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
Joseph Tallarine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Joseph Tallarine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Thomas Moroney	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Megan Fortunato	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Dustin Genco	Detective	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Michael Lennihan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Barnett	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Bruce Ceparano	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Patrick Cherry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Johnny Orellana	Captain	Hispanic male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Londono	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
John Baumeister	Detective	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Joseph Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Miguel Donovan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
David Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Patrick Cherry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
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
Charles Hillery	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Danny Aguilar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Catherine Thomas	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Howard Zweben	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Francesco Cusimano	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Michael Lunetta	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joseph Signorile	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Fernando Caches	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Brian Mchenry	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Gergis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Terrence Howard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jason Barish	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Leon Batson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jasmin Nikocevic	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Scott Nuzzi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
William Seligson	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Richard Warner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Eisert	Detective	White male	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kristy Abbasciano	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Atara Ashford	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Roodly Demorcy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Adnan Radoncic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Craig Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
John Ferrara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Charles Hillery	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Dmitry Durets	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
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
Peter Rhatigan	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
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
Paul Palminteri	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Steven Weiss	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jonathan Hom	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jonathan Hom	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Shawn Phillips	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Shawn Phillips	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Christophe Crain	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Robert Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Gibbs	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Daniel Guida	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
David Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Timothy Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
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
Todd Hansen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Felix Gross	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
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
Richard Dixon	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
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
Rochael Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Robert Lotufo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
John Zorrilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
William Ditomaso	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Doyle	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown female	Unsubstantiated	2015
Miroslav Maric	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Richard Pignatelli	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007

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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.