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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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

13th Precinct

This page contains allegations that were filed against officers who were serving at this precinct or in this unit at the time an incident is alleged to have occured. A complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.

Officers with Complaints
19
Complaints
33
Allegations
65

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 Allegation Officer Details Complainant Details CCRB Conclusion Year Received
Norman Grandstaff Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search White male White male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Norman Grandstaff Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male White male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Norman Grandstaff Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop White male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2003
Norman Grandstaff Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2003
Norman Grandstaff Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2003
Stuart Wohl Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic female, 47 years old Exonerated 2004
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Hispanic male Other Race female, 56 years old Exonerated 2004
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Hispanic male Other Race female, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Timothy Brown Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2005
Timothy Brown Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2005
Patrick Donnelly Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint White male Unknown male, 38 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2006
Jason Valentino Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 49 years old Exonerated 2006
Jason Valentino Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Michael Eschmann Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Michael Eschmann Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Michael Eschmann Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Patrick Donnelly Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Exonerated 2007
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Exonerated 2007
Richard Romance Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Exonerated 2007
Richard Romance Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Michael Eschmann Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Arthur Golfphin Police Officer Force: Physical Force Black male Other Race male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Hispanic male Hispanic male, 46 years old Exonerated 2008
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property Hispanic male Hispanic male, 46 years old Exonerated 2008
Arthur Golfphin Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons Black male Other Race male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Michael Eschmann Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 57 years old Exonerated 2008
Jason Valentino Police Officer Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object White male Hispanic male, 43 years old Exonerated 2008
Arthur Golfphin Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search Black male Other Race male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Matthew Buonaspina Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 44 years old Exonerated 2008
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic male Black male, 47 years old Exonerated 2009
Michael Fox Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male White male, 42 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2009
Michael Fox Police Officer Offensive Language: Sexual Orientation White male White male, 42 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2009
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search Hispanic male Black male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
John Dziedzic Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2010
Matthew Buonaspina Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2010
Matthew Buonaspina Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 42 years old Exonerated 2010
Matthew Buonaspina Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
John Dziedzic Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male White male, 35 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Matthew Buonaspina Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Matthew Buonaspina Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2012
Jason Valentino Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male White male, 35 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Arthur Golfphin Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other Black male Black male, 61 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Michael Lazarou Sergeant Force: Nonlethal Restraining Device White male White male, 35 years old Exonerated 2015
Arthur Golfphin Police Officer Offensive Language: Ethnicity Black male Black male, 61 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Bekim Kalicovic Lieutenant Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Bekim Kalicovic Lieutenant Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Exonerated 2016
Neils Veras Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) Hispanic male Hispanic female, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Neils Veras Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Hispanic male Hispanic female, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Thomas Manning Police Officer Force: Vehicle White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2016
Neils Veras Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property Hispanic male Hispanic female, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Jocelyn Peralta Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Other Hispanic female Other Race female, 53 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Jocelyn Peralta Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged Hispanic female Other Race female, 53 years old Exonerated 2017
Michael Eschmann Police Officer Force: Restricted Breathing White male White male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Eschmann Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male White male, 39 years old Exonerated 2017
Michael Eschmann Police Officer Force: Chokehold White male White male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Hispanic male Hispanic male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Hispanic male, 34 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Jocelyn Peralta Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2017
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) Hispanic male Hispanic male, 34 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Arthur Golfphin Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons Black male Other Race male, 53 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Leonardo Nimo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Hispanic male Hispanic male, 34 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Todd Craven Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 42 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Todd Craven Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male White male, 24 years old Exonerated 2019
Elena Stojanovski Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Forcible Removal To Hospital Hispanic female White male, 24 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 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.
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