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
Idris Guven	Lieutenant	White male	White female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Derrick Mcintosh	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Jean Alejandro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Anthony Baresi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Idris Guven	Lieutenant	White male	Refused male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jean Alejandro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jose Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Artur Espenberg	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 15 years old	Exonerated	2017
Lamont Gibson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Cesar Gomez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Nicholas Canepa	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2017
Frank Ryan	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2017
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2017
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Callinan	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2017
David Lamarre	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2017
Daniel Oh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Melvin Moultrie	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
David Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Peter Guido	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 14 years old	Exonerated	2017
Peter Borisenko	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Daniel Oh	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Swicicki	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2017
Evan Mele	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Schneider	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2017
Thomas Cancilla	Police Officer	White male	White male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2017
Kenny Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Melvin Moultrie	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2017
Sicelin Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Kenny Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Triston Trunk	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2017
Thomas Cancilla	Police Officer	White male	White male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Michael Heinz	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Connor Lichte	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Refused male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2017
Martin Cunningham	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
David Grieco	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2017
Connor Lichte	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Jesus Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2017
Michael Heinz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Davon Alston	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2017
Matthew Sabella	Police Officer	White male	Black not described, 38 years old	Exonerated	2017
Hemadeh Fattah	Detective	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2017
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Refused female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2017
Vitaliy Zelikov	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 75 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jose Caban	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	White male	White male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2017
Hassan Gheith	Police Officer	White male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Michael Lunetta	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2017
Dominic Cappiello	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Elvin Gashi	Detective	White male	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Kristo Cevi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Triston Trunk	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Kenny Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Melvin Moultrie	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Hassan Gheith	Police Officer	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Augustine Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Exonerated	2017
Paul Robinson	Detective	Black male	Hispanic female, 16 years old	Exonerated	2017
Cesar Gomez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2017
Christian Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	White male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Robert Dominicci	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Frank Desiderato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brian Doherty	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
James Wilson	Sergeant	White male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Steven Owens	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 14 years old	Exonerated	2016
Tony Cuoco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Makiba Brathwaitezimmerma	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 56 years old	Exonerated	2016
Charles Buglione	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jaipaul Ramdat	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Desmond Mohan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Tony Cuoco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Brian Doherty	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Charles Buglione	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Rudy Anzalone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joseph Sotira	Police Officer	White male	Refused female, 51 years old	Exonerated	2016
Christophe Haws	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Richard Blasetti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2016
Mackenson Nelson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2016
Yurantz Assade	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2016
Shawn Phillips	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2016
Timothy Fox	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2016
Mackenson Nelson	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Paul Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ronald Remo	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 56 years old	Exonerated	2016
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Paul Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Asian female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Henry Daverin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Daniel Baca	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andre Morris	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016

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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.