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
Paul Brauer	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Leon Pedigo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2011
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2011
Joseph Weldon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Jolene Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Francisco Pina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Benson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Erica Lloyd	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Michele Herbst	Police Officer	White female	Not available female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eric Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Albert Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Canisius Xavier	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2011
Tyler Ehrlein	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Jason Jansky	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Roman Goris	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Michael Mannese	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Gabriel Baaith	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Santos Collazo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2011
James Drummy	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Byran Pitts	Detective	Black male	Black male, 61 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
David Leonardi	Detective	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Louis Marinacci	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Konstantin Genin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Kalifa Diomande	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Gellison Flores	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Alexis Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2011
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jonathan Kalman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Adam Acosta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
William Concannon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Joel Polichron	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eduardo Ledesma	Police Officer	Asian male	Not available male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2011
Bilal Ates	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Roberson Tunis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Alexandra Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 45 years old	Exonerated	2011
Michael Lennihan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Wilson Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Senia Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Alexandra Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 64 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Eric Reynolds	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Timothy Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Cesar Polanco	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Orlando Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Isaac Everett	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Greaney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Joseph Seminara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2010
Samantha Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Erick Erdaide	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Michael Greaney	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Shawn Wilkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Daniel Campbell	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Paul Scocca	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Paul Scocca	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Domingo Arjona	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Felix Concepcion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Felix Concepcion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Joseph Cruzado	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Matthew Zito	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Matthew Zito	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Christophe Derco	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frank Laquidara	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
William Larkin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2010
Damon Martin	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Damon Martin	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Derrick Milligan	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2010
Daniel Song	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	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
Brendan Egan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Matthew Buonaspina	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Edward Barry	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Gabriel Baaith	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Metsopulos	Police Officer	White male	White male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Mimoza Kokaras	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Patrick Hennessy	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Omar Birchwood	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joseph Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christophe Owen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Christophe Owen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Christophe Goldrick	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2010
Freddy Dominguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Cesar Polanco	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Victor Rosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Francisco Alcantara	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2010
Jose Cintron	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Thomas Dunsing	Detective	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
John Lindsey	Detective	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2010
Paul Oconnor	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Brian Newberry	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2010
Albert Jackson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	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.