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
Dalsh Veve	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 54 years old	Exonerated	2015
Tracey Duncan	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kaz Daughtry	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Eastmond	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Scott Henderson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Rob Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
Oghenevigh Okrokoto	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Exonerated	2004
Joseph Matthew	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	1999
Clinton Green	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Kevin Royall	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Gerard Walker	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2013
Davon Alston	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2017
Darrin Smalls	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Moore	Lieutenant	Black male	White female, 70 years old	Exonerated	2019
Christophe Jones	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Darnell Forrester	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Oghenevigh Okrokoto	Detective	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Adrian Ashby	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2001
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Black male	Other Race female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2013
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
Marlon Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2018
Daryl Melhado	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Marlon Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Gerald Stlouis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Dustin Edwards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Dustin Edwards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Avis Washington	Sergeant	Black female	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Daryl Melhado	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Yasmin Hicks	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Aluthea Caviness	Lieutenant	Black male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Richard Gadson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2009
Devon Hudson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Audrey Wise	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Vallery Alexis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Vallery Alexis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Kenneth Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Devon Hudson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Terrell Anderson	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2009
Spencer Garrett	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Patrick Jean	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2008
Colin Caesar	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Colin Caesar	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Stanley Green	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2004
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Bruce Solomon	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2011
Kevon Sample	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Patrick Jean	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2011
Daryl Melhado	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Not available female	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2003
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2004
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Not available male	Exonerated	2004
Calvin Searcy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Windsor	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Exonerated	2000
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2011
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2015
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Ahmad Brannon	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2019
Brian Capers	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Windsor	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, -1 years old	Exonerated	1999
Willus Murray	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Calvin Searcy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Brian Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Sophia Rodriguez	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2017
Rafael Rispoli	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2017
Calvin Searcy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Marika Williams	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2018
Joe Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2007
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Nico Hewitt	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2002
Kevon Sample	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female	Exonerated	2009
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2004
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
Darrien King	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Exonerated	2017
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
Russell Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Allen Moore	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2015
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2007
Allen Moore	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Arland Belande	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Lamont Kirkland	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2019
Paul Mccarthy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2014
Kevon Sample	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daryl Melhado	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2014

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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.