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
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

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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.