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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
James Mcgarry Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
John Hopkins Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Robert Nugent Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Raghunan Ramroop Police Officer Asian male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Walter Valentin Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Steven Owens Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2009
Frank Laquidara Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Kevin Gallagher Lieutenant White male Black male, 28 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2009
Raymond Tomins Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
William Sommer Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Robert Oswald Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Steven Malone Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2009
Daniel Diaz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
Thomas Moroney Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2009
Michael Mitchell Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2009
John Gogarty Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2009
Michael Lipetri Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Vincent Virbukas Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Brian Fleming Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Daniel Zollo Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2009
James Dengate Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Annemarie Murphy Sergeant White female Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Angel Arroyo Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Edward Colucci Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Robert Roda Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Jalin Bulding Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Robert Roda Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Edward Colucci Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Joseph Bonner Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Christian Addison Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Steven Green Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Shibu Madhu Police Officer Asian male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Philip Fioranelli Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Eli Slavkin Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Anthony Lamberti Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Brian Donoghue Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Andrew Duguid Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Juan Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
Andrew Duguid Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
David Oconnell Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Antwon Trent Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2009
Alex Toro Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
Kevin Whelan Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Joel Rosenthal Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Abraham Arteaga Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
Paul Mcmahon Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Kevin Breen Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Michael Egan Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Christophe Esposito Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Frank Sarrica Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Merlyn Bermudez Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Gene Etoria Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2009
Orlando Sanchez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
Louis Dambrosio Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Christophe Ward Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
James Trapasso Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Erik Rubinstein Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Barbara Fischer Sergeant White female Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Barbara Fischer Sergeant White female Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Steven Abrahamsen Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Matthew Zito Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Angel Colon Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Larry Burnham Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Seth Lynch Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Robert Arnold Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Ernest Morales Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
Seth Lynch Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Chris Morello Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Willie Johnson Detective Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Titus Parham Sergeant Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2009
Titus Parham Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2009
James Mahoney Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2009
Rolando Carbonell Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
Fitzroy Vigilance Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2009
William Bravo Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2009
Fitzroy Vigilance Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2009
Daniel Beddows Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Juan Ortiz Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2009
Shante Terrell Detective Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Adam Robbins Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Peter Valentin Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2010
Felix Espinal Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2010
John Hopkins Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Piero Lasaponara Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2010
Patrick Hennessy Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Damon Martin Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2010
Jasmin Nikocevic Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Alexander Grandstaff Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2010
Javier Valentin Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2010
Richard Turk Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2010
William Sommer Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Daniel Barreto Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Luis Santiago Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2010
David Paray Police Officer Asian male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Luke Denesopolis Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Sean Edwards Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2010
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
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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