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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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: Physical 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
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
Christian Addison Sergeant White male Black male, 65 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Antwon Trent Police Officer Black male Unknown male Unsubstantiated 2009
Vincenzo Dimartino Police Officer White male Black male, 62 years old Exonerated 2009
Christian Addison Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Demonda Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2009
William Tergesen Police Officer White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Scott Longmaid Police Officer White male Black male, 56 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael White Sergeant Black male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 19 years old Exonerated 2009
Alfredo Brewster Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Ricardo Moreno Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
Frank Lupo Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Luis Claudio Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 43 years old Exonerated 2009
Luis Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2009
Luis Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 17 years old Exonerated 2009
Kyle Stanley Police Officer White male Unknown male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Kyle Stanley Police Officer White male Black male, 65 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Gabriel Baaith Police Officer Black male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2009
Andrew Lipari Police Officer White male Refused female, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Edward Colucci Detective White male White male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Daniel Beddows Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Randolph Price Police Officer Black male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2009
David Creely Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2009
Maria Bocachica Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic female, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Ramu Hiller Detective Asian male Hispanic female, 26 years old Exonerated 2009
Rafael Perdomo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Alfred Gallicchio Sergeant White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2009
Brian Stanley Police Officer White male Black male, 49 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Chad Mack Police Officer Black male Unknown male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Eric Duval Police Officer White male White male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Keith Weber Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Anis Nikocevic Police Officer White male Black male, 14 years old Exonerated 2009
Merlyn Bermudez Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 14 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Darren Melhado Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 18 years old Exonerated 2009
Tyler Ruthizer Police Officer White male Asian male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Burt Antoine Police Officer Black male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
John Rajan Sergeant Asian male Not available Exonerated 2009
Philip Picciano Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Adrian Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2009
Francisco Ponce Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 25 years old Exonerated 2009
Waziri Rumala Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Gerasimos Pyramides Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Ernst Police Officer White male White male, 45 years old Exonerated 2009
Jaime Santiago Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Michael Pyzikiewicz Police Officer White male Black male, 46 years old Exonerated 2009
Adrian Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jeffrey Arceo Police Officer Asian male Hispanic female, 17 years old Exonerated 2009
William Seligson Detective White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Kenneth Anderson Detective White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2009
Frank Laquidara Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Frank Galati Detective White male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Michael Cusumano Police Officer White male White male, 28 years old Exonerated 2009
Troy Peacock Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2009
Robert Morris Police Officer White male Unknown male, 41 years old Exonerated 2009
James Miles Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 44 years old Exonerated 2009
Mark Gaiardelli Police Officer White male Black female, 37 years old Exonerated 2009
Dennis Friendly Detective Black male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2009
Shane Killilea Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 33 years old Exonerated 2009
Miguel Sanchez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Bryan Cullen Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 39 years old Exonerated 2009
Christophe Esposito Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Levon Holley Sergeant Black male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2009
Jason Tejada Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 18 years old Exonerated 2009
Richard Vetrano Sergeant White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2009
Bryan Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jeffrey Arceo Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Darren Caranella Police Officer White male Black female, 15 years old Exonerated 2009
Victor Reyes Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Donald Lee Police Officer Asian male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2009
Brian Holshek Police Officer White male Unknown male Exonerated 2009
Jens Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2009
Trent Narra Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2009
Frank Sarrica Detective Hispanic male Black male, 45 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Duane Atkinson Police Officer Black male Black female, 24 years old Exonerated 2009
Thomas Fabrizi Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Thornton Booker Police Officer Black male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2009
Matthew Granahan Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2009
Mark Oconnell Detective White male Other Race male, 22 years old Exonerated 2009
Julio Hernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Szczecinski Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Amit Dua Police Officer Asian male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Fabio Nunez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 30 years old Exonerated 2009
Christophe Kearney Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2009
Raghunan Ramroop Police Officer Asian male Refused female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Barbara Fischer Sergeant White female Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Derek Epstein Police Officer White male White male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Paul Mcmahon Lieutenant White male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Thomas Diggs Police Officer Black male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Frederick Drone Police Officer White male White male, 29 years old Exonerated 2009
Maryann Lodico Police Officer White female Asian male, 46 years old Exonerated 2009
Anthony Gulotta Sergeant White male Black male, 46 years old Exonerated 2009
Douglas Schack Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 63 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Gaspar Sciacca Detective White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Quran Mcphatter Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 25 years old Exonerated 2009
Frank Desiderato Police Officer White male White male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Anthony Proscia Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2009
Jose Vasquezmiranda Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown female, 43 years old Exonerated 2009
Quran Mcphatter Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Anthony Proscia Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2009
Thomas Gagliardi Sergeant White male Black female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
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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