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
Thomas Smith	Captain	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
John Hall	Captain	White male	Not available male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Elias Nikas	Captain	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Christopher McCormack	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Rolando Carbonell	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	Not available male	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
David Demelia	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joel Polichron	Detective	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Franco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	White male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2014
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Rolando Carbonell	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Erick Flores	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Edward Mcbride	Detective	White male	Asian male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
David Cowan	Detective	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Andrew Nash	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2017
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Refused male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
James Cleary	Detective	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Julio Micheli	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Joel Polichron	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ivelisse Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 12 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Carlin	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Kelly	Detective	White male	Refused male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Albert Jackson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Louis Dambrosio	Detective	White male	Unknown not described, 27 years old	Exonerated	2018
Matthew Fried	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Matthew Zito	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Daniel Guida	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Johnnie Rosario	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Byran Pitts	Detective	Black male	Black male, 61 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	White female, 48 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2013
Steven Lopez	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2018
Thomas Napolitano	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2016
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2014
Aubrey Henry	Detective	Black male	Unknown male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2004
Jeremiah Williams	Detective	Black male	Black male, 59 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Joseph Franco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Wilson Verdesoto	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Thomas Lodico	Detective	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2013
Jose Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2008
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Stephen Lalchan	Detective	Asian male	Asian male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Eugene Jonny	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Eugene Jonny	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Kelly	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Eugene Jonny	Detective	White male	Black male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2012
Julio Lasalle	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Daniel Ticali	Detective	American Indian male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Adam Seidenberg	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Louis Dambrosio	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2018
Louis Dambrosio	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2018
Richard Zacarese	Detective	White male	Black male, 1 years old	Exonerated	2009
James Zozzaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Steven Cohan	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2004
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Alberto Angilletta	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Victor Robalino	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available , 34 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Ching Nieh	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Elijah Boyle	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Michael Gonzalez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2017
Daniel Guida	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Donovan	Detective	Asian male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2015
Delcar Savage	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Darryl Schwartz	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
David Small	Detective	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Darryl Schwartz	Detective	White male	Not available male	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Abel Perez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Tyler Ehrlein	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Daniel Gasperetti	Detective	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2018
Victor Cardona	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Daniel Gasperetti	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2017
David Leonardi	Detective	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Michael Friedman	Detective	White male	White male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2012
Wilmar Mejia	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Rosa Gonzaleznoa	Detective	Hispanic female	White female, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Ivelisse Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Jose Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Daniel Baca	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	White male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	White male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Green	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016

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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.