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 |
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Christophe Derco | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Scott Berger | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Patrick Cain | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Emrah Ates | Detective | White male | Black male, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Lanier Glenn | Lieutenant | Black male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Joseph Fernandez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Francisco Allende | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Emile Provencher | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Sean Pallone | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Daniel Castaldo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Stephen Dimassa | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Nicholas Scalzo | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Andrew Lipari | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Mark Scarlatelli | Detective | White male | Unknown male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Mark Scarlatelli | Detective | White male | White male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Vincent Caprino | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Dhanan Saminath | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Peter Valentin | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Adnan Radoncic | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Adnan Radoncic | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Martin Gimenez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Anthony Cimmino | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Anthony Cimmino | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Joseph Viggiano | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Dennis Friendly | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Dmitry Brush | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Johnny Chalen | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 54 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Erik Nelson | Detective | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
James Conn | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jonvincent Testaccio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Frank Muirhead | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Eliot Arias | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Tyrane Isaac | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Eric Duval | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Omar Birchwood | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Stephen Schoefer | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Darin Lazar | Police Officer | White male | White male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Tyrone Seely | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
James Argila | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Declan Ludington | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 60 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Brian Fragliossi | Police Officer | White male | White female, 61 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Dominic Ruggiero | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Eric Reynolds | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Dennis Jaeger | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Aaron Lohman | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jason Brown | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 53 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Pete Massa | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 53 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Vincent Dima | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
James Doheny | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Piero Lasaponara | Police Officer | White male | Not available male | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Miguel Figueroa | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
James Lee | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic female, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Hugh Herbert | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Edward Stackpole | Police Officer | White male | White male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Joseph Mcevoy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Timothy Rizzo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Timothy Rizzo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Kaisser Surriga | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian male, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Angelo Pizzarro | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
James Frascatore | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Kevin Cox | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Christophe Hassan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 59 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Declan Ludington | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Zul Chowdhury | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic female, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Zul Chowdhury | Police Officer | Asian male | Other Race male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Ernest Hernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jacqueline Estrada | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic female, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Jose Dejesus | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Omar Elsayed | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 15 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jovaniel Cordova | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Joel Ramirez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Robert Castro | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Julio Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Alberto Angilletta | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
David Guevara | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 64 years old | Substantiated (No Recommendations) | 2013 |
Frank Desiderato | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Nicholas Derleth | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Daniel Cross | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Michael Haigh | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Angel Delgado | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Jared Fox | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Ryan Bracconeri | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Kenneth Douglas | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown female, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Ryan Puglisi | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Richard Young | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 13 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Wilfredo Ramos | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | White female, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Kenneth Douglas | Police Officer | Black male | Asian female, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Kenneth Douglas | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Wilfredo Ramos | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | White female, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Richard Young | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Kenneth Douglas | Police Officer | Black male | Asian male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Franklyn Aizaga | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Juan Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 55 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Jason Korpolinski | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Jose Vasquezmiranda | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Randolph Price | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Shibu Madhu | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
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.