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Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
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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.
Officers with Complaints
51
Complaints
97
Allegations
236
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 |
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Kenneth Singletary | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | Black male | Black female, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Kenneth Singletary | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Black male | Black female, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Zoilo Encarnacion | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search | Hispanic male | Black male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Willy Yankovich | Police Officer | Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) | White male | Unknown male | Exonerated | 2007 |
Chad Mack | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | Black male | Black female, 61 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | White male | Unknown male | Exonerated | 2007 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | Hispanic male | Black male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Willy Yankovich | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | White male | Unknown male | Exonerated | 2007 |
Kenneth Singletary | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | Black male | Black female, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Willy Yankovich | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) | White male | Unknown male | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Barbie Lewis | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Question | Black female | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2008 |
Barbie Lewis | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | Black female | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2008 |
Christophe Devaney | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched | White male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Wilfredo Cruz | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) | Hispanic male | Black female, 59 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
Wilfredo Cruz | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Question | Hispanic male | Black female, 59 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Yves Dorisme | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Question | Black male | Black male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2008 |
John Slavinsky | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Chad Mack | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Black male | Unknown male | Exonerated | 2008 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 61 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Kenneth Singletary | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Question | Black male | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Chad Mack | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Black male | Unknown male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Chad Mack | Police Officer | Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) | Black male | Unknown male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) | Hispanic male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Force: Gun Pointed | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Jasmine Velez | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Question | Hispanic female | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
Jasmine Velez | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons | Hispanic female | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
John Slavinsky | Police Officer | Force: Pepper Spray | White male | Black male, 62 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
John Slavinsky | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2009 |
John Slavinsky | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Arrest | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2009 |
John Slavinsky | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Frisk | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Leslie Anderson | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment | Hispanic female | Black female, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
Chad Mack | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Black male | Black male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Gun Drawn | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2011 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Audrey Wise | Sergeant | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment | Black female | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Chad Mack | Police Officer | Offensive Language: Race | Black male | Black male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Michael Calle | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Frisk | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
John Slavinsky | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | White male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Michael Demonda | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Dustin Edwards | Sergeant | Discourtesy: Word | Black male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Barbara Fischer | Lieutenant | Discourtesy: Word | White female | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Barbara Fischer | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged | White female | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Barbara Fischer | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched | White female | Not available | Exonerated | 2012 |
Trevor Barton | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Melissa Napoli | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | White female | Hispanic female, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Michael Demonda | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Michael Calle | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Michael Demonda | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Michael Demonda | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Michael Calle | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Michael Calle | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Black male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
Sean Pallone | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Joseph Matzinger | Captain | Force: Pepper Spray | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Sean Pallone | Police Officer | Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object | White male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Dustin Edwards | Sergeant | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Black male | Black male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Dustin Edwards | Sergeant | Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched | Black male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Dustin Edwards | Sergeant | Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched | Black male | Not available | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Barbara Fischer | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Stop | White female | Black male, 13 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Barbara Fischer | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest | White female | Black male, 13 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Barbara Fischer | Lieutenant | Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) | White female | Black male, 13 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Barbie Lewis | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Black female | Black male, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Barbie Lewis | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Gun Drawn | Black female | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Joseph Matzinger | Captain | Force: Physical Force | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Jonathan Trossi | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | Asian male | Black male, 14 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Jonathan Trossi | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Other | Asian male | Black male, 14 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Jonathan Trossi | Police Officer | Offensive Language: Race | Asian male | Black male, 14 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Kellan Oneill | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Other | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Dustin Edwards | Sergeant | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop | Black male | Black male | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Justin Jamison | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Retaliatory Summons | Hispanic male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Wilson Verdesoto | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search | Hispanic male | Black male | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Justin Jamison | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Other | Hispanic male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | Hispanic male | Other Race female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2014 |
Alan Rosenthal | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Andy Cruz | Police Officer | Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) | Hispanic male | Other Race female, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Alan Rosenthal | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Other | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Wilson Verdesoto | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop | Hispanic male | Black male | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Dustin Edwards | Sergeant | Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search | Black male | Black male | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Wilson Verdesoto | Detective | Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Wilson Verdesoto | Detective | Discourtesy: Word | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Robert Obrien | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched | White male | Not available | Exonerated | 2015 |
Barbara Miguel | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | White female | Black female, 25 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Barbara Miguel | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | White female | Black female, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Barbara Miguel | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number | White female | Black female, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Wilson Verdesoto | Detective | Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Kellan Oneill | Police Officer | Offensive Language: Gender | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Kellan Oneill | Police Officer | Force: Physical Force | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Kellan Oneill | Police Officer | Discourtesy: Word | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Robert Obrien | Police Officer | Abuse of Authority: Stop | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
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.
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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.