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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
47
Complaints
46
Allegations
48

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
John Dorst Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2000
Joseph Ross Police Officer White male Black female, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Mahmoud Attia Police Officer White male Black male, 63 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Joseph Padula Police Officer White male Not available male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
John Hopkins Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Kevin Mockel Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Julio Hernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Mack Lipinski Detective White male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Charles Davis Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Kaz Daughtry Police Officer Black male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Dennis Harrigan Police Officer White male Black female, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
John Todaro Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jay Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Alejandro Valderrama Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Railyng Frias Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Harjit Singh Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Richard Charles Police Officer Black male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Thomas Ramirez Detective Hispanic male White female, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Angela Polancobrito Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Malachi Mckenith Police Officer Black male Black female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Martin Palazzo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Patrick Cherry Detective White male Asian male, 47 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2015
John Ferrara Sergeant White male Black male, 40 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Darrell Dass Police Officer Asian male White female, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Mark Sinatra Sergeant White male White female, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Denise Moroney Police Officer White female Not available female, 62 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Mark Sinatra Sergeant White male White female, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Shawn Phillips Police Officer White male Black female, 43 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Robert Salerno Detective White male Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Derrick Kreckmann Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 22 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Stacey Hulse Police Officer Hispanic female Other Race transman (ftm), 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Eddy Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 49 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Keyana Kendall Police Officer Black male Black female, 68 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Wilfredo Benitez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Ryan Olsen Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
Steven Ramunno Detective White male Black female, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Miguel Leon Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Christophe Pierre Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 32 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2018
Douglas Schack Sergeant Hispanic male White male, 50 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2018
Christophe Zaleski Lieutenant White male White female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Ananda Mirandamessner Police Officer Hispanic female White female, 65 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Giuseppe Oliveri Police Officer White male White female, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
John Pirando Sergeant Hispanic male White female, 30 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2019
Armando Colon Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 27 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2019
Heriberto Hernandez Sergeant Hispanic male White female, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Matthew Hammond Police Officer White male Asian male, 15 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2019
Jovanna Woloski Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 43 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2019
Kevon Sample Lieutenant Black male Black male, 56 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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