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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Okera Morrison | Sergeant | Black male | Black female, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| James Delumen | Detective | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Matthew Palmieri | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
| Matthew Palmieri | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Guy Gargano | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
| Pawel Wala | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Ronald Robinson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Joshua Marte | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Rashan Lacoste | Detective | Black male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Michael Dicecco | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Dominic Cappiello | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
| Shacole Odell | Police Officer | Black female | White female, 28 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Henry Daverin | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Delvis Garcia | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Wilmar Mejia | Detective | Hispanic male | White male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Scott Zeitler | Police Officer | White male | White male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Hariton Marachilian | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 60 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| James Dick | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Derek Sambolin | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Ricardo Cuenca | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| John Galbo | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Jack Dagnese | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Deangelo Jones | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 58 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Gary Calhoun | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 50 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
| Lauren Au | Police Officer | Asian female | White male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| George Katris | Detective | White male | Black male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Brian Alexander | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Elijah Austin | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
| John King | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Jose Santory | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| John Galbo | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Kellyann Carreiro | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Jean Seder | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 53 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Jose Santory | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| John Musante | Sergeant | White male | White male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
| Colin Sullivan | Police Officer | White male | White male, 52 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Bryan Hagmaier | Police Officer | White male | White male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Christophe Zaleski | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Julio Lasalle | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Eric Konoski | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Anderson Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Michael Mcdonnell | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Joseph Mcevoy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Hugh Herbert | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Joseph Mcevoy | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Timothy Rizzo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Gerardo Urbaez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Anthony Donato | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
| Konrad Zakiewicz | Police Officer | White male | Not available male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Paul Chierico | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
| Pablo Taveras | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
| Dalsh Veve | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| Okera Morrison | Sergeant | Black male | Unknown female, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Fernando Rodriguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| Glenda Wajer | Detective | Hispanic female | Black male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
| John Zanca | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
| James Cleary | Detective | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
| Stephen Faber | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
| Nicholas Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
| Michael Whooley | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2014 |
| Ryan Hoffmann | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
| Tonica Corlette | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Thomas Gagliardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male | Exonerated | 2014 |
| Anton Bartoldus | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Steve Higgins | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2014 |
| Paul Palminteri | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
| Paul Palminteri | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
| James Trapasso | Police Officer | White male | Not available male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
| Brian Tiernan | Sergeant | White male | Asian male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Piero Lasaponara | Police Officer | White male | Not available male | Exonerated | 2014 |
| Daniel Guida | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 56 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Derek Webber | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2014 |
| Derek Webber | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 39 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2014 |
| Patrick Norcott | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
| Delinda Giraldo | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Daniel Kern | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Carl Pattelli | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
| Ryan Larson | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Robert Mciver | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
| Thomas Guy | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Juan Hernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
| Lisa Bonsignore | Police Officer | White female | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Luke Denesopolis | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
| Joseph Cruzado | Sergeant | White male | Other Race male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Francisco Guzman | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
| Jimmy Clerge | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Enver Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2014 |
| Stephen Sheppard | Police Officer | White male | White male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
| Luke Denesopolis | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
| Daniel Golat | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
| Eric Healy | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
| Rudy Dominguez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2014 |
| William Butler | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 47 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
| Stephen Loffredo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
| Victor Cardona | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
| Donald Sehl | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
| Kelvin Peralta | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
| Adam Dumelle | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
| David Castro | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
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.