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
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Daniel Ticali	Detective	American Indian male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Daniel Ticali	Police Officer	American Indian male	Other Race male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Siu Lam	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Edwin Lau	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Rhea Tiwary	Police Officer	Asian female	White male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2011
Joe Chen	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2006
Harjit Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available male	Exonerated	2006
Shibu Madhu	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2011
Lawrence Wang	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2014
Ramu Hiller	Detective	Asian male	Unknown male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2016
Edwin Lau	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Wenming Wu	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2018
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Tongzhong Zhang	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Herawattie Jeeuth	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Amit Dua	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
James Lee	Lieutenant	Asian male	White female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Raymond Kwong	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Yoosup Shim	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2011
Eric Pena	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006
Shibu Madhu	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Shibu Madhu	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Shibu Madhu	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Ramu Hiller	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2005
Ramu Hiller	Detective	Asian male	Hispanic female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
Ralph Clement	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black female, 74 years old	Exonerated	2016
Edwin Lau	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Andrew Nguyen	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2019
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Andrew Nguyen	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Iftekharul Awal	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
David Paray	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Soney Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Simon Rashid	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2010
Amit Dua	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Amit Dua	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jaspreet Gill	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
James Lee	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2013
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Not available	Exonerated	2009
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Yoosup Shim	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Daniel Oh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
Asad Anwar	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Shibu Madhu	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2009
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Deodat Urprasad	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Shibu Madhu	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2011
Shibu Madhu	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Shibu Madhu	Lieutenant	Asian male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Donald Climaco	Police Officer	Asian male	Other Race male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ramu Hiller	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Ramu Hiller	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male	Exonerated	2005
Ramu Hiller	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ramu Hiller	Detective	Asian male	Unknown male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Dhanan Saminath	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2013
Anil Jacob	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Edwin Lau	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2018
Zul Chowdhury	Police Officer	Asian male	Other Race male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Shilendra Sawh	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Zul Chowdhury	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2013
Desmond Mohan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Shilendra Sawh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2003
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2010
Raghunan Ramroop	Police Officer	Asian male	Refused female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Lauren Au	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2012
Mizbah Noor	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 64 years old	Exonerated	2007
Satinderpa Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2019
Tony Ip	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Thomas Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2009
Son Cao	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Peter Ahn	Sergeant	Asian male	Unknown female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Simon Rashid	Detective	Asian male	White male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
Allan Taeza	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jonathan Hom	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2011
Amit Dua	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Junaid Saeed	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2018
Amit Dua	Sergeant	Asian male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Donald Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jaspreet Gill	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Marco Libongco	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Rhea Tiwary	Police Officer	Asian female	White female, 61 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2006
Keith Cheng	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2008
Keith Cheng	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Mohamadyah Patwekar	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Yoosup Shim	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 15 years old	Exonerated	2010
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2006
Daniel Oh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Allan Taeza	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Stephen Lalchan	Detective	Asian male	Asian male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Minh Tran	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Edwin Ching	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2011

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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.