The NYPD Files: Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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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Summaries of Serious Incidents

Between April 2014 and June 2020, the Civilian Complaint Review Board released over a dozen reports containing incident descriptions of a selection of its most serious police misconduct cases. We’ve matched these cases — handled by what is called the Administrative Prosecution Unit — to officer names using public records. Here is a partial list of the cases prosecuted by the CCRB and links to the board’s narrative version of what took place. The Police Department has not released its own descriptions. For more information on how this list was created as well as the frequent divergence between the police commissioner and CCRB on discipline in these cases, read our story.

Officer	CCRB Summary	Complaint	Rank at the Time of Incident	Incident Date
Raymond Higgins	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	January 2019
Ted Saintgerard	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	August 2018
Numael Amador	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2018
Bryan Hagmaier	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	December 2017
Richard Mezzatesta	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	December 2017
Leonardo Viera	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	October 2017
Derek Wilkins	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	June 2017
Jessica Romance	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	June 2017
Robert Morris	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	June 2017
Jean Alejandro	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	April 2017
Ronald Remo	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2017
Thomas Cropley	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2017
Jose Cintron	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	January 2017
Lawrence Thomas	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	December 2016
Rashied Mcintyre	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	December 2016
Darrien King	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	December 2016
Jose Moreno	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	October 2016
Salahudin Clark	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	October 2016
Andres Zambrano	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	September 2016
Jorge Flores	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	August 2016
David Mercado	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	August 2016
Fermin Bueno	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	August 2016
Christophe Crain	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	June 2016
Kevon Sample	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	March 2016
Mark Sinatra	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	February 2016
Nelson Reyes	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2016
Teddy Duroc	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2016
Jaipaul Ramdat	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2016
Dwayne Dawkins	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2016
Kevin Mockel	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	December 2015
Paul Kearon	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	October 2015
Christophe Alazraki	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	September 2015
John Mejia	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	August 2015
Mark Sinatra	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	August 2015
Christophe Davis	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	July 2015
Dennis Vargas	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	July 2015
Matthew Palmieri	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	May 2015
Ryan Scannell	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	March 2015
Daniel Song	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	March 2015
Cory Smith	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	March 2015
Michael Raso	See narrative →	See complaint →	Lieutenant	March 2015
Jason Greenberg	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	February 2015
Paul Gaglio	See narrative →	See complaint →	Lieutenant	February 2015
Evans Mazile	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	November 2014
Kenny Valladares	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	October 2014
Eric Ortiz	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	October 2014
Alan Rosenthal	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	October 2014
Thomas Gagliardi	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	September 2014
Mauvin Bute	See narrative →	See complaint →	Lieutenant	August 2014
Dustin Dimpflmaier	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	June 2014
Thomas Ramirez	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	June 2014
Brendan Heapes	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	May 2014
Christophe Devaney	See narrative →	See complaint →	Lieutenant	March 2014
Milton Sanchez	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	March 2014
Thomas Reo	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	February 2014
Salvatore Lopiccolo	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2014
Clyde Jasmin	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	December 2013
Stephen Hillmann	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	November 2013
James Conn	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	November 2013
Gerard Walker	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	November 2013
Alexis Aguirre	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	November 2013
Robert Morales	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	November 2013
Joseph Matzinger	See narrative →	See complaint →	Captain	September 2013
Ryan White	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	June 2013
Erik Depasquale	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	June 2013
Jose Deschamps	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	April 2013
Craig Victorino	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	April 2013
Wilding Aguasanta	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	March 2013
Wilfredo Ramos	See narrative →	See complaint →	Lieutenant	December 2012
Michael Calle	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	December 2012
Shkelzen Ahmetaj	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	October 2012
Keith Devine	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	October 2012
Dennis Friendly	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	September 2012
Gabriel Nacelewicz	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	September 2012
Trevor Baronette	See narrative →	See complaint →	Sergeant	September 2012
Alexander Bobo	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	September 2012
Darryl Chen	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	August 2012
Edward Mcclain	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	August 2012
Patrick Dooley	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	August 2012
Paul Polemeni	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	August 2012
James Picicci	See narrative →	See complaint →	Detective	August 2012
William Pierce	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	June 2012
Michael Mendoza	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	April 2012
Michael Corsello	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2012
Miriam Lasso	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2012
Frank Lupo	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	January 2012
Jeremy Pohl	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	December 2011
Robert Smith	See narrative →	See complaint →	Police Officer	December 2011

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.