Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

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Kenneth Douglas
Police Officer, Manhattan Court Section, Badge #1703
Black male
These are the Civilian Complaint Review Board’s findings regarding this NYPD officer. This page only includes allegations against this person for which the CCRB has completed its investigation. A complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.
Units served in
102nd Precinct, 90th Precinct, 77th Precinct
Total Complaints
9
Total Allegations
25
Substantiated Allegations
4

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.

Complaint received in December 2014

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Force: Pepper Spray Hispanic male, 41 years old Police Officer Exonerated

Complaint received in November 2013

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) Other Race male, 19 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated
Force: Physical Force Unknown female, 17 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated
Force: Hit Against Inanimate Object Other Race male, 19 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated
Discourtesy: Word Other Race male, 19 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated
Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number Refused female, 21 years old Police Officer Substantiated (Command Discipline)
Force: Physical Force Other Race male, 19 years old Police Officer Substantiated (Command Discipline)

Complaint received in August 2013

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Force: Chokehold Asian male, 27 years old Police Officer Substantiated (Charges)
Force: Physical Force Asian male, 27 years old Police Officer Substantiated (Charges)
Force: Physical Force Asian female, 20 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated
Force: Pepper Spray Asian male, 27 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated
Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton) Asian male, 27 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in September 2007

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest Hispanic female, 45 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in May 2007

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop Hispanic male, 24 years old Police Officer Exonerated
Force: Physical Force Hispanic male, 24 years old Police Officer Exonerated

Complaint received in January 2007

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Question Black male, 30 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated

Complaint received in September 2006

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Force: Physical Force Black female, 14 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated
Discourtesy: Word Black female, 14 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated
Abuse of Authority: Question And/Or Stop Black female, 14 years old Police Officer Exonerated
Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical) Hispanic female, 16 years old Police Officer Unsubstantiated
Force: Physical Force Black female, 14 years old Police Officer Exonerated

Complaint received in March 2003

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search Black male, 37 years old Police Officer Exonerated
Force: Physical Force Black male, 37 years old Police Officer Exonerated
Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop Black male, 37 years old Police Officer Exonerated

Complaint received in August 1999

Allegation Complainant Details Rank at Time of Incident CCRB Conclusion
Force: Physical Force Black male, 31 years old Police Officer Exonerated
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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