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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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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.

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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
Ricardo Bocachica Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Ricardo Bocachica Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2005
Ricardo Bocachica Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Michael Boehm Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Franklin Bohr Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Eric Bolger Police Officer White male Unknown male, 62 years old Exonerated 2005
Thomas Boller Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2010
Ronald Bolte Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Exonerated 2004
Ronald Bolte Sergeant White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Ronald Bolte Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 14 years old Exonerated 2004
Ronald Bolte Police Officer White male Black female, 17 years old Exonerated 2000
Ronald Bolte Sergeant White male Hispanic female Exonerated 2004
Irene Bonicadelgado Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Joseph Bonner Police Officer White male White male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Joseph Bonner Police Officer White male White male, 48 years old Exonerated 2009
George Bonner Detective White male Black male, 14 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Thornton Booker Police Officer Black male Black female, 52 years old Exonerated 2010
Thornton Booker Police Officer Black male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2009
Thornton Booker Police Officer Black male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Thornton Booker Police Officer Black male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2006
Thornton Booker Police Officer Black male Black female, 15 years old Exonerated 2006
Kirk Boone Police Officer Black male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2007
Matthew Borden Police Officer Black male Black male, 51 years old Exonerated 2012
Peter Borisenko Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Peter Borukhov Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2006
Robert Bosland Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Anthony Botta Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2010
Matthew Bottcher Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 15 years old Exonerated 2019
Matthew Bourbeau Police Officer White male White male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Sekou Bourne Detective Black male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2006
Sekou Bourne Detective Black male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2011
Sekou Bourne Police Officer Black male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2002
Sekou Bourne Detective Black male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Sekou Bourne Detective Black male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Sekou Bourne Detective Black male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2007
Sekou Bourne Detective Black male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2014
Sekou Bourne Detective Black male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Laurene Bove Police Officer White female White female, 48 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Bowman Sergeant White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Derrick Boyd Police Officer Black male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2008
Derrick Boyd Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2009
Derrick Boyd Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2009
Elijah Boyle Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Edward Boyle Police Officer White male White female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Ryan Bracconeri Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 50 years old Exonerated 2013
Ryan Bracconeri Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2011
Isaac Branch Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2008
Brian Brannigan Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2005
Brian Brannigan Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2008
Brian Brannigan Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Ahmad Brannon Police Officer Black male Black female, 45 years old Exonerated 2019
Makiba Brathwaitezimmerma Police Officer Black female Black female, 56 years old Exonerated 2016
Paul Brauer Detective White male Hispanic female, 23 years old Exonerated 2018
Paul Brauer Police Officer White male White male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Paul Brauer Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2006
Paul Brauer Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2011
Paul Brauer Detective White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Elizabeth Breen Police Officer White female White male, 35 years old Exonerated 2010
Kevin Breen Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Gerald Breiner Detective White male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2000
Jeannette Brenes Police Officer White female Hispanic male, 32 years old Exonerated 2003
Jeannette Brenes Police Officer White female Black female, 41 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Jeannette Brenes Police Officer White female Hispanic male, 15 years old Exonerated 2001
Robert Brenzel Police Officer White male Unknown male, 20 years old Exonerated 2004
Christophe Breslin Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Exonerated 2000
Alfredo Brewster Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2010
Alfredo Brewster Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 46 years old Exonerated 2015
Alfredo Brewster Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Alfredo Brewster Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jeffrey Brienza Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 23 years old Exonerated 2005
Jeffrey Brienza Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Jeffrey Brienza Lieutenant White male Hispanic female, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Karanlall Brijbukhan Police Officer Asian male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Karanlall Brijbukhan Police Officer Asian male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Karanlall Brijbukhan Detective Asian male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Karanlall Brijbukhan Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Karanlall Brijbukhan Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 31 years old Exonerated 2008
Karanlall Brijbukhan Police Officer Asian male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2006
Karanlall Brijbukhan Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Karanlall Brijbukhan Police Officer Asian male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2008
Timothy Brovakos Lieutenant White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2019
Timothy Brovakos Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2011
Charles Brown Police Officer Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Timothy Brown Police Officer White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2005
Jason Brown Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 53 years old Exonerated 2013
Jeffrey Brown Police Officer Black male White male, 31 years old Exonerated 2018
Timothy Brown Sergeant White male Black female, 21 years old Exonerated 2008
Michael Brown Lieutenant White male Asian female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Timothy Brown Sergeant White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Jason Brown Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Patrick Brown Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Patrick Brown Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Jason Brown Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2017
Jason Brown Police Officer White male Black female, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Patrick Brown Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Richard Browne Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2016
Richard Browne Police Officer White male Black female, 34 years old Exonerated 2015
Richard Browne Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Tiffany Brucewatson Police Officer Black female Black female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Sasha Brugal Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
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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.
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