The NYPD Files
Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
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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 |
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Dana Ladson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Richard Lavelle | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Thomas Trachta | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Samuel Hui | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
William Schumacher | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Railyng Frias | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Luke Denesopolis | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Daniel Guida | Lieutenant | White male | Unknown male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Tanya Bucknor | Police Officer | Black female | Black male | Exonerated | 2016 |
Andrew Hayes | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Jorge Torres | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Joseph Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Daniel Callinan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Philip Tsang | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Tomas Janciauskas | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Louis Villegas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Dany Fana | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Thomas Kelly | Lieutenant | White male | Unknown male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Zoilo Encarnacion | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Louis Aponte | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Tanya Bucknor | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Vincent Dandraia | Police Officer | White male | American Indian male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Michael Nocerino | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Radoslaw Terepka | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Joshua Bienvenue | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Lawrence Perrotta | Police Officer | White male | Not available male | Exonerated | 2009 |
Jerome Teahan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Kyle Stanley | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Daniel Callinan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 54 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Gabriel Cuevas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Ariel Eusebio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Gregory Vasquez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Michael Lunetta | Police Officer | White male | White male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Junaid Saeed | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Kevin Maloney | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Christophe Cunha | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Daniel Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Michael Gonzalez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Connor Walsh | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Titus Parham | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic female, 12 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Louis Aponte | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Elvis Alcivar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Tanya Bucknor | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Timothy Brovakos | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Carl Scogmanillo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Junaid Saeed | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Junaid Saeed | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male | Exonerated | 2019 |
Michael Nocerino | Sergeant | White male | Not available male | Exonerated | 2019 |
Waziri Rumala | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
James Gale | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 62 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Burt Antoine | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Nikolaos Stefopoulos | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Kevin Morgan | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Miguel Alvarez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Anthony Lustica | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Yaritza Casul | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male | Exonerated | 2017 |
Manolis Kambouris | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Alexis Dejesus | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
James Giamboi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Justin Cracchiola | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Jose Camacho | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Steven Ramunno | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Kristy Abbasciano | Police Officer | White female | Hispanic male, 16 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Ariel Eusebio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Thomas Alps | Sergeant | White male | Black male | Exonerated | 2006 |
Albert Rodriguez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Ariel Eusebio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Jorge Rodriguez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Andre Morris | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Matthew Demaio | Police Officer | White male | White male, 55 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Steven Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
David Ramirez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Exonerated | 2019 |
David Ramirez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Kevin Maloney | Lieutenant | White male | White male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Daniel Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Kevin Maloney | Lieutenant | White male | Refused male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Shameeka Cummings | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Gary Leite | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Edmundo Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Andre Morris | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male | Exonerated | 2018 |
Kevin Mockel | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Gary Leite | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Frank Bulzoni | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Steven Cohan | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
David Sammarco | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Leonel Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Alexis Fernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Daniel Davidoff | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Joseph Stynes | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Marlon Wright | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Alexis Fernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Christophe Muller | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Kyron Delarosa | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Kelvin Peralta | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Kyron Delarosa | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Milly Matos | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 52 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Christophe Alvarado | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Michael Valva | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
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.