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
Mark Holder	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Clifton Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2002
Derrick Mcintosh	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Shawn Wilkinson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Gerard Walker	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2013
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Hispanic female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Stacey Ellis	Police Officer	Black female	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Garry Lamour	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Larry Dunn	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Kwame Kipp	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
Thomas Diggs	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Cousinhayes	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Rodney Harrison	Chiefs and other ranks	Black male	Refused male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Melvin Moultrie	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Richard Dixon	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Dustin Edwards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Richard Gadson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2009
Lennoxann Samerson	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Willie Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2002
Eric Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
Terrell Anderson	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2009
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
Aubrey Henry	Detective	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Aubrey Henry	Detective	Black male	Unknown male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Patrick Jean	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2011
Willie Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2002
Willie Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2002
Yves Dorisme	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 12 years old	Exonerated	2013
David Small	Detective	Black male	Black female, 53 years old	Exonerated	2009
Cedric Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2001
Ahmad Brannon	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2019
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Giovany Diegue	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2006
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006
Marcel Francis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nico Hewitt	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2002
Nico Hewitt	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Terrence Howard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Titus Parham	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mike Civil	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Aubrey Henry	Detective	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2003
Mike Civil	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Leon Mcguire	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2003
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2012
Tonica Corlette	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Andre Morris	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2019
William Pierce	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Not available male	Exonerated	2004
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2019
Aubrey Henry	Detective	Black male	Black female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Raheen Rivers	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Lorenzo Jones	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 61 years old	Exonerated	2008
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Claude Jeanpierre	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Lowez Walker	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Daphney Pamphile	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Justin Allen	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2014
Justin Allen	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2014
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2008
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Saquoi Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2017
Edson Brutus	Police Officer	Black male	Asian female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2017
Arland Belande	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
Byran Pitts	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2008
Allen Moore	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	White female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2007
Lamont Kirkland	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2019
Bobby Glover	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2012
Floretta Chow	Police Officer	Black female	White female, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joe Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2007
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Darion Francis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2018
Kenneth Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Devon Hudson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Fitzroy Vigilance	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	1999
Fitzroy Vigilance	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Fitzroy Vigilance	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2000
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2010
Anthony Moon	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Leonard Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jermaine Scott	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jeremiah Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 64 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006

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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.