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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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

Transit Bureau District 3

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
12
Complaints
18
Allegations
41

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
John Massari Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Black female, 18 years old Exonerated 2002
John Massari Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop Hispanic male Black female, 18 years old Exonerated 2002
John Massari Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Not available female Exonerated 2002
Peter Efthimiou Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Black female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Peter Efthimiou Sergeant Offensive Language: Race White male Black female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Peter Efthimiou Sergeant Discourtesy: Word White male Black female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2002
Peter Efthimiou Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest White male Black female, 27 years old Exonerated 2002
John Massari Police Officer Discourtesy: Demeanor/Tone Hispanic male Black female, 18 years old Exonerated 2002
John Massari Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Hispanic male Hispanic female, 41 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
John Massari Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question Hispanic male Black male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2012
John Massari Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Black male, 43 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Ralph Clement Sergeant Discourtesy: Gesture Asian male White female, 50 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2013
Laurent Mede Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Black male Black male, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Ralph Clement Sergeant Discourtesy: Word Asian male White female, 50 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2013
Ramon Maldonado Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other Hispanic male Black male, 49 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Ramon Maldonado Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Black male, 49 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Ramon Maldonado Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Hispanic male Black male, 49 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Christophe Esposito Sergeant Force: Physical Force White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Exonerated 2015
Laurent Mede Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question Black male Hispanic male, 41 years old Exonerated 2015
Laurent Mede Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other Black male Hispanic male, 41 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Kamil Choinski Police Officer Discourtesy: Action White male Black female, 45 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Kamil Choinski Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black female, 45 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Diana Hoyt Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White female Hispanic male, 17 years old Exonerated 2016
Diana Hoyt Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White female Hispanic male, 19 years old Exonerated 2016
Jean Alejandro Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jean Alejandro Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Jean Alejandro Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2017
Jean Alejandro Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
John Massari Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic male White male, 27 years old Exonerated 2017
Antonio Andrade Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop White male White male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Antonio Andrade Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search Of Recording Device White male Hispanic male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Antonio Andrade Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) White male White male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Antonio Andrade Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Interference With Recording White male Hispanic male, 47 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
Antonio Andrade Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Hispanic male, 47 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
Jacob Suarez Police Officer Discourtesy: Gesture Hispanic male Hispanic male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Jacob Suarez Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Hispanic male, 25 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2019
Jacob Suarez Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Hispanic male, 25 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2019
Jeffrey Mota Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Exonerated 2019
Jeffrey Mota Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Jeffrey Mota Police Officer Discourtesy: Action Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2019
Jacob Suarez Police Officer Discourtesy: Gesture Hispanic male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
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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