Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

Force: Physical Force

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
Edward Deighan Sergeant White male Other Race female, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Michael Licitra Lieutenant White male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2005
Robert Dress Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2005
Pedro Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Laurene Bove Police Officer White female White female, 48 years old Exonerated 2005
William Taylor Lieutenant White male Hispanic female, 38 years old Exonerated 2005
Darryl Chen Police Officer Black male Black female, 32 years old Exonerated 2005
Kristian Flood Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2005
Frank Altieri Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 35 years old Exonerated 2005
Darryl Chen Police Officer Black male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2005
Herminio Baez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2005
Anthony Lustica Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Ralph Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Eleodoro Mata Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 20 years old Exonerated 2005
Oscar Fernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available male Exonerated 2005
James Whitlock Police Officer Black male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2005
Bruce Ceparano Police Officer White male Black female, 26 years old Exonerated 2005
Christophe Salamone Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Dion Edwards Police Officer Black male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2005
Joseph Hickey Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Peter Ievolo Sergeant White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Joseph Hickey Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Joseph Hickey Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2005
Norman Grandstaff Sergeant White male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2005
Douglas Carr Police Officer Black male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2005
Nelson Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 37 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Bryan Zuccaro Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Bryan Zuccaro Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2005
Paul Pizzuta Sergeant White male Black male, 48 years old Exonerated 2005
Oscar Fernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Sykora Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2005
Gregory Pekera Sergeant White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Matthew Moschetto Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2005
Jaime Pedraza Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 47 years old Exonerated 2005
Dmitry Durets Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Seiling Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Malcolm Freeman Police Officer Black male Black female, 39 years old Exonerated 2005
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male White female, 43 years old Exonerated 2005
Justin Farren Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Exonerated 2005
Adrian Ashby Sergeant Black male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2005
Abraham Arteaga Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Todd Craven Police Officer White male Black female, 17 years old Exonerated 2005
Antonio Santana Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2005
Ray Dutton Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2005
Herminio Baez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2005
Joseph Lessard Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 16 years old Exonerated 2005
John Andryuk Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2005
Joseph Lessard Police Officer White male White male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Ronald Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2005
Ronald Bolte Sergeant White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Daniel Sarrubbo Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 23 years old Exonerated 2005
Joseph Gartner Police Officer White male Black female, 32 years old Exonerated 2005
Victor Paribello Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2005
Andrew Erato Police Officer White male Black male, 47 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Weber Police Officer White male Black female, 50 years old Exonerated 2005
Katia Jasmin Police Officer Black female Hispanic male, 11 years old Exonerated 2005
Daniel Castronova Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Dustin Genco Detective White male Hispanic male, 53 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Michael Kelly Police Officer White male Unknown female, 22 years old Exonerated 2005
Thomas Wright Police Officer Black male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2005
Joseph Bieniewicz Police Officer White male White male, 63 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Osvaldo Nunez Sergeant Hispanic male Black female, 28 years old Exonerated 2005
Osvaldo Nunez Sergeant Hispanic male Unknown male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Paul Farella Police Officer White male Black female, 55 years old Exonerated 2005
Christophe Lawrence Sergeant White male White male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Ramon Hernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2005
Andrew Valenzano Sergeant White male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2005
Alexander Wancel Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
John Gleason Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Paul Farella Police Officer White male Black female, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Alexander Wancel Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 41 years old Exonerated 2005
John Acconi Police Officer White male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2005
Kevin Gallagher Lieutenant White male Black female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Thomas Wright Police Officer Black male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Brian Davis Police Officer Black male Black female, 26 years old Exonerated 2005
Edward Scali Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Thomas Wright Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 25 years old Exonerated 2005
Lahmar Sanders Police Officer Black male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Guzzino Detective White male White male, 26 years old Exonerated 2005
Teng Luo Police Officer Asian male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Riso Police Officer White male White female, 21 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Riso Police Officer White male White male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Lashonda Dyce Police Officer Black female Black female, 32 years old Exonerated 2005
Peter Guido Police Officer White male Black female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Michael Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 20 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 20 years old Exonerated 2005
Paul Chierico Police Officer White male Black female, 21 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Parks Police Officer Black male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Langlois Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2005
Giovanni Giovanniello Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2005
Jason Forgione Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2005
Charles Stewart Police Officer Black male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Boehm Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2005
Yuseff Hamm Police Officer Black male Black male, 43 years old Exonerated 2004
John Baumeister Police Officer White male Unknown male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Patrick Gaines Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Patrick Gaines Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2004
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Carlos Lozada Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 20 years old Exonerated 2004
John Baumeister Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
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.
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