Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched

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
952
Complaints
1,224
Allegations
1,555

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
Steve Lafortune Detective Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
James Zozzaro Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Richard Bevers Detective White male Unknown male Exonerated 2015
James Zozzaro Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Michael Greaney Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Michael Greaney Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Alexandru Anghel Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Robert Castro Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Michael Greaney Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Brian Goss Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
Janson Pena Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Neil Conde Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Janson Pena Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
Shibu Madhu Sergeant Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Eric Pena Detective Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Jacob Habib Detective Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Anthony Davila Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Jose Dejesus Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Greg Desideri Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
James Donovan Detective Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Marcin Drozniak Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Jason Garcia Detective Hispanic male Black female, 30 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Joe Green Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Corey Gresko Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Scott Cote Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Christopher McCormack Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Brian Ilund Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2015
John Mccrossen Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Michael Lipetri Inspector White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Carlos Narvaez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
Paul Mcmahon Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Eric Ortiz Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Richard Ortiz Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Daniel Pelan Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Michael Doyle Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Adrian Ramon Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Michael Riso Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Wilson Verdesoto Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Steven Acevedo Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Luis Machado Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Dany Fana Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Frank Ventura Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Joseph Viggiano Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2015
James White Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
James White Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Robert Bosland Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
Paul Chierico Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Paul Chierico Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Jacqueline Estrada Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2015
Francisco Maria Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2015
Anthony Longobardi Captain White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Richard Tarver Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Nathan Mole Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2015
Delvis Garcia Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Christophe Winiarz Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Christophe Salamone Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Shacole Odell Police Officer Black female Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
John Musante Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Richard Gadson Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Frankie Hernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
Henry Daverin Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2015
James Reilly Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Jacqueline Febres Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Shacole Odell Police Officer Black female Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
Daniel Castillo Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Brenton Cole Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2015
Tom Stefanski Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Instructions) 2015
Paul Brauer Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Michael Fahmy Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Patrick Hennessy Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2015
John Zamot Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Brian Shevitz Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
Charles Senat Sergeant Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2015
William Schumacher Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Christophe Davis Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2015
Frank Sarrica Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Eric Francis Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
James Berk Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Joaquin Morales Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Ramiro Ruiz Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Ivan Angeles Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Eric Dileonardo Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Michael Dicecco Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Karol Smiarowski Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2015
John Mchugh Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Johnny Orellana Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
James Baez Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Victor Defense Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2015
Christophe Zaleski Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Michael Loosen Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Anthony Russo Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Essence Jackson Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2015
John Hopkins Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2015
Katrina Forrester Detective Black female Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Kevin Judge Lieutenant White male Other Race male, 26 years old Exonerated 2015
Waliur Rahman Detective Asian male Not available Exonerated 2015
Anthony Donato Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Jessenia Tabb Sergeant Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2015
Alexandru Anghel Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2015
Maurice Grant Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2015
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.
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