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
Yevgeniy Zaytsev	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2011
Yevgeniy Zaytsev	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jason Zeikel	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Refused female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2017
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2013
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2013
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2011
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 75 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2011
Vitaliy Zelikov	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2011
Tongzhong Zhang	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Karen Zhao	Police Officer	Asian female	White female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Jeffrey Ziman	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Zachery Zinaman	Police Officer	White male	White female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2019
Zachery Zinaman	Police Officer	White male	White female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2019
Zachery Zinaman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Matthew Zito	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2010
Daniel Zollo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2009
Daniel Zollo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Robert Zontini	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2011
Robert Zontini	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
John Zorrilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
Neil Zuber	Captain	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Neil Zuber	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2010
Neil Zuber	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
Neil Zuber	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Neil Zuber	Captain	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2019
Neil Zuber	Captain	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Bryan Zuccaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Bryan Zuccaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Exonerated	2006
Bryan Zuccaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Bryan Zuccaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2010
Bryan Zuccaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
Bryan Zuccaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2005
Bryan Zuccaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Washington Zurita	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2002
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Charles Zwilling	Police Officer	White male	White male	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Charles Zwilling	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 41 years old	Exonerated	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.