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
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Bekim Kalicovic	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christophe Doll	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Kevon Sample	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brian Byrnes	Sergeant	White male	Asian female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brian Motyka	Police Officer	White male	Unknown female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2016
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Albert Castillo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joseph Wernersbach	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2016
Kamil Pac	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Ramu Hiller	Detective	Asian male	Unknown male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Juan Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2016
Christophe Lembo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Juan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jesse Lance	Captain	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2016
Christophe Lembo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Ramu Hiller	Detective	Asian male	Unknown male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2016
Fernando Caches	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Luis Marte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Joel Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2016
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Brian Motyka	Police Officer	White male	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2016
Augustine Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Lawrence Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Armando Cardenio	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Gerald Cucchiara	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joseph Franco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Elmer Pastran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Lawrence Sanchez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2016
Sajit Tomy	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2016
Marc Loyola	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Makiba Brathwaitezimmerma	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 56 years old	Exonerated	2016
Mayko Matos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2016
Amit Dua	Sergeant	Asian male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Roman Israilov	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2016
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Luis Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jonathan Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2016
Yahkeem White	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jonathan Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daniel Coyle	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Malcial Tuero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2016
Malcial Tuero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Daniel Coyle	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Kristo Cevi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2016
Christophe Chin	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2016
Herman Lai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Daniel Gasperetti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Rafal Korycki	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Rafal Korycki	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2016
Fernando Grace	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Eric Francis	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
James Walsh	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michal Jalbrzykowski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2016
Christian Spina	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2016
John Panik	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Stephen Loffredo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2016
Patrick Reilly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2016
Sherwin Ogbewele	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Desmond Mohan	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Daniel Gasperetti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2016
Sean Aman	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2016
Harish Mansharamani	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2016
Justin Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2016
Fernando Grace	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Anthony Sasso	Police Officer	White male	Asian male	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Kenneth Sepulveda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Mandeep Singh	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Terrance Smalls	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Matthew Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Schumacher	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
James Lee	Lieutenant	Asian male	White female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Cusumano	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Steven Moran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Joseph Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Zachery Zinaman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Ryan Pretty	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2016
Tyrone Seely	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2016
Kelvin Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2016
Vito Poliseno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Kellan Oneill	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joshua Navarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2016
Joshua Navarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2016
Dominick Raso	Sergeant	White male	White male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
David Mercado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2016
Fernando Grace	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Thomas Cancilla	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Edward Guzik	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 67 years old	Exonerated	2016
Adam Imperato	Police Officer	White male	White male, 64 years old	Exonerated	2016
Edwin Soto	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 59 years old	Exonerated	2016
Christophe Schlitt	Police Officer	White male	White male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2016
Tyrone Seely	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Vincent Calderone	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Angelo Cupo	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2016
Vincent Calderone	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	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.