Offensive Language: RACE - The NYPD Files

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Offensive Language: Race

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

269

Complaints

283

Allegations

307

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
Daniel Young	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Sasha Brugal	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christopher McCormack	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Slavin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jesus Capo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2005
Brian Depalo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Paul Farella	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Livingston	Detective	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Isaac Branch	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 101 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Michael Haigh	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kevon Sample	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Brian Ellensohn	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Wilfredo Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Nicholas Digaudio	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
William Diab	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2018
William Diab	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Dennis Friendly	Detective	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Dennis Friendly	Detective	Black male	Black female, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Timothy Mccormack	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	1999
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Tarulli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Zozzaro	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Patrick Ryan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Melvin Moultrie	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jerry Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Donald Abrams	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Brian Kovarik	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Facchini	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
George Bonner	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Matthew Fried	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Matthew Granahan	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Ryan Galvin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Lorraine Bowden	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Gustavo Medina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Ryan Pretty	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 69 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Luis Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Nerys Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Nerys Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Flavio Rodriguez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Flavio Rodriguez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Edward Stackpole	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Nicholas Garafola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Nicholas Garafola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Nicholas Albergo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jennifer Laskykuehn	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Daniel Mufaddi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kevin Matthews	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2002
Barry Stokes	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Catherine Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ian Abramowitz	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Konstantin Genin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Christophe Paul	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Colin Austin	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Mirjan Lolja	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Paul Scocca	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
James Titus	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Ardolino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Derek Epstein	Sergeant	White male	Asian female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Hassan Gheith	Police Officer	White male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Fizgeralda Herndonsoto	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Anthony Lafemina	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Darren Melhado	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Edward Moore	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Thomas Reo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Cesar Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Herminio Baez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mourad Mourad	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Gennaro Russo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Tarangelo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Dress	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joel Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Julio Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Juan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joey Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jason Brown	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Bekim Kalicovic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Bekim Kalicovic	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joseph Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jason Reynolds	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Guy Gargano	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Nelson Nin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Paul Oconnor	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Kelly	Sergeant	White male	Refused female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Anis Nikocevic	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Brian Donoghue	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jack Dagnese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Andrew Fago	Detective	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jalin Bulding	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005

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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.