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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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 33

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
14
Complaints
26
Allegations
58

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
Victor Appel Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black female, 19 years old Exonerated 2001
Victor Appel Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black female, 19 years old Exonerated 2001
Martin Langbein Police Officer Offensive Language: Race White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Martin Langbein Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 16 years old Unsubstantiated 2003
Victor Appel Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2004
Victor Appel Police Officer Force: Pepper Spray White male Not available male Exonerated 2004
Victor Appel Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop White male Hispanic male, 17 years old Exonerated 2004
Victor Appel Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Not available male Exonerated 2004
Jemal Gungor Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2004
Thomas Passolo Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Black female, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Thomas Passolo Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black female, 15 years old Exonerated 2005
Victor Appel Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black female, 15 years old Exonerated 2005
Raphael Sylvestre Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Black male Black female, 43 years old Exonerated 2005
Victor Appel Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Unknown female, 27 years old Exonerated 2006
Cesar Garcia Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Cesar Garcia Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Cesar Garcia Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Cesar Garcia Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Milton Diaz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Milton Diaz Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Milton Diaz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Milton Diaz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Milton Diaz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Other Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Victor Appel Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop White male Unknown female, 27 years old Exonerated 2006
Vicnia Liz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Stop Hispanic female Unknown male Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Vicnia Liz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Hispanic female Unknown male Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Victor Appel Police Officer Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) White male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Victor Appel Police Officer Force: Physical Force White male Black male, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Vicnia Liz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged Hispanic female Unknown male Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Vicnia Liz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person) Hispanic female Unknown male Exonerated 2007
Vicnia Liz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Question Hispanic female Unknown male Exonerated 2007
Milton Diaz Police Officer Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) Hispanic male Black male, 15 years old Exonerated 2008
Jason Tejada Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Black female, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2009
Jason Tejada Police Officer Force: Physical Force Hispanic male Black female, 18 years old Exonerated 2009
Milton Diaz Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Milton Diaz Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Anthony Panetta Sergeant Force: Physical Force White male White male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Michael Ustick Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male Hispanic female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Michael Ustick Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Obtain Medical Treatment White male Hispanic male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Michael Ustick Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Michael Ustick Police Officer Discourtesy: Word White male White male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2013
Anthony Panetta Sergeant Abuse of Authority: Stop White male Hispanic female, 23 years old Exonerated 2013
Evans Mazile Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) Black male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Latoya Paradise Police Officer Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) Black female Hispanic male, 17 years old Exonerated 2014
Latoya Paradise Police Officer Force: Physical Force Black female Hispanic male, 17 years old Exonerated 2014
Evans Mazile Police Officer Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) Black male Black male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Evans Mazile Police Officer Force: Pepper Spray Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Evans Mazile Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Black male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Evans Mazile Police Officer Force: Physical Force Black male Black male, 46 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Latoya Paradise Police Officer Force: Other Blunt Instrument As A Club Black female Black female, 15 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Latoya Paradise Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Black female Black female, 15 years old Unsubstantiated 2015
Jason Tejada Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Hispanic male White male, 24 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Jason Tejada Police Officer Discourtesy: Word Hispanic male White male, 24 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Raphael Sylvestre Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Interference With Recording Black male Unknown female, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Raphael Sylvestre Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) Black male Black male, 17 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Daniel Pietranico Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Summons White male Hispanic male, 23 years old Exonerated 2017
Raphael Sylvestre Police Officer Force: Physical Force Black male Black male, 17 years old Exonerated 2017
Daniel Pietranico Police Officer Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number White male Hispanic male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
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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