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
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Frank Cannone	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Kevin Judge	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2001
Thomas Mclaughlin	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2001
Adrian Ashby	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2001
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2001
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2001
Anthony Contessa	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Michael Egan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2001
Cesar Marinelli	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2001
Joseph Gulotta	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2001
Kevin Royall	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Terence Curran	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2001
Steven Green	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2001
Raymond Jansen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Dino Tamayo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2001
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2001
Victor Appel	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2001
Joseph Brunetti	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2001
Brian Ilund	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2001
Marianela Tejada	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Matthew Lamendola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2001
Sean Edwards	Detective	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2001
Michael Pilecki	Captain	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2001
Michael Pilecki	Captain	White male	Black female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2001
James Williams	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2001
Jose Delrosario	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2001
Francisco Rosado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male	Exonerated	2001
Christophe Schmidt	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Jaime Feliciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2001
Frank Burns	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Michael Gaine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2001
Herbert Martin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2001
Frank Burns	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Brendan Obrien	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Robert Krohley	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2001
Claude Jeanpierre	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Thomas Decker	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2001
Manuel Pombo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2001
Jalin Bulding	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2001
Christophe Cooke	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Kenneth Oconnor	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2001
Richard Hyde	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2001
Richard Debraux	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Eric Ruiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2001
Robert Henderson	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Franklin Bohr	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Herbert Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2001
Rudolph Hall	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2001
Michael Gaine	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2001
Sean Mccarthy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2001
Andrew Kinsella	Police Officer	White male	White male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2001
Anthony Longobardi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Rudolph Hall	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Anthony Longobardi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 80 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Victor Pal	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2001
John Kealy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Ronald Bolte	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 17 years old	Exonerated	2000
John Dorst	Sergeant	White male	White female, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
John Dorst	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Eric Beckel	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2000
Kevin Matthews	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2000
Angel Leon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2000
Steven Weiss	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2000
Edwin Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2000
James Ecker	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
David Nisthaus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2000
James Ecker	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2000
Joseph Tallarine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
William Powell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 86 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Guy Napoli	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2000
Isa Abbassi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2000
David Demelia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Barbara Fischer	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2000
John Jacoby	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2000
Terrence Cane	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2000
Ernest Morales	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2000
Lissette Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2000
Robert Henderson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2000
Peter Duke	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Anna Serrano	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Not available	Exonerated	2000
Michael Egan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2000
Welington Feliz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2000
Richard Adamiak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Christophe Breslin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2000
Kenneth Oconnor	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Richard Hyde	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Gregory Butler	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Exonerated	2000
Howard Shank	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Scott Lynster	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2000
Gregory Butler	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2000
Victor Appel	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 15 years old	Exonerated	2000
Joseph Tallarine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
David Echevarria	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Marie Smith	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Fitzroy Vigilance	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2000
Michael Windsor	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 18 years old	Exonerated	2000
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2000
Gerald Breiner	Detective	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Jose Peinan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2000

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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.