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