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
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2009
Christophe Derco	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2009
Brian Holshek	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2009
William Sommer	Sergeant	White male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joseph Wernersbach	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Wilson Quiles	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Richard Zacarese	Detective	White male	Black male, 1 years old	Exonerated	2009
Dedrick Hall	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Elias Nikas	Captain	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 30 years old	Exonerated	2009
Frank Desiderato	Police Officer	White male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Basil Omisanya	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 12 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Angel Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Robert Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
David Cussen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
Theohari Koumniotes	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Thomas Marco	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Robert Nugent	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Neil Casey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Mourad Arslanbeck	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2009
Neil Casey	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
Aaron Lohman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2009
Merlyn Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Rosanna Capellan	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 41 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Daniel Mufaddi	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jennifer Brown	Police Officer	White female	Not available	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Mark Oconnell	Detective	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Jason Cira	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Marcy Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Eric Konoski	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Servino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jamie Blandeburgo	Police Officer	White female	White female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Wesley Fradera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 62 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Glenn Ziminski	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Robert Nugent	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Min Kim	Police Officer	Asian male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Bellagamba	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2009
Joshua Faranda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Christophe Dede	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Matthew Fried	Police Officer	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Bellagamba	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
Jennifer Laskykuehn	Police Officer	White female	White male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
James Simpson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Raymond Kwong	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Bruce Ceparano	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Anthony Proscia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2009
Sandy Polanco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2009
Timothy Nugent	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Adam Katrincic	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jessica Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Rikkie Dookie	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
Brian Clements	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2009
Brian Clements	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Michael Moyer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Roberto Cordero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Danny Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Christophe Friscia	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jacy Reese	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2009
Julio Delgado	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2009
Daniel Barreto	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jeffrey Scalf	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Ronnie Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Edward Mcclain	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2009
Steven Gansrow	Detective	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Peter Russo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Kevin Deleon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Christian Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Sasha Rosen	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joseph Azevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Christophe Beckett	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Irie Humphrey	Detective	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Michael Boehm	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Juan Ventura	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Keith Weber	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Railyng Frias	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Kevin Mockel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2009
Sean Mchugh	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kirk Boone	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Denise Moroney	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Gilbert Barkman	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Lawrence Perrotta	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Exonerated	2009
Amaury Soriano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Jonathan Lovera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Rafael Montanez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Burt Antoine	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Franklyn Sepulveda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jorge Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
Christophe Devaney	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
James White	Detective	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
David Demelia	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Johnnie Rosario	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2009
Waziri Rumala	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2009
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2009
Andrew Hayes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2009
Petr Janak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 13 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	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.