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
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Cecilio Ramos	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2011
Vincent Maher	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2011
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2011
Maurice Harrington	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Samuels	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Sean Downes	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2011
William Glynn	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2011
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jarrett Dill	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2011
William Glynn	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Romaine Wilson	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Elvin Gashi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Timothy Cecchini	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2012
Kenneth Rosello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2012
Ruben Serrano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Exonerated	2012
David Paray	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kevin Morgan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Tatiana Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Tatiana Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Edward Carrasco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Philip Vaccarino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2012
Philip Vaccarino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Philip Vaccarino	Police Officer	White male	White male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Dion Edwards	Detective	Black male	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Mahoney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2012
Alberto Pizarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Juan Moreno	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2012
Daniel Gukelberger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Not available female	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christian Cataldo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2012
Dany Fana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jose Peinan	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Odalis Perez	Detective	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2012
William Schumacher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
James Burpoe	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2012
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2012
Edwin Estrada	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2012
Nicholas Bekas	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2012
Alexander Wancel	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2012
Daniel Callinan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
William Tergesen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2012
Anthony Adamo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2012
Anis Nikocevic	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2012
Matthew Borden	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jeffrey Adaszewski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2012
Johnpaul Slater	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2012
Christophe Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jacob Giannelli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Livingston	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2012
Charles Senat	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jimmy Clerge	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
David Pulice	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Patrick Volgende	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2012
Joseph Cruzado	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Craig Victorino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2012
Michael Cintron	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Patrick Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jacob Newman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 13 years old	Exonerated	2012
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2012
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
Edward Caceres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Edward Caceres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 15 years old	Exonerated	2012
Scott Berger	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Christophe Beihl	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Timothy Rogers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Kathryn Barry	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Haigh	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Carlos Lozada	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Erica Macauda	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jacob Newman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2012
Anibal Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2012
Robert Hawreluk	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Charlie Little	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
Devin Long	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Charles Gove	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Bruce Ceparano	Sergeant	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2012
Patrick Horkan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Eric Ortega	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2012
Daniel Young	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Nicholas Canepa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2012
Miguel Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2012
James Miles	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Demonda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Richard Aseng	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2012
Richard Aseng	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Scott Samarisi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Konrad Zakiewicz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Frank Muirhead	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2012

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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.