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
Paul Padilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Liam Ohara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Shaun Healy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2015
Joseph Foss	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2015
Charles Davis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Julio Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Shameeka Cummings	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2015
Martin Cunningham	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Philip Vaccarino	Detective	White male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Philip Vaccarino	Detective	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brian Mccloskey	Detective	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Brian Motyka	Police Officer	White male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Salerno	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2015
Bravo Zayas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jason Greenberg	Police Officer	White male	White male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Jason Greenberg	Police Officer	White male	White male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Eduardo Perezromero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Dennis Vargas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mauricio Thomas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Daniel Hachemeister	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Julio Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2015
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Sergeant	White male	White male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jolan Lewis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jean Francisco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Unknown female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2015
Juan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Bravo Zayas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Clyde Jasmin	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 66 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Paul Mccarthy	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
William Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Henry Daverin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Henry Daverin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jonathan Re	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2014
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Not available female	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Gustavo Montesdeoca	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Gustavo Ochoa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Jeremy Veit	Detective	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Jacob Aaronson	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nelson Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nelson Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Patrick Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Mccarthy	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Neil Odonnell	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Matthew Lewis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jeffrey Griffin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2014
Nelson Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Ashford	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2014
Ryan Galvin	Police Officer	White male	White male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jordan Castro	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2014
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Steven Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown female, 57 years old	Exonerated	2014
William Tergesen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Blasetti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Max Rolffot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Louis Depergola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2014
Max Rolffot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Tarangelo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Jonathan Glazer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Richard Reilly	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Colin Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	White male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2014
John Moise	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2014
Jonathan Glazer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Dennis Westbrook	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Garcia	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Kenneth Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Johnanthon Alexander	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2014
Johnpaul Vinculado	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Pedro Almanzar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2014
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joseph Weldon	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe Ward	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Edwin Peguero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Calvin Searcy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Dustin Dimpflmaier	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Allen Moore	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Thomas Ramirez	Detective	Hispanic male	White female, 18 years old	Exonerated	2014
Christophe Ward	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kevin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joel Edwards	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Frank Altieri	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Derrick Barnes	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2014
Andrew Duguid	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Terrence Howard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014

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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.