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
Frank Sarrica	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jason Greenberg	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Robert Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2007
Robert Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2007
Steven Cohn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Alberto Pizarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Robert Romano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2007
William Taylor	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2007
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Douglas Schack	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Taylor	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Adriano Deleon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jay Wolsky	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2007
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joseph Curley	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Alexander Wancel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Alexander Wancel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Julio Lasalle	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jose Caban	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jose Caban	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2007
William Larkin	Police Officer	White male	White male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jeffrey Ziman	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Steven Weiss	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Steven Weiss	Sergeant	White male	Refused female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jose Caban	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Raso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Valva	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2007
Richard Pignatelli	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Todd Craven	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Lipetri	Captain	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Patrick Donnelly	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Cassandra Matthews	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joey Quigley	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2007
William Higgins	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2007
Richard Gibson	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Lorenzo Jones	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Brian Fleming	Detective	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Andre Arias	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Winiarz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jolene Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Brett Strauss	Police Officer	White male	White male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2007
Patrick Cain	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Dambrogio	Police Officer	White male	White male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2007
Angel Delgado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Adan Munoz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Angel Delgado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2007
Darren King	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Richard Reilly	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joseph Matzinger	Sergeant	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2007
Humberto Mantuano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kenneth Dwyer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Patrick Venetek	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 87 years old	Exonerated	2007
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2007
Markell Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2007
Vito Nicoletta	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Catherine Kunst	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Jones	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Leonard Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Michael Granshaw	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Eric Downes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2007
Felix Concepcion	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2007
Vito Nicoletta	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2007
Shaun Grossweiler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Shaun Grossweiler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2007
Eric Downes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2007
Karyn Mccormack	Detective	White female	White male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Derek Barreto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Waylon Fradera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown female, 67 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2007
Mark Vazquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
John Chavatte	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Kenneth Vencak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2007
Dustin Edwards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Francisco Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Richard Vetrano	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2007
Marcos Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Nicholas Horun	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Nicholas Horun	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Ward	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2007
Davey Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male	Exonerated	2007
Natalie Roman	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kristian Flood	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	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.