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 Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
John Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2010
Christophe Devaney	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Crystal Soto	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 62 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Shaniqua Clark	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Christophe Toal	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Amanjeet Sandhu	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female	Exonerated	2010
Stephen Dimassa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Stephen Dimassa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Forrest Hirsch	Police Officer	White male	American Indian male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Frankie Soler	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Frank Muirhead	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Frank Amill	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Mark Kistoo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2010
Angelo Pizzarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Patrick Nozdrovicky	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Brian Goldberg	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2010
Todd Keyes	Police Officer	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Erica Madden	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2010
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Lamont Gibson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Brian Coffey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Maryann Lodico	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Sandra Mamanicampos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Joseph Tarlentino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Joseph Cordones	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
David Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2010
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jason Nieves	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Ruben Cuesta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Angel Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2010
Darren King	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Frank Altieri	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Brian Clements	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic , 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Bennett Shelley	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Jorge Tavarez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jacob Aaronson	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2010
Leonardo Deoliveira	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Irene Bonicadelgado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Vearmell Avenger	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Christophe Beckett	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Patrick Dooley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Marcin Drozniak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joshua Bienvenue	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Joshua Bienvenue	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2010
Waziri Rumala	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ronald Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Merlyn Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Michael Nocerino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jose Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Clifford Louis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2010
Patrick Craig	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2010
Patrick Craig	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2010
Daniel Zollo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2010
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
David Afanador	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2010
Frantz Souffrant	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joseph Augello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Christophe Alvarado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Kurt Cani	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Leonel Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Scoloveno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jeff Torreda	Police Officer	Asian male	Asian male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2010
Edward Carrasco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2010
Victor Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Victor Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ezequiel Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Refused male, 49 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Miguel Iglesias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Miguel Iglesias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Carlos Lozada	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Edward Reardon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Milly Matos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 52 years old	Exonerated	2010
Kevin Kavanagh	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Durante	Sergeant	White male	White male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Matthew Fried	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Gregory Burns	Police Officer	White male	White male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Trent Narra	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Robert Romano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Gustavo Medina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Devin Long	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Gerald Cucchiara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 12 years old	Exonerated	2010
John Mchugh	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Steven Souffrin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2010
Evangelos Galatas	Police Officer	White male	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
Bryan Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Derco	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kristopher Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009

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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.