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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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

Patrol Borough Brooklyn North

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
97
Complaints
125
Allegations
304

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
Anthony Gulotta Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Other White male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2013
Otto Pereira Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search Hispanic male Black male, 37 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Kristo Cevi Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Kristo Cevi Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Joseph Degen Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Kevon Sample Sergeant Offensive Language: Gender Black male Black female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Mark Finelli Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question White male Black male, 45 years old Exonerated 2013
Julio Ramos Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Black male, 39 years old Exonerated 2013
Paul Kogan Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 35 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Paul Kogan Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Paul Kogan Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question White male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Paul Kogan Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2013
Carlos Herrera Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2013
Nelson Reyes Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Nelson Reyes Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Sean Downes Sergeant Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Umar Khitab Police Officer Force: Physical Force Asian male Unknown male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Umar Khitab Police Officer Force: Physical Force Asian male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Umar Khitab Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment Asian male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Umar Khitab Police Officer Force: Chokehold Asian male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Umar Khitab Police Officer Force: Other Blunt Instrument As A Club Asian male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Umar Khitab Police Officer Force: Other Asian male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Umar Khitab Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Asian male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Sean Oconnor Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Sean Oconnor Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 17 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2013
Miles Holman Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Black male Black female, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Kevon Sample Sergeant Discourtesy: Word Black male Black female, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Alejandro Valderrama Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2013
Alejandro Valderrama Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Summons Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2013
Frank Recca Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 55 years old Exonerated 2012
Frank Recca Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 55 years old Exonerated 2012
Timothy Rogers Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Black male, 57 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Timothy Rogers Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 57 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Timothy Rogers Sergeant Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 57 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Stanley Mateo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2012
John Diaz Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Hispanic male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Stanley Mateo Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joseph Hayward Lieutenant Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 15 years old Exonerated 2012
Burt Antoine Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) Black male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joseph Nicosia Police Officer Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object White male Hispanic male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Kevin Mccarthy Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Unknown male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Burt Antoine Sergeant Force: Physical Force Black male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Burt Antoine Sergeant Force: Gun Pointed Black male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2012
Burt Antoine Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Stop Black male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
William Schumacher Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Todd Hansen Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Todd Hansen Police Officer Offensive Language: Race White male Hispanic male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Todd Hansen Police Officer Force: Gun Pointed White male Hispanic male, 41 years old Exonerated 2012
Angel Vasquez Sergeant Force: Gun Pointed Hispanic male Black female, 36 years old Exonerated 2012
Todd Hansen Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Todd Hansen Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
William Schumacher Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Hassan Raza Police Officer Force: Gun Pointed Asian male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joseph Hayward Lieutenant Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) White male White male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Rafael Figueroa Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Rafael Figueroa Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk Hispanic male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Christophe Beihl Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 40 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Dimambro Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Hispanic male, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Todd Hansen Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joseph Hayward Lieutenant Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Felix Cortez Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged Hispanic male Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Anthony Lafemina Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Anthony Lafemina Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Anthony Lafemina Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Anthony Lafemina Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Anthony Lafemina Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) White male Hispanic male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Anthony Lafemina Police Officer Offensive Language: Race White male Hispanic male, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Anthony Lafemina Police Officer Force: Gun Pointed White male Hispanic male, 41 years old Exonerated 2012
Todd Hansen Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joseph Hayward Lieutenant Force: Pepper Spray White male Hispanic male, 15 years old Exonerated 2012
Erica Rivera Police Officer Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) Hispanic female Black female, 15 years old Exonerated 2012
Kevin Morgan Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Burt Antoine Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Vitaliy Zelikov Sergeant Discourtesy: Word White male Black female, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Sean Downes Sergeant Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Sean Downes Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White male Black male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Sean Downes Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 53 years old Exonerated 2012
Sean Downes Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest White male Black male, 53 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joseph Nicosia Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Hispanic male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
William Schumacher Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Joseph Hayward Lieutenant Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Joseph Nicosia Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Burt Antoine Sergeant Discourtesy: Word Black male Black male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Joseph Degen Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Felix Cortez Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Mark Brinadze Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Mark Brinadze Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Mark Brinadze Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Black male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Hansson Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search White male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2012
Arsenio Berrios Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Joseph Hayward Lieutenant Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Juan Moreno Sergeant Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Hispanic female, 47 years old Exonerated 2012
Michael Hansson Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Kevin Mccarthy Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Frisk White male Unknown male, 46 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Ryan Olsen Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Juan Moreno Sergeant Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Hispanic female, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
Kevin Beslity Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Unknown male, 46 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Frank Recca Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest White male Black male, 55 years old Exonerated 2012
Angel Vasquez Sergeant Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Black female, 36 years old Exonerated 2012
Ryan Olsen Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
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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