The NYPD Files
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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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.
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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 |
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Kenneth Lehr | Inspector | White male | Unknown male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Hassan Gheith | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jeanne Williams | Police Officer | White female | Black female, 50 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Mohamadyah Patwekar | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 12 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Tyler Marshall | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Steven Dejesussmith | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 15 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Kieran Tracy | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Michael Smith | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Jeffrey Gryz | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Manuel Gutierrez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Pedro Vallecillo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Trevor Baronette | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
John Albertelli | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Brendan Reilly | Police Officer | White male | White female, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Matthew Mauro | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Seth Lynch | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic female, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Robert Graves | Detective | White male | Black male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Yuseff Hamm | Detective | Black male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Yuseff Hamm | Detective | Black male | Unknown male, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Ricardo Cuenca | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Rodney Harrison | Chiefs and other ranks | Black male | Refused male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Edwin Ching | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Victor Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Michael Daly | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Juan Guzman | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 65 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Railyng Frias | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Edwin Ching | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic female, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
John Zorrilla | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Colin Mcguire | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Richard Young | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Dino Tamayo | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black female, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jeffrey Mota | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 14 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Christian Rojas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Latoya Paradise | Police Officer | Black female | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Efrain Rojas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Louis Depergola | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Aneesah Mitchell | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Other Race female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2014 |
Ralph Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 13 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Justin Allen | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Robert Graves | Detective | White male | Black female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Wilson Alba | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Wilson Alba | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Felix Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Brian Bartley | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Joseph Marquez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Dwight Powell | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Bekim Kalicovic | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
James Miles | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Gelono Joshua | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic male, 44 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Nathaniel Anthony | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
William Tergesen | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Michael Ashford | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 12 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jacob Aaronson | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
James Titus | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Gelono Joshua | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Philip Depasquale | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Gelono Joshua | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic female, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Jeremy Veit | Detective | White male | Black female, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Felix Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Gelono Joshua | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic female, 71 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Thomas Fitzgerald | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Jorge Tavarez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | White male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jorge Tavarez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Joseph Degen | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 44 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Joseph Degen | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 43 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Mike Civil | Detective | Black male | Other Race male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Kyle Stanley | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Kyle Stanley | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
James Giamboi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Mike Civil | Detective | Black male | Hispanic male, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Daniel Sitruk | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Lawrence Wang | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Ray Dutton | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Robert Deferrari | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Juan Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 15 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Nelson Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Nelson Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
Michael Greaney | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Nelson Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Mathew Reich | Detective | White male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Jorge Tavarez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Not available female | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Michael Tarulli | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
John Zanca | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Vincent Ciardiello | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Sean Collins | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Jonathan Glazer | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Michael Carleo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Joseph Dalbero | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Gary Leite | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Joseph Dalbero | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Joseph Dalbero | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Matthew Wright | Detective | White male | Black female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Johnanthon Alexander | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Michael Mccaffrey | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Johnpaul Vinculado | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Brian Volpi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Joseph Weldon | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Robert Orlando | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
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.