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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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

120th 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
89
Complaints
196
Allegations
514

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
Dominick Raso Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male White female, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Dominick Raso Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male White male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Tarulli Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Tarulli Police Officer Force: Pepper Spray White male Black male, 51 years old Exonerated 2011
Jason Greenberg Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest White male Hispanic male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jason Greenberg Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Hispanic male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Martin Costello Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Martin Costello Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Eric Pena Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Asian male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Steven Lopez Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Min Kim Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Asian male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Eric Pena Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop Asian male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Eric Pena Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Asian male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Christophe Hebert Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop White male Black male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Christophe Hebert Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White male Black male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Christophe Hebert Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Black male, 52 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Christophe Hebert Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Christophe Hebert Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Bruce Ceparano Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2012
Michael Alfieri Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Alfieri Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Michael Alfieri Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Omar Elsayed Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2012
Omar Elsayed Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Frank Muirhead Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Unknown male, 16 years old Exonerated 2012
Frank Muirhead Police Officer Force: Gun Pointed White male Black female, 35 years old Exonerated 2012
Bruce Ceparano Sergeant Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Bruce Ceparano Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White male Black male, 34 years old Exonerated 2012
Bruce Ceparano Sergeant Offensive Language: Race White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Bruce Ceparano Sergeant Force: Physical Force White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2012
Bruce Ceparano Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2012
Bruce Ceparano Sergeant Discourtesy: Word White male White male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Vincenzo Trabolse Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Summons White male Black female, 28 years old Exonerated 2012
Erica Macauda Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic female Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question White male Hispanic male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop White male Hispanic male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Hispanic male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Erica Macauda Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic female Black female, 48 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Erica Macauda Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2012
Frank Lupo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop White male Black male, 54 years old Exonerated 2012
Frank Lupo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White male Black male, 54 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Frank Lupo Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 54 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Megan Fortunato Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White female Black female, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Megan Fortunato Police Officer Offensive Language: Race White female Black female, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Megan Fortunato Police Officer Force: Handcuffs Too Tight White female Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Ignazio Conca Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Ignazio Conca Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Ignazio Conca Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Ignazio Conca Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2012
James Trapasso Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 37 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Eric Pena Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Asian male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2012
Michael Tarulli Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Hispanic male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Tarulli Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 38 years old Exonerated 2012
Brendan Heapes Sergeant Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2012
Min Kim Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search Asian male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Steven Lopez Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Hispanic male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Steven Lopez Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Hispanic male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Anthony Lamberti Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male White male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Anthony Lamberti Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male White male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christian Cataldo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christian Cataldo Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 53 years old Exonerated 2012
Christian Cataldo Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Hispanic male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christian Cataldo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male White male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christian Cataldo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male White male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christian Cataldo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male White male, 49 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Philip Vaccarino Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Jonathan Glazer Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2012
Richard Ortiz Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Richard Ortiz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic male Black male, 49 years old Exonerated 2012
Mario Belluomo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint White male Black female, 48 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Bekim Kalicovic Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint White male Black male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Philip Vaccarino Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Frank Desiderato Police Officer Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object White male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Frank Desiderato Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Frank Desiderato Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2013
Frank Desiderato Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Frank Desiderato Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Unknown male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
James Trapasso Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
James Trapasso Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2013
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Refused male, 27 years old Exonerated 2013
Stephen Dimassa Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Andrew Lipari Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Other Race male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Andrew Lipari Police Officer Force: Other Blunt Instrument As A Club White male Other Race male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Andrew Lipari Police Officer Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object White male Other Race male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Anthony Cimmino Police Officer Discourtesy: Action White male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Anthony Cimmino Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Anthony Cimmino Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Anthony Cimmino Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged White male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Anthony Cimmino Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other White male Hispanic male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Anthony Cimmino Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 44 years old Exonerated 2013
Anthony Cimmino Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Hispanic female, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Brian Schulman Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged White male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Brian Schulman Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Brian Schulman Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 16 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2013
Dhanan Saminath Sergeant Force: Physical Force Asian male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2013
Dhanan Saminath Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Stop Asian male Black male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Michael Tarulli Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Unknown male, 57 years old Exonerated 2013
Brian Schulman Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male White female, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Megan Fortunato Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment White female Black male, 52 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
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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