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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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.

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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
83
Complaints
84
Allegations
84

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.
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