Force: PHYSICAL FORCE - The NYPD Files

Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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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
John Hansen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2014
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2014
Thomas Ramirez	Detective	Hispanic male	White female, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Herman Lai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robertito Navarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Gustavo Ochoa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Tyrane Isaac	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Jose Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Justin Beiger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Brian Mccarthy	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
William Tergesen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Blasetti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kimm Cruse	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Max Rolffot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Max Rolffot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jimmy Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Fragliossi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Staple	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2014
Daniel Staple	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Brown	Lieutenant	White male	Asian female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ryan Conroy	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Carlos Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Deshawn Edmonds	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Derrick Kreckmann	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2014
Derrick Barnes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2014
Terrence Howard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Marcel Francis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Edwin Peguero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Michael Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Matthew Mauro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Johnanthon Alexander	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2014
Johnpaul Vinculado	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Joseph Weldon	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Frank Altieri	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Jonathan Glazer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jonathan Glazer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Juan Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nelson Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nelson Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Nelson Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Christophe Mcdonald	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Not available female	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Jeremy Veit	Detective	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jacob Aaronson	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Ashford	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Bartley	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Wilson Alba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Wilson Alba	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Ruben Serrano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Giamboi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Gary Leite	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christian Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Efrain Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Heriberto Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Dino Tamayo	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Victor Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Victor Robalino	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
John Albertelli	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Paul Mccarthy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2014
Malik Mccloud	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2014
Greg Desideri	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Brian Dobbins	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2014
James Donovan	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michael Whooley	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Robert Graves	Detective	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2014
Robert Graves	Detective	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jeffrey Griffin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2014
Ronald Hobson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Danny Aguilar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2014
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2014
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2014
Brendan Reilly	Police Officer	White male	White female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2014
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Tiernan	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joseph Gartner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joseph Gartner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2014
Steve Higgins	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ray Dutton	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Joseph Tompkins	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Salvatore Lopiccolo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Jorge Sanabria	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Anderson Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2014
Anderson Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Scott Hughes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Emilio Ortega	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
David Paray	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jose Vasquezmiranda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Scott Berger	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Felix Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2014

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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.