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Not available female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Paul Gaglio	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Edmonds	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jeremy Demarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Norman Grandstaff	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jeremy Demarco	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Osvaldo Nunez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Denisha Pierre	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Rob Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
Robert Barnett	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2006
Arturo Muia	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Arturo Muia	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Frank Danzi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Christos Deftereos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2006
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Floretta Chow	Police Officer	Black female	White female, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Lazarou	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kaz Daughtry	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2006
Edward Barry	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Richard Dixon	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Joe Chen	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2006
Nicholas Albano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2006
Shane Killilea	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2006
Cornelius Oshea	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Sean Higgins	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
James Haviland	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ralph Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2006
Theodore Lauterborn	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Andrew Lipari	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Justin Simms	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ralph Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Andrew Lipari	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2006
Frank Galati	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2006
Robert Nugent	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Patrick Cortright	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Scoloveno	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Theodore Lauterborn	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Nicholas Horun	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
James Lyons	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2006
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006
Colin Higgins	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2006
Paul Brauer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kirth Buckley	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Scoloveno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ralph Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Christos Deftereos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Christophe Friscia	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Bradley Field	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2006
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Patrick Cherry	Detective	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Edmund Rumman	Police Officer	White male	White male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Edgard Calderon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2006
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006
Matthew Bourbeau	Police Officer	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Lynda Chervoni	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2006
Eddy Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Matthew Francis	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kevin Casey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jaime Pedraza	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006
Anthony Cimmino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006

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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.