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Offensive Language: Ethnicity

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.

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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
Paul Mcmahon	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Edward Colucci	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Sean Edwards	Detective	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Felix Graciani	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Alejandro Rivas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 62 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Kelly Maldonado	Police Officer	Black female	White female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Daniel Alessandrino	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Kevin Nolan	Police Officer	White male	White female, 58 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Eli Slavkin	Police Officer	White male	Black female	Unsubstantiated	2006
Neil Zuber	Police Officer	White male	White female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Kirth Buckley	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown not described	Unsubstantiated	2006
William Simon	Police Officer	White male	White male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Peter Borukhov	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Karanlall Brijbukhan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Matzinger	Sergeant	White male	White male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Vito Nicoletta	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Edward Reardon	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Matthew Wright	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ioannis Rizos	Police Officer	White male	White female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Other Race male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Clifton Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christophe Paul	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Woody Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Luis Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Howard Zweben	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Theohari Koumniotes	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Francisco Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Gregory Zakoscielny	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Luis Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Brendan Egan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Steven Ramunno	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frank Calafiore	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Lynn Ruger	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Maurice Harrington	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Qamar Zaman	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Raheen Rivers	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jack Dagnese	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kevin Houst	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Gabriel Feliciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race female, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Jennifer Cittadino	Police Officer	White female	Asian male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Paul	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Ierardi	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Domingo Arjona	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Momen Attia	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Johnpaul Slater	Detective	White male	Black female, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Callinan	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Castaldo	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Paul Robinson	Detective	Black male	Asian male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Malachi Mckenith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Michael Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Kathryn Barry	Police Officer	Black female	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Angie Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Carlos Silva	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Migdalia Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Asian male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Hispanic male, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Christophe Winiarz	Sergeant	White male	American Indian male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Arthur Golfphin	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jason Santana	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jonathan Re	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Ramu Hiller	Detective	Asian male	Unknown male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph Musarra	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daniel Sitruk	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Konti Markvukaj	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Hadi Saifi	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph Sotira	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Schwaner	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 66 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
John Gergis	Police Officer	White male	White male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Andrew Beirne	Police Officer	White male	White male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Edward Mcbride	Detective	White male	White female, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Douglas Schack	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Anthony Wright	Detective	Black male	White male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Andrew Buck	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Danamarie Alessio	Police Officer	White female	Other Race male	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2019
Christophe Demenezes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Douglas Carr	Detective	Black male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019

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.