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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Gerald Cucchiara Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Daniel Jennings Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2007
John Hopkins Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2007
John Tancredi Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Eric Beckel Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Matthew Lamendola Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Eduard Nogol Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Joseph Gulotta Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Bilal Ates Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Matthew Lamendola Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Darren Caranella Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Enrique Santos Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2007
Anthony Ronda Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Bilal Ates Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Paul Chierico Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Joyce Williams Lieutenant Black female Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Matthew Wright Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Robert Cruz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Fernando Guimaraes Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Jason Sharp Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Brian Ellensohn Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Christophe Zaleski Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Harvin Hart Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2007
Rajesh Lalwani Police Officer Asian male Not available Exonerated 2007
Richard Thompson Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
John Hart Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Jose Ortiz Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2007
Brendan Owens Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Trevor Baronette Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2007
Nicholas Ruiz Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Anthony Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2007
Willie Johnson Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2007
Joseph Stynes Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
John Andryuk Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Robert Reed Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Josh Kaveney Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Kevin Gallagher Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2007
Adam Sager Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Charles Gove Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Kristian Flood Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Paul Brauer Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2008
James Mcgarry Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Louis Guglielmo Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Robert Barnett Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Charles Peifer Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Joseph Peragallo Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Robert King Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2008
John Lindsey Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2008
Christopher McCormack Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
James Mcgarry Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
John Timpanaro Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Thomas Decker Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Christophe Devaney Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Anthony Davila Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
Michael Cronin Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2008
Michael Cronin Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Eric Beckel Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Shante Terrell Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2008
Michael White Sergeant Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Michael White Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2008
Patrick Kennedy Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Amanjeet Sandhu Sergeant Asian male Not available Exonerated 2008
Andrew Lipari Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2008
Steven Lopez Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Michael Lipetri Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Enrique Santos Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
John Hopkins Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2008
John Hopkins Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2008
John Hopkins Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Robert Clark Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Abraham Arteaga Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
Osvaldo Nunez Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
Travis Brinson Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Rebecca Guzman Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Berenice Delacruz Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2008
Frank Sarrica Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
Joyce Williams Lieutenant Black female Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Raghunan Ramroop Police Officer Asian male Not available Exonerated 2008
Christophe Alvarado Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
John Ulmer Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Barbara Fischer Sergeant White female Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Zoilo Encarnacion Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
Zoilo Encarnacion Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Adam Sager Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Zoilo Encarnacion Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Eric Samuels Sergeant Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Eric Samuels Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2008
David Powers Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Miguel Nunez Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2008
Alex Cruz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Benjamin White Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Jeffrey Maddrey Deputy Inspector Black male Not available Exonerated 2008
Gabriel Baaith Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2008
Eric Ruiz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
Federico Martinez Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
Jose Dejesus Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2008
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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