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
Luis Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female	Exonerated	2006
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Peter Guido	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2006
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Wilson Verdesoto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kevin Nolan	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Nerys Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Angelo Cuozzo	Detective	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Angelo Cuozzo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Flavio Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2006
Robert Barnett	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2006
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
John Facchini	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2006
James Famiano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Shane Killilea	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
John Facchini	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2006
Keith Cheng	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
James Mahoney	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female	Exonerated	2006
Kevin Colvin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2006
Cornelius Oshea	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Robert Mcginn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2006
Robert Reed	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Dazi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Milton Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
Curtis Crystal	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Philip Rivera	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2006
Mark Vazquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2006
Angela Polancobrito	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Moccaldi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Chanae Martin	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jorge Ulloa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Eric Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
David Cuce	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2006
Christophe Mcnerney	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2006
Patrick Cortright	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2006
Frank Galia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Nicholas Horun	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jason Reynolds	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Joseph Ross	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2006
Robert Locher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2007
Roberto Suarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Steven Ramunno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Julio Lasalle	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
John Ferrara	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2007
Siu Lam	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Carlos Vazquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2007
Frank Lupo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2007
Marco Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2007
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jasmin Nikocevic	Police Officer	White male	White male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2007
Patrick Donnelly	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Yael Magori	Police Officer	White female	Asian male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Mirjan Lolja	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2007
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Adan Munoz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Francisco Pina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2007
Francisco Pina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Rob Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Patrick Venetek	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 87 years old	Exonerated	2007
Rob Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2007
Blas Colon	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Andre Arias	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Anthony Leitao	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Steven Cohn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Elvis Alcivar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2007
Elvis Alcivar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jeremy Demarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2007
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jay Wolsky	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2007
Matthew Wright	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Glynn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Glynn	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Marcos Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Edward Reardon	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Catherine Kunst	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joe Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2007
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Trevor Baronette	Detective	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
John Chavatte	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Paul Brauer	Police Officer	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jerry Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Daniel Baca	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Daniel Baca	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Robert Krohley	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2007
Charles Zwilling	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Robert Krohley	Sergeant	White male	White male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Hairo Franco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Ching Nieh	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2007

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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.