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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Frank Bulzoni Police Officer White male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2008
Adan Munoz Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 29 years old Exonerated 2008
Leon Pedigo Police Officer White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2008
Arthur Golfphin Police Officer Black male Other Race male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Trevor Baronette Detective Black male Black male, 63 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Christophe Goldrick Police Officer White male White male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Sean Mchugh Sergeant White male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2008
Charne Jimenez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2008
Kaz Daughtry Police Officer Black male Unknown male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Kaz Daughtry Police Officer Black male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Kaz Daughtry Police Officer Black male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2008
Sean Mchugh Sergeant White male Unknown male, 20 years old Exonerated 2008
Christophe Owen Sergeant White male Unknown female, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Jorge Ulloa Detective Hispanic male White male, 26 years old Exonerated 2008
Jorge Ulloa Detective Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Michael Szczecinski Police Officer White male Black female, 28 years old Exonerated 2008
David Sammarco Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2008
Charles Brown Police Officer Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
David Sammarco Police Officer White male Black female, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Leo Ma Police Officer Asian male White female, 37 years old Exonerated 2008
Kevin Colvin Police Officer White male Black male, 51 years old Exonerated 2008
Daniel Young Police Officer White male Black male Exonerated 2008
Rafael Perdomo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 48 years old Exonerated 2008
Rafael Perdomo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2008
James Delumen Detective White male Black male, 48 years old Exonerated 2008
Patrick Jean Police Officer Black male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2008
Brian Stanley Police Officer White male White male, 23 years old Exonerated 2008
Gabriel Baaith Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Patrick Sullivan Police Officer White male Hispanic female Exonerated 2008
Robert Numssen Detective White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Angela Polancobrito Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 29 years old Exonerated 2008
Albert Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Frankie Soler Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Exonerated 2008
Darrin Smalls Police Officer Black male Not available male, 18 years old Exonerated 2008
Roberto Suarez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 14 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Eduard Nogol Police Officer White male Black female, 14 years old Exonerated 2008
Jaime Santiago Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2008
Jaime Santiago Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male Unsubstantiated 2008
Kieran Fox Police Officer White male Black female, 23 years old Exonerated 2008
Pedro Romero Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 54 years old Exonerated 2008
Lorenzo Jones Police Officer Black male Black male, 61 years old Exonerated 2008
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2008
Justin Cracchiola Police Officer White male Other Race male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Justin Cracchiola Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Jorge Mergeche Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Brendan Egan Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Devin Long Police Officer Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Eustace Hunte Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Black female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Charles Rubenstrunk Police Officer White male White male, 53 years old Exonerated 2008
Jose Villafane Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2008
Nikolaos Stefopoulos Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2008
Carl Scogmanillo Police Officer White male Black female, 50 years old Exonerated 2008
Jose Acevedo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Paul Prendergast Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Vincent Fontana Sergeant White male White male, 25 years old Exonerated 2008
Daniel Beddows Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2008
Daniel Beddows Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2008
Carlos Velez Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 33 years old Exonerated 2008
Vincent Trozzi Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 39 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Jeremiah Williams Police Officer Black male Black female, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Joseph Agosta Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 49 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2008
Chanae Martin Police Officer Black female Hispanic female, 64 years old Exonerated 2008
Nathan Mole Sergeant Black male Black female, 24 years old Exonerated 2008
Juan Burgos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2008
Gennaro Russo Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Scott Nuzzi Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Mark Offenbacher Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Luis Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Luis Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Samantha Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 64 years old Exonerated 2008
John Uske Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2008
Ramiro Ruiz Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Keith Cheng Police Officer Asian male Hispanic male, 54 years old Exonerated 2008
Eric Ruiz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
John Musante Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
David Cussen Police Officer White male Black female, 20 years old Exonerated 2008
Willie Johnson Detective Black male Hispanic male, 23 years old Exonerated 2008
Joseph Flynn Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 47 years old Exonerated 2008
David Cussen Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Dion Edwards Police Officer Black male Black male, 51 years old Exonerated 2008
Dion Edwards Police Officer Black male Black male, 49 years old Exonerated 2008
Marcy Velez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2008
Zoilo Encarnacion Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 63 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Orlando Colon Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2008
Jay Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2008
Charles Ingrassia Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Exonerated 2008
Christophe Salamone Police Officer White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2008
John Ferrara Police Officer White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2008
Jorge Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 65 years old Exonerated 2008
John Parente Sergeant White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2008
John Parente Sergeant White male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Christophe Siani Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2008
Ricardo Otero Police Officer Hispanic male Other Race male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 31 years old Exonerated 2008
Gustavo Medina Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2008
Ezequiel Gutierrez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 28 years old Exonerated 2008
Bryan Zuccaro Detective White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Dion Edwards Detective Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Jorge Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
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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