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
Anthony Romero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2010
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Stephen Ward	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Catherine Kunst	Police Officer	White female	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Bryan Carney	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Liam Swords	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2010
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2010
Eric Dym	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2010
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 61 years old	Exonerated	2010
Duane Percy	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Steven Weiss	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2010
Cecilio Ramos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Eric Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2010
Eric Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Thomas Napolitano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Carlos Viera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christophe Kerbis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2010
Yoosup Shim	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic female, 15 years old	Exonerated	2010
William Larkin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2010
Dominick Nasso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Charles Cavallaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2010
Dominick Nasso	Police Officer	White male	Refused female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
Luis Robles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Leonardo Deoliveira	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jeffrey Maddrey	Inspector	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2010
Brian Capers	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jaysen Basnight	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jason Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2010
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2010
Theohari Koumniotes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Alvin Pizarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2010
Frank Muirhead	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Bryan Zuccaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
Ronald Hobson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2010
Robert Castillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2010
James Titus	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Louis Guglielmo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joel Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2010
Martin Costello	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Amit Dua	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Anand Bhoj	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Pitkewicz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2010
Thomas Demkiw	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joseph Barbella	Police Officer	White male	White male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Scialabba	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Daniel Barreto	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Daniel Barreto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Emile Provencher	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Exonerated	2010
Paul Chierico	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
Eric Healy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Angela Polancobrito	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Daniel Acosta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2010
Gerasimos Pyramides	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ryan Baer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Loeffel	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Rafael Perdomo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2010
Charesse Davis	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 32 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2010
Anthony Cimmino	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 53 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jason Korpolinski	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2010
Alfredo Brewster	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2010
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2010
Thomas Boller	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2010
Timothy Jaycox	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Patrick Dooley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2010
Alexander Grandstaff	Detective	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Daniel Gukelberger	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2010
Frank Altieri	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ralph Remy	Police Officer	Black male	Not available male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2010
Patrick Dooley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Ralph Remy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2010
William Glynn	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Andrew Hatki	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Justin Ellis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jose Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Amit Dua	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jose Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2010
Kevin Mockel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
Reuben Antwi	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Stephen Dimassa	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Diana Pichardo	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2010
Darren King	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Angelo Pizzarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Robert Castro	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Robert Barnett	Sergeant	White male	White male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2010
Martin Gimenez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Simon Rashid	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2010
Victor Rosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Scott Sanseverino	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2010
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christian Addison	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2010
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Alexis Dejesus	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2010

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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.