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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Ticali | Detective | American Indian male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
| Karanlall Brijbukhan | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2007 |
| James Donovan | Detective | Asian male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| James Donovan | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2006 |
| Canisius Xavier | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
| Eric Pena | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
| John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
| George Huang | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2007 |
| Michael Furrs | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Jeffrey Liu | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Teng Luo | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2006 |
| Jeff Torreda | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
| Samuel Hui | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Shibu Madhu | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2016 |
| Malcolm Liu | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
| Yoosup Shim | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
| Eric Pena | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
| Kwang Choi | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2011 |
| Daniel Song | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
| Michael Furrs | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Mukhlesur Rahman | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
| Mizbah Noor | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
| Min Kim | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
| James Lee | Lieutenant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Shuzhen Wong | Police Officer | Asian female | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
| Lauren Au | Police Officer | Asian female | White male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Ahsan Zafar | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Daniel Song | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
| David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Brian Raghoenathsingh | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Mobeen Yasin | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
| John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
| John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
| Raymond Kwong | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
| Daniel Oh | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Timothy Finn | Police Officer | Asian male | Asian male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Min Kim | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| David Cheesewright | Sergeant | Asian male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Song | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
| Ahsan Zafar | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Michael Furrs | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 41 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2013 |
| Shoumendra Nandy | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
| Ronald Remo | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Godwin Ngai | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Tsz Kwan | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
| James Donovan | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
| Ahsan Zafar | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
| Soney Varghese | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
| David Paray | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
| Simon Rashid | Police Officer | Asian male | Refused male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
| Sajit Tomy | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
| Philip Tsang | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2013 |
| Jonathan Hom | Police Officer | Asian male | Black female, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
| Glenn Ziminski | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
| Joby Thomas | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Ahsan Zafar | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2013 |
| Shilendra Sawh | Police Officer | Asian male | White male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
| Jonathan Hom | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Samuel Hui | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Brian Raghoenathsingh | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
| Satinderpa Singh | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Junaid Saeed | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Tony Ip | Police Officer | Asian male | Unknown male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Eduardo Ledesma | Police Officer | Asian male | Not available male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2011 |
| John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 25 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2008 |
| John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
| John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
| Amanjeet Sandhu | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female | Exonerated | 2010 |
| Junaid Saeed | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Junaid Saeed | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
| Stephen Lalchan | Detective | Asian male | Asian male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Gaetjeans Doxy | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
| Bryan Bromley | Police Officer | Black male | Asian male | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
| Jermaine Scott | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 12 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Erica Lloyd | Sergeant | Black female | Black male, 42 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
| Sean Mitchell | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
| Duane Atkinson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2007 |
| Anthony Wright | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
| James Holder | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Noel Alphonso | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Charles Awani | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
| James Holder | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Duane Atkinson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2010 |
| Teddy Duroc | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2016 |
| Reuben Antwi | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
| Kitwane Lewis | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
| Sharif Portee | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
| Charles Awani | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
| Tricia Thomas | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
| Franky Joseph | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
| Franky Joseph | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
| Franky Joseph | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 55 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
| Erek Powers | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
| Jacy Reese | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
| Frantz Souffrant | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 41 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
| Jacy Reese | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2008 |
| Devon Hudson | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
| Kenneth Clarke | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
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.