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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Daniel Ticali Detective American Indian male Other Race male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Patrick Smith Police Officer American Indian male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Barry Stokes Police Officer American Indian male Black female, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Jonathan Hom Sergeant Asian male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jonathan Hom Sergeant Asian male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jonathan Trossi Police Officer Asian male Black male, 14 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Dwight Powell Police Officer Black male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Dennis Friendly Detective Black male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Torrel Rowesingleton Police Officer Black male Black female, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Dennis Friendly Detective Black male Black female, 59 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Kevon Sample Lieutenant Black male Black male, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Torrel Rowesingleton Police Officer Black male Black male, 60 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Diery Louis Police Officer Black male Black female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Christian Cayenne Police Officer Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Charles Hillery Police Officer Black male Black female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Melvin Moultrie Sergeant Black male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Richard Dixon Detective Black male Hispanic male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Gregory Kennedy Police Officer Black male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Mourad Mourad Police Officer Black male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Alexander Bobo Police Officer Black male Black female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Jean Louis Police Officer Black male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Black female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Malachi Mckenith Police Officer Black male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Jason Reynolds Police Officer Black male White male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Terrence Howard Police Officer Black male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Johnny Lawrence Police Officer Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Charles Hillery Police Officer Black male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Leon Batson Police Officer Black male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Christian Cayenne Police Officer Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Erek Powers Sergeant Black male Black male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Willie Johnson Detective Black male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Robert Mciver Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Chad Mack Police Officer Black male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Delores Mitchell Police Officer Black female Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Michael White Sergeant Black male Black female, 59 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Devin Long Police Officer Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Reginald Minott Police Officer Black male Not available male Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
Craig Wright Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Darren Melhado Police Officer Black male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Dion Edwards Police Officer Black male Black male, 44 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Colin Austin Police Officer Black male Black female, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Ronald Hobson Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Christian Cayenne Police Officer Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Ted Saintgerard Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2018
Willie Johnson Detective Black male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Devin Long Police Officer Black male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Roodly Demorcy Police Officer Black male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Isaac Branch Police Officer Black male Hispanic female, 101 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Carlos Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jimmy Bonilla Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 52 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Edwin Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Nicholas Soto Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Ralph Pacheco Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Johnny Orellana Captain Hispanic male Black female, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Matthew Pena Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jalin Bulding Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
John Londono Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male, 14 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Nelson Nin Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Joseph Bermudez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Abraham Badillo Sergeant Hispanic male White male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Michelle Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Robert Bracero Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Catherine Thomas Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
John Zorrilla Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
William Ditomaso Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2003
Robert Lotufo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Edgar Clases Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Erick Larios Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Juan Santiago Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Danny Hernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Charles Buglione Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Felix Gross Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Julio Ramos Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Joey Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Atara Ashford Sergeant Hispanic female Black female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Philip Picciano Sergeant Hispanic male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Alex Torres Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Fizgeralda Herndonsoto Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Jonathan Martinez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Catherine Perez Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joel Reyes Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joseph Fernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2010
Cesar Reyes Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Nerys Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Herminio Baez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Nerys Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Charles Buglione Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Flavio Rodriguez Lieutenant Hispanic male Other Race male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Charles Buglione Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
David Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Ernest Morales Lieutenant Hispanic male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Rochael Vasquez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
German Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 14 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Flavio Rodriguez Lieutenant Hispanic male Other Race male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Lorraine Bowden Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Jerry Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
William Ditomaso Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Gustavo Medina Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
David Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
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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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