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
Michael Bellagamba	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2009
Angel Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Adam Katrincic	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kevin Deleon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Michael Bellagamba	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
Kirk Boone	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Michael Moyer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Elias Nikas	Captain	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Peter Borukhov	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2009
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ronnie Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Andrew Hayes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2009
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2009
Michael Boehm	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Theohari Koumniotes	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joshua Faranda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Jamie Blandeburgo	Police Officer	White female	White female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Wilson Quiles	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Jason Cira	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jason Brunson	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Clifford Louis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
David Demelia	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Evangelos Galatas	Police Officer	White male	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
Barbara Fischer	Sergeant	White female	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jennifer Brown	Police Officer	White female	Not available	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Edward Mcclain	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2009
Clifford Louis	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Victor Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Jose Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Gregory Burns	Police Officer	White male	White male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Jeff Torreda	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Sandra Mamanicampos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Trent Narra	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Patrick Dooley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Durante	Sergeant	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Marcin Drozniak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Matthew Fried	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Tarlentino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Ezequiel Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Isaac Everett	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Leonardo Deoliveira	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Daniel Campbell	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Brendan Egan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
David Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2010
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2010
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Paul Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Irene Bonicadelgado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Brian Newberry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2010
Paul Oconnor	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Jason Nieves	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Bennett Shelley	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Jorge Tavarez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jacob Aaronson	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic , 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Matthew Zito	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Brian Clements	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Matthew Zito	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edward Barry	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Ignazio Conca	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Timothy Jaycox	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
John Mchugh	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Steven Souffrin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2010
Angel Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2010
Edward Reardon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Shawn Wilkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
John Lindsey	Detective	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2010
Daniel Song	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Thomas Dunsing	Detective	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Milly Matos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Darren King	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Kevin Kavanagh	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Matthew Buonaspina	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Frank Altieri	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Damon Martin	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
William Larkin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2010
Patrick Hennessy	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frank Laquidara	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
Gerald Cucchiara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 12 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jose Cintron	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Damon Martin	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Lamont Gibson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Joseph Cordones	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Christophe Derco	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Vearmell Avenger	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Angelo Pizzarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frantz Souffrant	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010

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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.