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
John Becerra	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2007
John Becerra	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2004
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Nathaniel Beck	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2019
Nathaniel Beck	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2019
Nathaniel Beck	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2019
Eric Beckel	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2000
Eric Beckel	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Becker	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Christophe Beckett	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2013
Daniel Beddows	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Beddows	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Daniel Beddows	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2008
Keith Beddows	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Justin Beiger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Christophe Beihl	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Beihl	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2013
Christophe Beihl	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2010
Nicholas Bekas	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2012
Genti Bektashaj	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Arland Belande	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
Renninton Belen	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2009
David Belkin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2017
Joseph Bell	Lieutenant	White male	White female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Joseph Bell	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2002
Joseph Bell	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Michael Bellagamba	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Luis Bellapianta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2002
John Bellico	Detective	White male	White male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Pamela Benites	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Wilfredo Benitez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Wilfredo Benitez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mariluz Benitez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	1999
Brian Benvenuto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2018
Brian Benvenuto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Scott Berger	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2011
Scott Berger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Scott Berger	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Scott Berger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Scott Berger	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Richard Bergin	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Richard Bergin	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
James Berk	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2012
Merlyn Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Eric Bernard	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Eric Bernard	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2017
Arsenio Berrios	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Andrew Bershad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Andrew Bershad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Andrew Bershad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2002
Andrew Bershad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Peter Besse	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2017
Marlon Bethel	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Anand Bhoj	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Anand Bhoj	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Anand Bhoj	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joseph Bieniewicz	Police Officer	White male	White male, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joshua Bienvenue	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Craig Bier	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2003
Maxwell Bindman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Maxwell Bindman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Maxwell Bindman	Police Officer	White male	White male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Maxwell Bindman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Maxwell Bindman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2018
James Biondo	Police Officer	White male	White female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Omar Birchwood	Lieutenant	Black male	Hispanic female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2018
Omar Birchwood	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2013
Paul Blair	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2010
Andre Blake	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Andre Blake	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Andre Blake	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Richard Blasetti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Blasetti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2016
David Bleck	Police Officer	White male	White male, 75 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Scott Blennau	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Bletcher	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2012
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 64 years old	Exonerated	2012
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2012
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2011
Alicja Bobrowska	Detective	White female	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Alicja Bobrowska	Detective	White female	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2011
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Maria Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Ricardo Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007

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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.