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
Robert Winslow	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Chad Manzi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 17 years old	Exonerated	2004
Alexander Grandstaff	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2004
Yasmin Hicks	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Brian Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Patrick Fitzgerald	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Ralph Pacheco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Anthony Lustica	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Salvatore Lopiccolo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2004
Fabio Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2004
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
Andre Teterycz	Sergeant	White male	White female, 64 years old	Exonerated	2004
Ronald Bolte	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female	Exonerated	2004
Brian Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Richard Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2004
John Andryuk	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2004
William Sommer	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Jacob Newman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2004
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Hector Lopez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Matzinger	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2004
Norman Grandstaff	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2004
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Christophe Owen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Vento	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2004
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2004
Jose Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2004
Anthony Demonte	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2004
Kevin Devine	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Lennihan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2004
Luis Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Ignazio Selvaggio	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
James Dengate	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2004
Erica Lloyd	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2004
James Dengate	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
James Dengate	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
Ohmeed Davodian	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2004
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2004
Yuseff Hamm	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2004
Douglas Lansing	Detective	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2004
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Lennihan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2004
Edward Deighan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2004
Alfred Moberg	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2004
Steven Mattioli	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Lennihan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
David Pulice	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Ross	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Richard Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Hickey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Alexander Wancel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Daniel Castronova	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Flavio Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Nicholas Garafola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Mark Landi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Brian Fragliossi	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2005
Timothy Brown	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2005
Katia Jasmin	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 11 years old	Exonerated	2005
Alexander Wancel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2005
William Taylor	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2005
Emile Pratt	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Andrew Erato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2005
Anis Nikocevic	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Charles Stewart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2005
Juan Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2005
Alexis Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
Carlos Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jose Delrosario	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jose Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Michael Licitra	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2005
Thomas Passolo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 15 years old	Exonerated	2005
John Hourican	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Justin Farren	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jesus Capo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2005
Freddy Dominguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Ramu Hiller	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male	Exonerated	2005
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Richard Vetrano	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Jalin Bulding	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Silvio Schettini	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Nicole Gondry	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Trifon Anagnostos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2005
Thomas Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Thomas Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Antonio Santana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kieran Fox	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2005
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Weber	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Exonerated	2005
Diego Dotres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2005
John Roberts	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005

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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.