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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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

23rd 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
62
Complaints
116
Allegations
326

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
Paul Gaglio Lieutenant Force: Chokehold White male Hispanic female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Paul Gaglio Lieutenant Discourtesy: Word White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Daniel Lampert Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Lynn Ruger Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Arrest White female Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Kristy Abbasciano Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White female Hispanic male, 16 years old Exonerated 2008
Ramiro Ruiz Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Ramiro Ruiz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Hispanic male Hispanic female, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Ramiro Ruiz Police Officer Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object Hispanic male Hispanic male, 20 years old Exonerated 2008
Milly Matos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Hispanic female Black female, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Lynn Ruger Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop White female Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2008
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Hispanic male Black male, 13 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic male Black male, 13 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Hispanic male Black male, 13 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Lynn Ruger Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White female Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Lynn Ruger Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White female Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Lynn Ruger Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White female Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2008
Milly Matos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Hispanic female Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Milly Matos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other Hispanic female Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Milly Matos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Hispanic female Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Milly Matos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic female Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Hispanic male Black female, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Hispanic male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Summons Hispanic male Black female, 29 years old Exonerated 2008
Lynn Ruger Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White female Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2008
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons Hispanic male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Terrell Anderson Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Black male Black male, 37 years old Exonerated 2007
Rajesh Lalwani Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched Asian male Not available Exonerated 2007
Kristy Abbasciano Police Officer Offensive Language: Race White female Black female, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Christophe Greiner Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2007
Christophe Greiner Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2007
Christophe Greiner Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Christophe Greiner Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2007
Christophe Greiner Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Hispanic male Black male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic male Black male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Pedro Rios Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Terrell Anderson Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Black male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Pedro Rios Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Hispanic male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Buxton Pryor Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 46 years old Exonerated 2007
Paul Gaglio Lieutenant Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Paul Gaglio Lieutenant Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2007
Buxton Pryor Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Charles Brown Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment Black male White male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Brian Clements Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Brian Clements Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Brian Clements Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Joseph Curley Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2007
Joseph Curley Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Joseph Curley Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Lynn Ruger Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White female Hispanic female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Buxton Pryor Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Hispanic female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Terrell Anderson Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Black male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Lynn Ruger Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest White female Hispanic female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Kelvin Puello Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop Hispanic male Hispanic female, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Edward Caban Captain Abuse of Authority: Question Hispanic male Black male, 60 years old Exonerated 2006
Kristy Abbasciano Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White female Black male, 13 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Kristy Abbasciano Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White female Black female, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Kelvin Puello Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Hispanic male, 52 years old Exonerated 2006
Kristy Abbasciano Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop White female Black male, 13 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Nela Gomez Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Gun Drawn Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2006
Nela Gomez Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Hispanic female Hispanic female, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Kelvin Puello Police Officer Force: Gun Pointed Hispanic male Hispanic female, 37 years old Exonerated 2006
Christophe Greiner Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Christophe Greiner Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Kelvin Puello Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Hispanic male Hispanic female, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Christophe Greiner Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Christophe Greiner Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Buxton Pryor Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black female, 31 years old Exonerated 2006
Buxton Pryor Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black female, 31 years old Exonerated 2006
Kelvin Puello Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search Hispanic male Hispanic female, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Paul Gaglio Lieutenant Offensive Language: Sexual Orientation White male Unknown male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Paul Gaglio Lieutenant Force: Physical Force White male Unknown male, 19 years old Exonerated 2006
Edward Caban Captain Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons Hispanic male Black male, 60 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Randy Rose Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Black male, 54 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Joseph Curley Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Christophe Greiner Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property White male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Christophe Bastos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop Hispanic male Black male, 19 years old Exonerated 2005
Victor Robalino Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop Hispanic male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2005
Joseph Curley Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
David Gonzalez Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male White , 34 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2005
David Gonzalez Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male White male, 42 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2005
Brian Clements Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Christophe Bastos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Christophe Bastos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Brian Clements Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Exonerated 2004
Brian Clements Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest White male Hispanic female, 23 years old Exonerated 2004
Brian Clements Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Arrest White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Exonerated 2004
Brian Clements Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic female, 23 years old Exonerated 2004
Brian Clements Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop White male Black male, 14 years old Exonerated 2004
Christophe Bastos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Christophe Bastos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Christophe Bastos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Joseph Curley Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2004
Joseph Curley Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Black female, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Joseph Curley Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 37 years old Exonerated 2004
Christophe Bastos Police Officer Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Christophe Bastos Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Christophe Bastos Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Hispanic male Hispanic male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
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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