Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

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
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2017
Ryan Galvin Police Officer White male Not available male Exonerated 2013
Richard Browne Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Michael Pellegrin Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Milly Matos Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Kyron Delarosa Police Officer Hispanic male Not available male, 24 years old Exonerated 2019
Chad Mack Police Officer Black male Not available male, 30 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2014
Rashan Lacoste Detective Black male Not available male, 25 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Danny Williams Police Officer Black male Not available male, 60 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2014
Paul Insauto Police Officer White male Not available male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Ralph Cilento Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Darrell Lowe Police Officer White male Not available male Substantiated (Charges) 2016
Daniel Boylan Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Ariel Eusebio Police Officer Hispanic male Not available male, 18 years old Exonerated 2017
Derrick Kreckmann Police Officer White male Not available , 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
James Ludvick Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Manolin Molina Police Officer Hispanic male Not available , 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jose Tejada Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
David Fitchik Police Officer White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2019
Derrick Kreckmann Police Officer White male Not available , 32 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Canisius Xavier Police Officer Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Jeremy Demarco Police Officer White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2007
Piero Lasaponara Police Officer White male Not available male Exonerated 2014
Elias Nikas Captain White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Joby Thomas Police Officer Asian male Not available male, 18 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Triston Trunk Police Officer Hispanic male Not available , 37 years old Exonerated 2017
Christophe Greiner Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2014
Andrew Valenzano Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Douglas Carr Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Instructions) 2005
Christophe Mcdonald Police Officer Black male Not available not described Exonerated 2017
Eduardo Ledesma Police Officer Asian male Not available male, 25 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2011
Derek Almeida Police Officer Hispanic male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2011
Lawrence Perrotta Police Officer White male Not available male Exonerated 2009
Joshua Navarro Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2018
Wayman Manning Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Rafal Korycki Police Officer White male Not available male Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Jose Tejada Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Jose Santory Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Omar Elsayed Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2014
David Fitchik Police Officer White male Not available male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Christian Flores Sergeant Hispanic male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2019
Matthew Shaw Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Alexis Alvarez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available male, 16 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Konrad Zakiewicz Police Officer White male Not available male, 25 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Vaughan Ettienne Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2006
Kirk Boone Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Michael Duggan Police Officer White male Not available , 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2018
Robert Orlando Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2007
Amaury Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Matthew Escudero Police Officer Hispanic male Not available male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
David Grieco Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2017
Nicholas Neve Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Thomas Reo Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2014
Brendan Owens Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Michael Bellagamba Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Erick Flores Detective Hispanic male Not available male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2019
Michael Becker Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2017
Essence Jackson Detective Black male Not available male Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Jolan Lewis Police Officer Black male Not available male, 12 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Pasquale Dethomas Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2019
Jason Valentino Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2019
Michael Nocerino Sergeant White male Not available male Exonerated 2019
Jose Villafane Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Jean Prinston Police Officer Black male Not available male, 46 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Elijah Boyle Detective Hispanic male Not available male, 20 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2018
Roodly Demorcy Police Officer Black male Not available , 25 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
Sandra Martinez Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2018
Justin Grieco Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Instructions) 2008
Jhonny Milfort Police Officer Black male Not available male, 46 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Richard Lavelle Police Officer White male Not available male, 16 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Winston Willabus Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
David Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2019
Michele Herbst Police Officer White female Not available female, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2011
Jose Santory Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
David Leonardi Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Darryl Schwartz Detective White male Not available male Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Jennifer Brown Police Officer White female Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2009
Christophe Chin Police Officer Black male Not available male, 21 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
Christophe Sanchez Police Officer White male Not available male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Paul Chierico Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
David Fitchik Police Officer White male Not available male Unsubstantiated 2019
Aldo Yubini Police Officer Hispanic male Not available male, 28 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Gabriel Cuadros Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2018
Melissa Eger Sergeant White female Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2007
Stephanie Mazza Police Officer White female Not available male, 30 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
John Becerra Sergeant Hispanic male Not available , 59 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2018
John Hall Captain White male Not available male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Christophe Carlin Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Not available male Exonerated 2005
Niles Prince Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2005
James Trapasso Police Officer White male Not available male, 19 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Victor Robalino Detective Hispanic male Not available , 34 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Paul Oconnor Police Officer White male American Indian male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Steven Rupnick Police Officer White male American Indian male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2018
Paul Scocca Police Officer White male American Indian male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Forrest Hirsch Police Officer White male American Indian male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Michael Romeo Police Officer White male American Indian male, 45 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Donald Kipp Sergeant White male American Indian male, 32 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Vincent Dandraia Police Officer White male American Indian male, 31 years old Exonerated 2019
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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.
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