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
Garry Lamour	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Stacey Ellis	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Isaac Branch	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
Willie Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2002
Willie Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2002
Christophe Denny	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2009
Christophe Denny	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
David Small	Detective	Black male	Black female, 53 years old	Exonerated	2009
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2013
Troy Peacock	Sergeant	Black male	Asian male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2019
Rodney Harrison	Sergeant	Black male	Not available male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Rodney Harrison	Chiefs and other ranks	Black male	Refused male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daphney Pamphile	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Melvin Moultrie	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2017
Donald Alexandre	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
Eric Downes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2007
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2011
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2012
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2012
Duane Percy	Detective	Black male	Black female, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Thornton Booker	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Thornton Booker	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2009
Thornton Booker	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2010
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2003
Fernando Grace	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2004
Fernando Grace	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2004
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Not available male	Exonerated	2004
Charlie Little	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
James Whitlock	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Charles Powell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
James Whitlock	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2008
Stacey Robinson	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Makiba Brathwaitezimmerma	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 56 years old	Exonerated	2016
Miles Holman	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2015
Dana Harge	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Dana Harge	Police Officer	Black male	Asian male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2007
Mike Civil	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Whitlock	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2005
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2007
James Miles	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2009
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Calvin Searcy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Allen Moore	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2015
Calvin Searcy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Charles Stewart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kenneth Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Troy Peacock	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Troy Peacock	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Devon Hudson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Hispanic female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2007
Lorenzo Jones	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
Lowez Walker	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2005
Lowez Walker	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Adrian Ashby	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2001
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Stanley Green	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Not available female	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Charles Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Michael Ingram	Detective	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2001
Charles Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2010
Byran Pitts	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2008
Waziri Rumala	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Tyrone Seely	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2019
Dustin Edwards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Dustin Edwards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Reuben Antwi	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2013
Burt Antoine	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Burt Antoine	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Erica Lloyd	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2004
Shameeka Cummings	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2015
Evans Mazile	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Dustin Edwards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Yasmin Hicks	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Mackenson Nelson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2016
Sophia Rodriguez	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2017
Gesner Charles	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Gesner Charles	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2018
Torrel Rowesingleton	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 60 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Renan Darbouze	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2018
Renan Darbouze	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2019
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Black male	Other Race female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2013
Ricky Smalls	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 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.