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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Zoilo Encarnacion Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2002
Michael Dunn Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 39 years old Exonerated 2002
Michael Sikos Police Officer White male Black male Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Anthony Longobardi Police Officer White male White male, 35 years old Exonerated 2002
William Buchanan Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2002
Sean Walsh Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2002
Brian Farrelly Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Ramu Hiller Police Officer Asian male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Nico Hewitt Police Officer Black male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2002
David Cuce Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2002
Jeremiah Williams Police Officer Black male Black female, 64 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Kurt Jones Police Officer Black male Black male, 14 years old Exonerated 2002
Joey Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 30 years old Exonerated 2002
Christophe Cooke Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
James Baez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Oswaldo Carrion Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Scott Henderson Sergeant Black male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Patrick Brown Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Michael Seiling Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2002
Patrick Brown Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Andrew Bershad Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Patrick Cortright Lieutenant White male Not available , 9 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Miguel Sanchez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Exonerated 2002
John Roberts Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2002
Phillip Reyes Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 13 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Jesus Capo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 45 years old Exonerated 2002
Angel Arroyo Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2002
Paul Deentremont Captain White male Black female, 13 years old Exonerated 2002
Selwyn Fonrose Police Officer Black male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2002
Edward Barry Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 31 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Paul Deentremont Captain White male Black female, 41 years old Exonerated 2002
Christophe Lawrence Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Brian Mullen Sergeant White male White male, 34 years old Exonerated 2002
Joseph Mineo Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Curtis Crystal Sergeant White male Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Curtis Crystal Sergeant White male Black male, 47 years old Exonerated 2002
Curtis Crystal Sergeant White male White male, 62 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Joseph Mineo Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Robert Nugent Police Officer White male Asian male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Federico Martinez Sergeant Hispanic male White male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Robert Nugent Police Officer White male Asian male, 36 years old Exonerated 2002
Joseph Mineo Police Officer White male Not available male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Daniel Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Craig Crisfield Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 40 years old Exonerated 2002
Daniel Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Paul Deentremont Lieutenant White male Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Thomas Mclaughlin Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2002
Brian Depalo Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 76 years old Exonerated 2002
Joseph Bell Lieutenant White male White male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Michael Goldreyer Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Robert Kelly Police Officer White male White male, 34 years old Exonerated 2002
Luis Bellapianta Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 26 years old Exonerated 2002
Joseph Bell Lieutenant White male White male, 14 years old Exonerated 2002
Jorge Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 26 years old Exonerated 2002
Jorge Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Andrew Bershad Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Andrew Bershad Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2002
Andrew Bershad Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Anthony Russo Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Exonerated 2002
Joseph Bell Lieutenant White male White female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Mark Oconnell Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 31 years old Exonerated 2002
David Casey Detective Asian male White male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Christophe Valis Sergeant White male Asian male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Anthony Davila Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 49 years old Exonerated 2002
Herbert Martin Police Officer White male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 11 years old Exonerated 2002
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Kevin Matthews Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Johnpaul Slater Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 43 years old Exonerated 2002
Anthony Demonte Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
David Demelia Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Mark Dipaolo Lieutenant White male Black female, 42 years old Exonerated 2002
Richard Hyde Detective White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Exonerated 2002
David Demelia Police Officer White male Black male, 37 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Michael Ernst Police Officer White male Black female, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Timothy Donnelly Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2001
Timothy Donnelly Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2001
Patrick Gaines Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2001
Edward Colucci Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2001
Luis Robles Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 21 years old Exonerated 2001
Robert Corbett Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Robert Henderson Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2001
Corey Grable Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2001
Alex Toro Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Exonerated 2001
Jeannette Brenes Police Officer White female Hispanic male, 15 years old Exonerated 2001
Pedro Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2001
Cedric Green Police Officer Black male Black male, 51 years old Exonerated 2001
Ischaler Grant Sergeant Black male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2001
Robert Numssen Police Officer White male Black male Exonerated 2001
Christophe Cantelmi Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Exonerated 2001
Isa Abbassi Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 22 years old Exonerated 2001
Michael Ingram Detective Black male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2001
David Oconnell Police Officer White male White male, 33 years old Exonerated 2001
Robert Henderson Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2001
Dustin Genco Detective White male Black male, 14 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
John Potkay Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Patricio Ovando Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2001
Eric Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Brian Ilund Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2001
Robert Lotufo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 46 years old Exonerated 2001
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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