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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Michael Miller Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Rafael Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Paul Inzirillo Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Craig Wright Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2006
Joseph Viggiano Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Joe Frazier Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Richard Pignatelli Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
David Cuce Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Miltiadis Marmara Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Michael Ingram Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2006
David Terrell Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
John Baumeister Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Daniel Campbell Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Jaime Rosado Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2006
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Kevin Paynter Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Richard Pignatelli Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Jose Dejesus Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Christopher McCormack Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Michael Ingram Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2006
Enrique Santos Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2006
Kevin Gallagher Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Todd Jacoby Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
John Donovan Police Officer Asian male White male, 35 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Sekou Bourne Detective Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Damon Martin Sergeant Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Oghenevigh Okrokoto Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2006
Kevin Judge Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Bradley Field Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Lawrence Hotaling Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Gary Denezzo Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Edward Scali Police Officer White male White male, 35 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
John Chavatte Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Dana Harge Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2006
Christophe Lagrasta Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Robert Vanhouten Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
John Hopkins Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
James Delumen Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Not available Exonerated 2006
Robert Simms Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Sean Downes Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Craig Crisfield Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Eric Beckel Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Giovanna Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2006
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Angel Badillo Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2006
Edward Barry Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Frank Bulzoni Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Jolan Lewis Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2006
Mark Vazquez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2006
Andrew Puglisi Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Jens Maldonado Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2006
Eric Robinson Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Christopher McCormack Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Christopher McCormack Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Francisco Castillo Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Christophe Friscia Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Sergio Marte Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Kevin Matthews Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Joseph Gulotta Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Jason Sharp Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Daniel Young Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
William Otoole Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Fernando Guimaraes Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Harvin Hart Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2007
Michael Tarulli Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Bilal Ates Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Gerald Cucchiara Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Robert Krohley Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Todd Craven Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Joyce Williams Lieutenant Black female Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Eloy Sanchez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2007
Tsz Kwan Police Officer Asian male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Jason Sharp Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Bilal Ates Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Enrique Santos Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2007
Matthew Lamendola Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Brendan Owens Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Gilbert Barkman Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Anthony Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2007
Richard Thompson Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Kevin Gallagher Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Robert Cruz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Trevor Baronette Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2007
Michael Lipetri Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Manuel Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2007
Buxton Pryor Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Paul Chierico Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Juan Ortiz Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Neil Conde Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Manuel Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Michael Lipetri Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2007
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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