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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Andre Blake Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Kelvin Peralta Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Emile Provencher Sergeant White male Black male, 13 years old Exonerated 2010
Eric Healy Police Officer Black male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Clifton Clarke Detective Black male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2010
Michael Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2010
Daniel Acosta Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 16 years old Exonerated 2010
Patrick Dooley Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2010
Charles Davis Police Officer Black male Black female, 19 years old Exonerated 2010
Robert Castillo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 35 years old Exonerated 2010
Patrick Dooley Police Officer White male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2010
Jon Derise Police Officer White male Black male, 61 years old Exonerated 2010
Carlos Segovia Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 44 years old Exonerated 2010
Daniel Diaz Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 20 years old Exonerated 2010
Henry Lopez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 21 years old Exonerated 2010
Anthony Botta Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2010
Christophe Greiner Detective White male White male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Charles Cavallaro Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2010
Yezenia Wagner Police Officer Hispanic female Other Race female, 41 years old Exonerated 2010
Amit Dua Police Officer Asian male Black female, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Darren King Sergeant Black male White male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Daniel Barreto Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Steve Lafortune Detective Black male Hispanic male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Michael Parks Police Officer Black male Unknown male, 25 years old Exonerated 2011
Max Rolffot Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2011
Sean Mccarren Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Max Rolffot Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Christophe White Police Officer White male White male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Timothy Rizzo Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Thomas Woods Detective White male Hispanic male, 46 years old Exonerated 2011
Winston Willabus Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Max Rolffot Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Andrew Kamna Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jose Santory Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
Scott Sanseverino Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
David Afanador Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jason Santana Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2011
Anthony Armetta Police Officer White male Unknown male, 30 years old Exonerated 2011
Anthony Armetta Police Officer White male Black female, 59 years old Exonerated 2011
Kevin Houst Police Officer White male Black female, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Christophe Sanchez Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2011
Kevin Cox Police Officer Black male White female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jeffrey Griffin Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 46 years old Exonerated 2011
Jose Sandoval Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Ausencio Fernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2011
Alonzo Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2011
Byran Pitts Detective Black male Black male, 61 years old Exonerated 2011
Joshua Faranda Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Exonerated 2011
Qamar Zaman Police Officer Asian male White male, 51 years old Exonerated 2011
Bruce Solomon Police Officer Black male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2011
Christophe Greiner Detective White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Anthony Donato Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2011
Kelvin Puello Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 26 years old Exonerated 2011
Michael Alfieri Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2011
Canisius Xavier Police Officer Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Richard Charles Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Kevin Martin Police Officer White male Other Race male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Timothy Jaycox Sergeant White male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2011
Eliezer Pabon Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 45 years old Exonerated 2011
Kevin Martin Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Timothy Brovakos Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2011
James Armstrong Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2011
Diery Louis Police Officer Black male Unknown male, 24 years old Exonerated 2011
Nicholas Ruiz Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 44 years old Exonerated 2011
Herawattie Jeeuth Police Officer Asian female Hispanic female, 63 years old Exonerated 2011
Daniel Meade Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2011
Robert Orlando Police Officer White male Black male, 59 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Ramon Portillo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 22 years old Exonerated 2011
Michael Edmonds Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 14 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
John Ryan Police Officer White male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Filastin Srour Police Officer White female Black female, 20 years old Exonerated 2011
Tyler Ruthizer Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Tyler Ruthizer Police Officer White male Other Race male, 37 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Jacob Newman Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2011
Jay Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2011
Judith Moreno Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Edwin Ching Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Mirjan Lolja Police Officer White male Black female, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Mirjan Lolja Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
James Titus Police Officer White male Black female, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jerry Wolvers Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Christophe Alvarado Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2011
Aaron Klein Sergeant White male Black female, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Weber Sergeant White male Black female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Marlon Bethel Police Officer Black male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Reinaldo Alvarez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Ricardo Bocachica Detective Hispanic male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2011
Shawn Phillips Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2011
James Delumen Detective White male Black female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
John Diaz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2011
Eduard Nogol Police Officer White male White male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Stephen Espinoza Captain Hispanic male Hispanic male, 45 years old Exonerated 2011
Gerard Delprete Detective White male White male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Edward Guzik Police Officer White male White male, 49 years old Exonerated 2011
Jacobo Garay Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 28 years old Exonerated 2011
Joseph Imperatrice Sergeant White male White male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jaime Santiago Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2011
Leonardo Deoliveira Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2011
Thomas Smith Police Officer White male Other Race male, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Jose Vasquezmiranda Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 46 years old Exonerated 2011
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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