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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Ricardo Bocachica Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Wilfredo Ramos Lieutenant Hispanic male White female, 29 years old Exonerated 2013
Michael Doyle Lieutenant White male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2013
Michael Doyle Lieutenant White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2013
David Guevara Detective Hispanic male Black male, 64 years old Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2013
Declan Ludington Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Frank Desiderato Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2013
Wilfredo Ramos Lieutenant Hispanic male White female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Farid Aliyev Sergeant White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Angelo Machicote Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 58 years old Exonerated 2013
Angel Delgado Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Tyrane Isaac Police Officer Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Declan Ludington Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Dennis Jaeger Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2013
Michael Butler Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Joel Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jerry Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Charles Gove Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Kenneth Douglas Police Officer Black male Unknown female, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Kenneth Douglas Police Officer Black male Asian male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Kenneth Douglas Police Officer Black male Asian female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Kenneth Douglas Police Officer Black male Other Race male, 19 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Christophe Derco Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2013
Ryan Puglisi Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Gerard Walker Sergeant Black male Hispanic male, 41 years old Exonerated 2013
Orlando Phillip Sergeant Black male Other Race female, 22 years old Exonerated 2013
Michael Mchugh Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2013
Patrick Oneill Police Officer White male White male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Randolph Price Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Catherine Kunst Sergeant White female Hispanic female, 56 years old Exonerated 2013
Piero Lasaponara Police Officer White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2013
Jose Dejesus Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Thomas Fitzgerald Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2013
Charles Arnone Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Brian Schulman Police Officer White male White female, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Richard Young Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 28 years old Exonerated 2013
Richard Young Police Officer White male Black male, 13 years old Exonerated 2013
Jason Deonarinesingh Sergeant Black male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2013
Eliot Arias Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 46 years old Exonerated 2013
Garry Lamour Police Officer Black male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Garry Lamour Police Officer Black male White male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Javier Valentin Lieutenant Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
John Baumeister Detective White male Black female, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Patrick Thompson Police Officer White male Refused male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jovaniel Cordova Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Amaury Soriano Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
John Mchugh Detective White male Black male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Nicholas Derleth Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Alexis Aguirre Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 41 years old Exonerated 2013
Miguel Marte Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Kaisser Surriga Police Officer Asian male Asian male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Julio Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2013
Robert Castro Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Joseph Viggiano Detective White male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Frank Baldo Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Tyler Ruthizer Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Paul Dieugenia Police Officer White male Black male, 46 years old Exonerated 2013
Dominick Vasaturo Detective White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2013
Dikensy Moussignac Police Officer Black male White female, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Joseph Hickey Detective White male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Emile Provencher Lieutenant White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Sean Pallone Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Eric Perez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2013
Rexford Asiedu Police Officer Black male White male, 31 years old Exonerated 2013
Christophe Beckett Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2013
Joseph Matzinger Captain White male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Lyudmila Howell Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 39 years old Exonerated 2013
Ryan Pretty Police Officer White male Black female, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Lanier Glenn Lieutenant Black male Hispanic female, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Stephen Schoefer Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
John Ryan Sergeant White male White male, 30 years old Exonerated 2013
Lanier Glenn Lieutenant Black male Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jose Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Scott Berger Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Josh Kaveney Detective White male Hispanic male, 28 years old Exonerated 2013
Emrah Ates Detective White male Black male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Lanier Glenn Lieutenant Black male Hispanic male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Troy Luis Sergeant Black male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2013
Jude Sciarillo Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2013
Gabriel Nacelewicz Detective White male Hispanic male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Daniel Castaldo Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Michael Tarulli Police Officer White male Unknown male, 57 years old Exonerated 2013
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Steven Gansrow Detective White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Sean Downes Sergeant White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Nicholas Scalzo Police Officer White male Black female, 46 years old Exonerated 2013
Andrew Lipari Police Officer White male Other Race male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Mark Scarlatelli Detective White male Unknown male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Mark Scarlatelli Detective White male White male, 30 years old Exonerated 2013
Michael Pappalardo Police Officer White male White female, 26 years old Exonerated 2013
Brett Healy Police Officer White male Black female, 46 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Adnan Radoncic Sergeant White male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Adnan Radoncic Sergeant White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Anthony Cimmino Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Anthony Cimmino Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 44 years old Exonerated 2013
James Campbell Police Officer White male White female, 71 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Erick Erdaide Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Anand Bhoj Lieutenant Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Dmitry Brush Sergeant White male Black female, 46 years old Exonerated 2013
Mauricio Thomas Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
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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