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
Gregory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2017
Sean Mcdonnell	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Melanie Culpepper	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Artur Espenberg	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 15 years old	Exonerated	2017
Joseph Schneider	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2017
Anthony Baresi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Gargano	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
Brian Nelson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Rafael Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Kevin Nicoll	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jose Caban	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Shibu Madhu	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Derrick Mcintosh	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Sean Phillips	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Shibu Madhu	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Shibu Madhu	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Oliver Castillo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2017
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jonathan Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2017
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Sean Phillips	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Abiola Errico	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Brendan Grace	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Vincent Tulipano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
Alexander Wancel	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Todd Jacoby	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2017
Dervent Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Uriel Lames	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2017
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
Robert Falcone	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2017
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jonathan Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2017
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Refused female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2017
John Katehis	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 12 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jose Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
James Campiglia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jonathan Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2018
Vincent Gambino	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2018
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Not available female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Wenming Wu	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2018
Romaine Wilson	Sergeant	Black male	Black female	Exonerated	2018
Joseph King	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Daniel Gerardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Julio Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Arland Belande	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
Paul Brauer	Detective	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Julio Micheli	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Julio Micheli	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Darren Caranella	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Exonerated	2018
Justin Caballero	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Exonerated	2018
Matthew Sabella	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Andre Blake	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Louis Aponte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Louis Aponte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Edward Mcclain	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Omar Birchwood	Lieutenant	Black male	Hispanic female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Robert Miceli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Becerra	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2018
Kevin Kenny	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Stacey Ellis	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jose Ramos	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic transwoman (mtf), 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jason Brown	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Robert Durst	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Robert Durst	Sergeant	White male	Other Race female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2018
Luis Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Luis Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Luis Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown not described	Exonerated	2018
Luis Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown not described	Exonerated	2018
Daniel Guida	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2018
Aubrey Henry	Detective	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Michael Gonzalez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2018
Julio Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2018
Francis Clough	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2018
Hector Justinico	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Hector Justinico	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Francisco Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Maxwell Bindman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2018
Gesner Charles	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Gesner Charles	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2018
Mario Bueno	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Joseph Schneider	Police Officer	White male	White male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jesse Trap	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 16 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Jesse Trap	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
David Bleck	Police Officer	White male	White male, 75 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Renan Darbouze	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2018
Marika Williams	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Sosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2018
Simon Rashid	Detective	Asian male	White male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Melissa Napoli	Detective	White female	White male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018

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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.