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
Richard Danese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Richard Danese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Tongzhong Zhang	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Hart	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Michael Raso	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ignazio Debellis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2015
Michael Raso	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2015
Wilfredo Benitez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 54 years old	Exonerated	2015
Ted Holway	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Sherrod Stuart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Mcdonnell	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Thomas Mcdonnell	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Yahaira Agate	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
James Slavin	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Carlos Pimentel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Kiel Sui	Police Officer	Asian male	Other Race male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2015
Darrin Smalls	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jason Greenberg	Police Officer	White male	White male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2015
Brian Hickey	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Exonerated	2015
Robert Salerno	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2015
Delvis Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 64 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jason Greenberg	Police Officer	White male	White male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Edwin Aguilar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Peter Guido	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jean Francisco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Browne	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jaspreet Gill	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Carlos Marchena	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Patrick Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Barbara Fischer	Lieutenant	White female	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2015
Brian Motyka	Police Officer	White male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jaspreet Gill	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Eric Duval	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Martin Palazzo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Gerasimos Pyramides	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Demetrios Kekatos	Detective	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Tarver	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2015
Richard Tarver	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joby Thomas	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Jolan Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Slavin	Sergeant	White male	White female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2015
Matthew Wright	Detective	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Andrew Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Patrick Quigley	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jean Francisco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Nelson Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2015
Matthew Wright	Detective	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jonathan Hom	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kelly Hughes	Police Officer	White female	Other Race male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Wilfredo Acevedo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Frascatore	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Thomas Napolitano	Detective	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Shane Mathai	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Panik	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Martin Cunningham	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Joseph Sotira	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joseph Foss	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2015
Ruel Stephenson	Inspector	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2015
Derrick Kreckmann	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2015
Derrick Kreckmann	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Julio Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Shawn Wilkinson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Andrew Nguyen	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Christophe Doll	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Shaun Healy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Zanca	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Daniel Kern	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Juan Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2015
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Mccullough	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2015
Liam Ohara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Nico Hewitt	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Bravo Zayas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joshua Bienvenue	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Daniel Kern	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Michael Dicecco	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2015
Brian Mccloskey	Detective	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jorge Monge	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Ricardo Moreno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Brian Shevitz	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Guy Gargano	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2015
William Morris	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Cesar Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2015
Raymond Tomins	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2015
Christophe Alazraki	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Anis Nikocevic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2015

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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.