Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

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
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.
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