Offensive Language: SEXUAL ORIENTATION - The NYPD Files

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Offensive Language: Sexual Orientation

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.

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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
Shawn Wilkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2000
Franklin Bohr	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Carlos Silva	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Keith Walker	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Mark Cozzi	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2003
Christophe Klein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Patrick Cherry	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Miguel Marte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Michael Moccaldi	Police Officer	White male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Kevin Matthews	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Gregory Lomangino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Corey Gresko	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Paul Gaglio	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Brian Depalo	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jose Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Amaury Soriano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Nicholas Albano	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Thornton Booker	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Fox	Police Officer	White male	White male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2009
Philip Picciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Anthony Botta	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edward Barry	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Felix Espinal	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Roy Abounaoum	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Vazquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Moroni	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2011
German Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Hariton Marachilian	Police Officer	White male	Asian female, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ramon Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Orlando Phillip	Police Officer	Black male	White male	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Avidan Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Liam Ohara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joel Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lawrence Bosch	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Daniel Castaldo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Farid Aliyev	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Garry Lamour	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Diana Pichardo	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Sergio Delamota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Dejesus	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Breslin	Detective	White male	White male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Vincent Dima	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jorge Tavarez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alexis Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jonathan Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Tongzhong Zhang	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Mike Civil	Detective	Black male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Colin Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	White male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Malachy Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Patrick Burnett	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Tyler Ehrlein	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Thomas Morton	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Konti Markvukaj	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Dana Ladson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Juan Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Thomas Morton	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2016
Connor Lichte	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Gregory Kennedy	Detective	Black male	Black female, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Eddy Soriano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Carlos Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
German Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Shmuel Tenenbaum	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Bryant Pineda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Gabriel Cuevas	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Saquoi Harris	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Anthony Perlmutter	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Ahmed Abdalla	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Miguel Donovan	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Sandra Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019

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.