Abuse of Authority: FRISK - The NYPD Files

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Abuse of Authority: Frisk

This page contains all allegations assigned to this category by the CCRB. Multiple similar allegations can appear for the same officer because a complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.

Officers With Complaints

1,327

Complaints

1,597

Allegations

1,926

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	Officer Details	Complainant Details	CCRB Conclusion	Year Received
Joseph Seminara	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2005
Joseph Durante	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2005
Blas Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Robert Nugent	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Michael Granshaw	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Philip Fioranelli	Police Officer	White male	Other Race female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Stephen Espinoza	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Licitra	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2006
Christopher McCormack	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Miguel Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Vincent Candela	Police Officer	White male	White male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2006
John Chavatte	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Donald Abrams	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Carleo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Cousinhayes	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Malcolm Freeman	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Lafata	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
David Barker	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Thomas Alps	Sergeant	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2006
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Darrien King	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jorge Ulloa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2006
Paul Insauto	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Clement Krug	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Sean Downes	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Richard Lavelle	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Jason Sharp	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Kevin Gallagher	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Timothy Jaycox	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
David Terrell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
James Donovan	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Robert Simms	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
John Caruso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Sean Mccarthy	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Jaime Pedraza	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
John Caruso	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Edgard Calderon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Nela Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Ivan Kolovic	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Manolin Molina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Rudolph Hall	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Titus Parham	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic female, 12 years old	Exonerated	2006
Nestor Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Jonathan Hom	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2006
Carl Lai	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Bieniewicz	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jay Wolsky	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jaime Pedraza	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Radoslaw Terepka	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Wilfredo Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joel Roman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Erik Lubrano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Valva	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Niles Prince	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2006
Raymond Molloy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Maricela Galindez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Marco Balboni	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Kevin Devine	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Stacyann Vega	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Leandro Castro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Kevin Matthews	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Jeremy Demarco	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Alberto Pizarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 21 years old	Exonerated	2006
Josh Kaveney	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
William Simon	Police Officer	White male	White male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jason Valentino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jose Camacho	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Zoilo Encarnacion	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Rafael Iturralde	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Sean Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Christophe Greiner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Jason Reynolds	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2006
Luis Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Lessard	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Thomas Casey	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Robert Dipaola	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Matthew Granahan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Carl Scogmanillo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Joel Roman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Metsopulos	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Dominick Bizzarro	Police Officer	White male	White male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ralph Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Ryan Foy	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2006
Dennis Harrigan	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Larry Burnham	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Emilio Aponte	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Brian Nyhus	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Ezequiel Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2006
Kevin Colvin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2006

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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.