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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
Thomas Schick	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2000
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	Hispanic male	White male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Sean Mccarthy	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2001
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2001
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2001
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2001
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop	Hispanic male	White male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2001
Joseph Bonner	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Raymond Jansen	Lieutenant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2003
Christophe Wit	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons	White male	White male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2003
Christophe Wit	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	White male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Christophe Wit	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	White male	Black female	Unsubstantiated	2003
Raymond Jansen	Lieutenant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Raymond Jansen	Lieutenant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2003
Raymond Jansen	Lieutenant	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Mark Cozzi	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment	White male	Unknown male	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Mark Cozzi	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2003
Mark Cozzi	Police Officer	Offensive Language: Sexual Orientation	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2003
Thomas Schick	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black female, 46 years old	Exonerated	2003
Joseph Bonner	Police Officer	Force: Handcuffs Too Tight	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Eric Robinson	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	White male	Unknown male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Thomas Schick	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Thomas Schick	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Action	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Thomas Schick	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2004
Thomas Koerner	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Thomas Koerner	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Eric Robinson	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Arrest	White male	Unknown male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Force: Pepper Spray	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Kenneth Ayala	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Arrest	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Thomas Koerner	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2004
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2004
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Eric Robinson	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Thomas Koerner	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Offensive Language: Other	White male	Black male, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Black male, 63 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2005
Joseph Seminara	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
Joseph Seminara	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property	White male	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Lars Frantzen	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Joseph Seminara	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2005
Joseph Seminara	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Mahmoud Attia	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Cornelius Oshea	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kenneth Rosello	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2007
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	White male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2007
Hugh Herbert	Police Officer	Force: Pepper Spray	White male	Black female, 37 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Guzzino	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Guzzino	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Guzzino	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Lars Frantzen	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	White female, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Lars Frantzen	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	White female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Guzzino	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Alberto Ortiz	Police Officer	Force: Vehicle	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Alberto Ortiz	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Action	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Alberto Ortiz	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jason Chappina	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons	White male	White female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Raymond Mccann	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	Not available male	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Brian Shevitz	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Joseph Bonner	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	White male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2009
Joseph Bonner	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2009
Brian Shevitz	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Jason Chappina	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jason Chappina	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Eric Perez	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Loeffel	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Martin Maloney	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Action	White male	Not available	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2010
Richard Young	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Vincent Grego	Lieutenant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Travis Duke	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2012
Travis Duke	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Travis Duke	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Lydell Boyd	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	Black male	White female, 29 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Joseph Bonner	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Lydell Boyd	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	Black male	Hispanic female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Lauren Orourke	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White female	Black female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Johnanthon Alexander	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2014
Philip Depasquale	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Danamarie Alessio	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White female	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Danamarie Alessio	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White female	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Joseph Bonner	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	White male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Joseph Bonner	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Joseph Bonner	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Hispanic female, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
James Hall	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Other	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Hall	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
James Hall	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
James Hall	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Hariton Marachilian	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Exonerated	2015
Kevin Shea	Lieutenant	Discourtesy: Action	White male	White male, 77 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Hariton Marachilian	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Exonerated	2015
Hariton Marachilian	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Robert Backiel	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Other	White male	Black female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015

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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.