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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Gregory Abrahams Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2003
Herbert Martin Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2003
Kenneth Dwyer Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2003
Kirth Buckley Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2003
Ronald Bolte Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2004
Vincent Fontana Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2004
John Todaro Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2004
John Todaro Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Steven Hearns Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Steven Weiss Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2004
William Waldron Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Alfred Moberg Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Angie Colon Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Angela Morris Sergeant Black female Not available Exonerated 2004
Joseph Tallarine Detective White male Black female, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Joseph Tallarine Detective White male Black female, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Joseph Hickey Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Joseph Tallarine Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Raymond Tomins Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Brian Ilund Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Anthony Davila Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2004
Christophe Dukes Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Paul Mcmahon Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Fernando Espindola Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Lashonda Dyce Police Officer Black female Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2004
Robert Brenzel Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Edward Colucci Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2004
Anthony Salato Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2004
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2004
Brian Mccloskey Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Michael Mchugh Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Johnny Lawrence Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Joseph Durante Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Dion Edwards Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2005
Timothy Rogers Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Christophe Lembo Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
John Ferrara Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Paul Pizzuta Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
John Gogarty Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Robert Krohley Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Christopher McCormack Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
John Ferrara Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Carlos Vazquez Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2005
Eric Bolger Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Christopher McCormack Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Lee Wittek Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Carlos Fabara Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2005
Michael Miller Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Isa Abbassi Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Christophe Devaney Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Christophe Lagrasta Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Steven Weiss Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Christopher McCormack Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Carlos Fabara Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Edward Deighan Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Fernando Guimaraes Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2005
Christophe Lagrasta Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Edward Scali Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Freddy Dominguez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Louis Pepe Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2005
Richard Bergin Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Jason Forgione Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Darryl Chen Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2005
Keith Walker Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Richard Gibson Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Joseph Hickey Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Eric Delman Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Manuel Matos Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Nicholas Ruiz Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Jeffrey Brienza Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Jason Forgione Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Paul Mcmahon Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Paul Mcmahon Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Joseph Amato Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Joseph Amato Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Jaime Arroyo Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2005
Emilio Melendez Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2005
Lesly Charles Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2005
Jose Dejesus Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2005
Ted Saintgerard Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Lowez Walker Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2005
Mack Lipinski Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Joseph Ricotta Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Robert Henderson Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Kevin Gallagher Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Daniel Campbell Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Anthony Salato Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2005
John Hopkins Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Leontyne Garner Detective Black female Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Eric Ruiz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Keith Walker Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Jaime Pedraza Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2005
Isa Abbassi Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2005
Robert Garcia Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2005
Edward Barry Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Rafael Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Andrew Puglisi Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
David Cuce Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2006
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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