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
Luis Machado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Francisco Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Scott Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Sekou Bourne	Detective	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Francisco Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Nicholas Digaudio	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jorge Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2008
Juan Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
Philip Picciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Michael Raso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2008
Cesar Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
Brian Ellensohn	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Derek Sambolin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jorge Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Brian Ellensohn	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Brian Ellensohn	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
William Taylor	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Brian Ellensohn	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2008
Alberto Pizarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2008
Jonathan Troncoso	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Jonathan Troncoso	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Sergio Merino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joseph Ross	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Other Race male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2008
Wilmar Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Wilmar Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Greg Vallerugo	Police Officer	White male	White male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2008
Gene Etoria	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2008
Louis Cardenas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Felix Delcarpio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
James Mahoney	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Theodore Lauterborn	Captain	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2008
James Mahoney	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2008
Mathew Reich	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Isaac Branch	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Derrick Boyd	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
Brendan Dono	Police Officer	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2008
Timothy Harrington	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2008
Julian Coston	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
James Mahoney	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2008
Amaury Soriano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2008
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
William Beattie	Police Officer	White male	White male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2007
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Mark Dipaolo	Captain	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jay Wolsky	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Carlos Matos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
James Eisert	Detective	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Larkin	Police Officer	White male	White male, 58 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joseph Matzinger	Sergeant	White male	White male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2007
Radoslaw Terepka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Miguel Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 75 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Kristian Flood	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Todd Jacoby	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2007
Vincent Calderone	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Robert Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2007
Winston Willabus	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2007
Erlene Wiltshire	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Ramon Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2007
Joseph Brunetti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
David Creely	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Victor Paribello	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2007
Andrew Valenzano	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2007
Robert Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2007
Patrick Quigley	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Richard Romance	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Brian Manning	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007
Bilal Ates	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Tsz Kwan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Orin Cox	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Javier Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kirk Boone	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
David Creely	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 12 years old	Exonerated	2007
Derek Barreto	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Greiner	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Parks	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	White female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2007
Daniel Ticali	Detective	American Indian male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Nino Lama	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Tarulli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
John Hopkins	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2007
Brian Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jolene Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Dominick Nasso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Guzzino	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Robert Romano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2007
Matthew Wright	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Daniel Baca	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Dominick Nasso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2007

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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.