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
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2004
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Tyrone Seely	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2016
Claymont Defreitas	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Christophe Denny	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2009
Dewan Campbell	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2015
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2009
Noel Alphonso	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jason Deonarinesingh	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Charles Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jeffrey Gaston	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2002
Jason Deonarinesingh	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Markell Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ralph Remy	Police Officer	Black male	Not available male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2010
Ralph Remy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2010
Richard Tarver	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2015
Richard Tarver	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2015
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2003
Christophe Denny	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	1999
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Terrance Smalls	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Charles Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2010
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Ted Saintgerard	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
Ted Saintgerard	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jermaine Scott	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2018
Kenneth Douglas	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ted Saintgerard	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2003
Lanier Glenn	Lieutenant	Black male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Erlene Wiltshire	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Christophe Chin	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2016
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	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
Lanier Glenn	Lieutenant	Black male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Kurt Jones	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
Isaac Branch	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Kevon Sample	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female	Exonerated	2009
Duane Percy	Detective	Black male	Black female, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	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
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2013
Tristan Parker	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Tricia Grant	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2014
Omar Birchwood	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2013
Andre Blake	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Andre Blake	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Darnay Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Exonerated	2002
Darnay Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Gregory Kennedy	Detective	Black male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Gregory Kennedy	Detective	Black male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Darnell Forrester	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Thomas Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Thomas Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Dikensy Moussignac	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Katrina Forrester	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Essence Jackson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Clifford Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2003
Richard Gadson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2009
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
Kevon Sample	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jamaal Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Marlon Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2018
James Whitlock	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2005
Jonauld Guest	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jason Reynolds	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Aneesah Mitchell	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Marlon Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
James Whitlock	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Makiba Brathwaitezimmerma	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 56 years old	Exonerated	2016
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Charles Powell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2007
Willie Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2002
Willie Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2002
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Anthony Moon	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jeffrey Brown	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2018
Stacey Robinson	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Garry Lamour	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Garry Lamour	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Joel Edwards	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
James Whitlock	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2008
Charles Stewart	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2005
Antwon Trent	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2009
Sekou Bourne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2002
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ahmad Shaheed	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2014
Sophia Rodriguez	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christophe Eastmond	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009

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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.