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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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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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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.
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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 | Allegation | Officer Details | Complainant Details | CCRB Conclusion | Year Received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sajit Tomy | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Asian male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Sajit Tomy | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Asian male | Black male | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Sajit Tomy | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Asian male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Shield Number | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Shield Number | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Offensive Language: Race | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Offensive Language: Race | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Hispanic male | Not available male | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Hispanic male | Refused male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2018 |
| Brian Raghoenathsingh | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Electronic Device Information Deletion | Asian male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Brian Raghoenathsingh | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name | Asian male | Not available female, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Brian Raghoenathsingh | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Shield Number | Asian male | Not available female, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Brian Raghoenathsingh | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Interference With Recording | Asian male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Brian Raghoenathsingh | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Search Of Recording Device | Asian male | Other Race male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
| Flavio Rodriguez | Lieutenant | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 17 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
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.