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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
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
Willy Yankovich Police Officer White male Black female, 31 years old Exonerated 2004
Martin Langbein Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Robert Nugent Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Alex Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Kevin Martin Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2016
John Fogelman Detective White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Andrew Hatki Lieutenant White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Anthony Salato Police Officer White male Black female, 17 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Emily Rivera Police Officer Hispanic female White female, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Jose Caban Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 68 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Michael Whiteman Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
John Sears Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Alberto Angilletta Detective White male Hispanic male, 46 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Dion Edwards Police Officer Black male Black male, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Forrest Hirsch Sergeant White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Ralph Pacheco Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
William Ditomaso Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Ted Saintgerard Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2018
Scott Berger Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 31 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Edgar Clases Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Ryan Olsen Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
Jose Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 52 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Reginald Minott Police Officer Black male Not available male Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
Shawn Phillips Police Officer White male Unknown male, 23 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Mohammed Rios Detective Hispanic male Black male Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Anthony Donato Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2018
Jimmy Bonilla Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 52 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Jonathan Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Starlin Dominguez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 36 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2016
German Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 14 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Declan Ludington Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2013
John Gergis Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Brian Mchenry Police Officer White male Not available male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Joseph Bermudez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Fernando Caches Police Officer White male Asian male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Peter Rhatigan Police Officer White male Black female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Joseph Signorile Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
John Baumeister Detective White male Black female, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Michael Lunetta Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Francesco Cusimano Police Officer White male Other Race male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
John Londono Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 14 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Howard Zweben Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
John Zorrilla Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Dmitry Durets Police Officer White male Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2000
Charles Hillery Police Officer Black male Black female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Catherine Thomas Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
William Ditomaso Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Jean Louis Police Officer Black male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Robert Bracero Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Paul Brauer Police Officer White male Black female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Erek Powers Sergeant Black male Black male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
James Haviland Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Miller Sergeant White male Unknown male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Johnny Orellana Captain Hispanic male Black female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Patrick Smith Police Officer American Indian male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Torrel Rowesingleton Police Officer Black male Black female, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Torrel Rowesingleton Police Officer Black male Black male, 60 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Nicholas Horun Police Officer White male Black male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Abraham Badillo Sergeant Hispanic male White male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Brett Strauss Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
David Leonardi Sergeant White male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Rochael Vasquez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Richard Dixon Detective Black male Hispanic male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Craig Wright Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Adnan Radoncic Sergeant White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Felix Gross Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Roodly Demorcy Police Officer Black male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Charles Hillery Police Officer Black male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Atara Ashford Sergeant Hispanic female Black female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Todd Hansen Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Kristy Abbasciano Police Officer White female Black female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
James Eisert Detective White male Black female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Alexander Bobo Police Officer Black male Black female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Anthony Salato Police Officer White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Joseph Stynes Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
John Ferrara Sergeant White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Richard Ernyey Police Officer White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Richard Ernyey Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Hugh Herbert Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Frank Galati Detective White male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Pete Massa Sergeant White male Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Philip Picciano Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Timothy Rizzo Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
John Todaro Sergeant White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Michael Cronin Sergeant White male Black female, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Richard Warner Police Officer White male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Charles Buglione Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Charles Buglione Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Charles Buglione Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Daniel Guida Sergeant White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Danny Hernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Michael Butler Police Officer White male Black male, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
David Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Robert Lotufo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Kevin Martin Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Michael Gibbs Police Officer White male Black female, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Michael Doyle Lieutenant White male Unknown female Unsubstantiated 2015
Miroslav Maric Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Scott Nuzzi Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
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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.
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