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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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Joseph Brunetti Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 18 years old Exonerated 2001
Joseph Brunetti Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2002
Joseph Brunetti Police Officer White male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Kevin Brunner Lieutenant White male Black female, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jason Brunson Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jason Brunson Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2009
Jason Brunson Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2009
Jason Brunson Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Dmitry Brush Sergeant White male White female, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Dmitry Brush Sergeant White male Black female, 46 years old Exonerated 2013
Dmitry Brush Sergeant White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Dmitry Brush Sergeant White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2013
Edson Brutus Police Officer Black male Asian female, 25 years old Exonerated 2017
William Buchanan Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2002
William Buchanan Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Exonerated 2003
Andrew Buck Police Officer White male Unknown male, 25 years old Exonerated 2011
Kirth Buckley Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 46 years old Exonerated 2013
Kirth Buckley Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Kirth Buckley Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 75 years old Exonerated 2015
Kirth Buckley Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 75 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Fermin Bueno Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Fermin Bueno Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2016
Mario Bueno Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Charles Buglione Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Charles Buglione Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Charles Buglione Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Jalin Bulding Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Jalin Bulding Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2001
Frank Bulzoni Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2019
Frank Bulzoni Police Officer White male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2008
Frank Bulzoni Police Officer White male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2006
Frank Bulzoni Police Officer White male Black female, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Matthew Buonaspina Police Officer White male Black male, 44 years old Exonerated 2008
Michael Burbridge Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 52 years old Exonerated 2007
Anthony Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Juan Burgos Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 69 years old Exonerated 2019
Juan Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2008
Juan Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 23 years old Exonerated 2005
Andrew Burgos Police Officer White male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2013
Dennis Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 45 years old Exonerated 2018
Anthony Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 14 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Dennis Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 45 years old Exonerated 2018
Anthony Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown female, 21 years old Exonerated 2004
Patrick Burnett Police Officer White male Black female, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Larry Burnham Lieutenant White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Frank Burns Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Frank Burns Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Gregory Burns Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Exonerated 2006
James Burpoe Police Officer White male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2012
William Butler Police Officer White male Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Butler Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Butler Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Gregory Butler Sergeant White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2000
Gregory Butler Sergeant White male Black female, 50 years old Exonerated 2000
Brian Byrnes Sergeant White male Asian female, 46 years old Exonerated 2016
Rodrigo Caballero Detective Hispanic male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Justin Caballero Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Justin Caballero Police Officer White male Black female, 51 years old Exonerated 2018
Justin Caballero Police Officer White male Black female, 28 years old Exonerated 2007
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2008
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Jose Caban Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2017
Jose Caban Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2003
Jose Caban Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2011
John Caban Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2000
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 18 years old Exonerated 2007
Jose Caban Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Jose Caban Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Luis Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2002
Juan Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Exonerated 2016
Luis Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic male Black female Exonerated 2006
Samantha Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 64 years old Exonerated 2008
Patrick Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Patrick Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Gerson Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2012
Juan Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Patrick Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Andrew Cacciatore Police Officer Asian male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Edward Caceres Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 15 years old Exonerated 2012
Edward Caceres Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Fernando Caches Police Officer White male Asian male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Fernando Caches Police Officer White male Asian male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Colin Caesar Police Officer Black male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2005
Colin Caesar Police Officer Black male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Colin Caesar Police Officer Black male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2005
Colin Caesar Police Officer Black male Unknown female, 52 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Matthew Cahill Police Officer White male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Matthew Cahill Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Matthew Cahill Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2013
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Patrick Cain Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 24 years old Exonerated 2013
Frank Calafiore Police Officer White male Asian male, 36 years old Exonerated 2012
Frank Calafiore Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Edgard Calderon Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 52 years old Exonerated 2006
Vincent Calderone Sergeant White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Vincent Calderone Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 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.
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