NYPD Oversight Board Releases Extensive Data on Complaints Against Police

NEW YORK, NY — The Civilian Complaint Review Board, an oversight committee for the New York Police Department, released on Tuesday a giant data dump of misconduct complaints against officers going back to 2006. The data dump includes a whopping 192,000 police misconduct allegations and breaks it down by allegations, victims and NYPD officers.

"The data presented is not intended to suggest correlation or causality and is updated regularly," the CCRB page says.

The city's independent review board offers a handful of breakdowns New Yorkers can explore, including the number of complaints per year, what the complaints alleged, complaints broken down by borough and district, how the complaints were filed, where the alleged incidents occurred, and what time of day they occurred.

The CCRB also offers the complaint data broken down by "reason for contact," how often the alleged misconduct results in an arrest or summons, how many stop-and-frisk complaints were filed as a comparison over time, and how many involved video recordings of the alleged incident.

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>>You can look at all of the datasets available here.

One dataset breaks down how many complaints were actually fully investigated per year, which is a small fraction. In 2015, for example, 58 percent of the 5,235 complaints were not fully investigated, according to the data.
In another dataset that breaks down why a complaint investigation was stopped before it was completed, "Complainant/Victim/Witness Uncooperative" is the reason given for over half of complaints not fully investigated each year, according to the data.

The CCRB also breaks down the alleged victims who filed complaints by gender, age and race. Just over half of the people who filed complaints identified as Black, and a quarter identified as Hispanic.

The board released the data dump as part of its Data Transparency Initiative, to give New Yorkers a better idea of complaints the CCRB reviews and hear community feedback.

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