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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
William Diab Lieutenant White male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2018
Matthew Disilvestre Police Officer White male Black female, 21 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2018
Maxwell Bindman Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 36 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
David Bleck Police Officer White male White male, 75 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Jonathan Rothenberg Police Officer White male Unknown female, 45 years old Exonerated 2018
Manuel Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 24 years old Exonerated 2018
Vallery Alexis Police Officer Black male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Edgar Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2018
Edmundo Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 36 years old Exonerated 2017
Matthew Disilvestre Police Officer White male Black male, 55 years old Exonerated 2017
Sicelin Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
William Simon Detective White male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2017
Davon Alston Sergeant Black male Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2017
Thomas Martilla Police Officer White male White male, 57 years old Exonerated 2017
Uriel Lames Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Exonerated 2017
Todd Jacoby Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 22 years old Exonerated 2017
Peter Besse Police Officer White male Black male, 14 years old Exonerated 2017
Michael Raheb Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2017
Joseph Sotira Police Officer White male Asian male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Daniel Callinan Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 49 years old Exonerated 2017
Joseph Schneider Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2017
Daniel Oh Police Officer Asian male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Craig Basler Sergeant White male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2017
Christian Cayenne Police Officer Black male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2017
Alan Chau Sergeant Asian male Black male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
David Sammarco Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Exonerated 2017
Vincent Agostino Detective White male Black male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Gargano Police Officer White male Black female, 33 years old Exonerated 2017
Ashleigh Sofia Sergeant White female Unknown male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Elvin Gashi Detective White male Black female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Matthew Sabella Police Officer White male Black not described, 38 years old Exonerated 2017
Kristo Cevi Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Roy Abounaoum Detective White male Other Race male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jeffrey Adaszewski Police Officer White male White male, 29 years old Exonerated 2017
Vitaliy Zelikov Lieutenant White male Refused female, 35 years old Exonerated 2017
Kevin Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 27 years old Exonerated 2017
Oscar Nunez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Mccarthy Police Officer White male Black male, 15 years old Exonerated 2017
John Katehis Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 12 years old Exonerated 2017
Brandon Gembecki Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 37 years old Exonerated 2017
Brian Mahon Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
James Olson Police Officer White male White female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Francis Conejo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2017
Melvin Moultrie Sergeant Black male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jean Alejandro Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2017
Peter Ahn Sergeant Asian male Unknown female, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Hemadeh Fattah Detective White male Black female, 28 years old Exonerated 2017
Jason Merchan Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 43 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Jean Alejandro Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Melvin Moultrie Sergeant Black male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2017
Jonathan Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2017
Brian Query Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2017
Jonathan Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2017
Jonathan Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Yesenia Velazquez Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 28 years old Exonerated 2017
Christophe Greiner Detective White male Hispanic male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Becker Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Christophe Greiner Detective White male Hispanic male, 37 years old Exonerated 2017
Charles Gove Police Officer White male Unknown male, 30 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Melvin Moultrie Sergeant Black male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Pasquale Dethomas Police Officer White male Black male, 13 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Thomas Smith Police Officer White male White male, 30 years old Exonerated 2017
Thomas Smith Police Officer White male White male, 30 years old Exonerated 2017
Mark Holder Detective Black male Hispanic male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Mark Holder Detective Black male Hispanic male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Gregory Kennedy Detective Black male Black female, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Laborde Police Officer Black male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2017
Gregory Kennedy Detective Black male Black female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Tonica Corlette Sergeant Black female Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2017
Alexander Caruso Police Officer White male White male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
John Parente Sergeant White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2017
Evan Mele Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Daniel Oh Police Officer Asian male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Sean Liscoe Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 50 years old Exonerated 2017
Christophe Aylward Police Officer White male Refused male, 26 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Gregory Kennedy Detective Black male Black female, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Gregory Kennedy Detective Black male Black female, 22 years old Exonerated 2017
Christophe Aylward Police Officer White male Refused male, 26 years old Exonerated 2017
John Baumeister Detective White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Sean Mcdonnell Police Officer White male Black female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
William Diab Lieutenant White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Thomas Manning Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2017
Christophe Aylward Police Officer White male Refused male, 26 years old Exonerated 2017
Abiola Errico Police Officer Black female Black female, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Paul Robinson Detective Black male Hispanic female, 16 years old Exonerated 2017
Daniel Nunez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Robert Falcone Sergeant White male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2017
Jonathan Colon Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2017
Gregory Kennedy Detective Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Thomas Cancilla Police Officer White male White male, 30 years old Exonerated 2017
James Campiglia Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2017
Victor Reynoso Police Officer Hispanic male White female, 64 years old Exonerated 2017
Shibu Madhu Lieutenant Asian male Black female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Dominic Cappiello Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Joby Thomas Police Officer Asian male Hispanic female, 31 years old Exonerated 2017
Joby Thomas Police Officer Asian male Hispanic female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Sharif Portee Police Officer Black male Black female, 18 years old Exonerated 2017
Christophe Ward Lieutenant White male Other Race female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
James Biondo Police Officer White male White female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Sharif Portee Police Officer Black male Black female, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
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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