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
Franklin Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ryan Pretty	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2016
Daniel Coyle	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Frederic Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2016
Frederic Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Gerardo Perrone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Frederic Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Michael Dambrogio	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2016
Daniel Coyle	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Franklin Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Zachery Zinaman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Eric Francis	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Harish Mansharamani	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2016
Frank Desiderato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Fernando Grace	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Tony Cuoco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Pedro Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2016
Brendan Grace	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Fernando Grace	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Brian Doherty	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Fernando Grace	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Sandra Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Manuel Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Julio Meyreles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Rafal Korycki	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Tony Cuoco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Miguel Donovan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brian Doherty	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Tonica Corlette	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Fitzroy Vigilance	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Yurantz Assade	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2016
Matthew Lambert	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2016
Edgar Veras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Fabian Nembhard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2016
Yurantz Assade	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2016
Charles Volante	Police Officer	White male	White male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Nicholas Vandyke	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ernesto Bautista	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Konti Markvukaj	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Rudy Anzalone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michael Cusumano	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Thomas Geberth	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2016
Wilson Verdesoto	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
David Mercado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ferdi Memedoski	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kevon Sample	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Konti Markvukaj	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
David Savella	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Adam Conlin	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Francisco Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Adam Conlin	Detective	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joel Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Randy Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Jonathan Glazer	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 50 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joel Ayala	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Matthew Demaio	Police Officer	White male	White male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Mackenson Nelson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2016
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown not described	Exonerated	2016
Coty Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Matthew Dias	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Darnell Forrester	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Coty Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ronald Humphrey	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Matthew Demaio	Police Officer	White male	White male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daniel Castaldo	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2016
Yahkeem White	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Derrick Kreckmann	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Derrick Kreckmann	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2016
Ferdi Memedoski	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jason Vasquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 61 years old	Exonerated	2016
David Mercado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Daniel Castaldo	Police Officer	White male	White female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2016
Mackenson Nelson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Robert Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Darnell Forrester	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jolan Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Bosland	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jose Tabora	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joseph Sotira	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mark Sinatra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2015
Ramon Portillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jose Tabora	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mark Sinatra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Eduardo Perezromero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Carlos Pimentel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Nolan Lauterborn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Mccullough	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2015
Clinton Green	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Raul Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Mccullough	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2015
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2015
Wilfredo Benitez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Lance Walter	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Kristy Abbasciano	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Edwin Aguilar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015

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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.