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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Eric Robinson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Thomas Alps Captain White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Theodore Federoff Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Stephen Espinoza Captain Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2013
Craig Edelman Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Brian Gill Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Brian Nyhus Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Roberto Melendez Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Mark Dipaolo Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Michael Baldassano Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Michael Lipetri Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Michael Lipetri Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Michael Lipetri Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Roberto Melendez Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Joseph Gulotta Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Johnny Orellana Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2015
Fernando Guimaraes Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2013
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Philip Rivera Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
Scott Henderson Captain Black male Not available Exonerated 2012
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Courtney Nilan Captain White female Not available Exonerated 2016
Brian Gill Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Stephen Espinoza Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2014
Joseph Matzinger Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2017
Michael Lipetri Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Anthony Longobardi Captain White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2015
Roberto Melendez Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Brian Gill Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Brian Gill Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Michael Lipetri Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Fernando Guimaraes Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2014
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2007
Justin Lenz Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2013
Joseph Gulotta Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Joseph Gulotta Captain White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Chris Morello Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Bruce Ceparano Captain White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Thomas Passolo Captain White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Frank Vega Captain Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Frank Vega Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2003
Roberto Melendez Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Miltiadis Marmara Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Paul Inzirillo Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2006
Michael Lipetri Chiefs and other ranks White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Thomas Galati Deputy Inspector White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2002
Christopher McCormack Deputy Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2013
Deodat Urprasad Deputy Inspector Asian male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
John Essig Deputy Inspector White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Jeffrey Maddrey Deputy Inspector Black male Not available Exonerated 2008
Thomas Galati Deputy Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Kieran Creighton Deputy Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Thomas Galati Deputy Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Jesse Lance Deputy Inspector Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Rodney Harrison Deputy Inspector Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
John Essig Deputy Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Ernest Morales Deputy Inspector Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2017
Daniel Baca Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2013
John Zamot Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Kristian Flood Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Daniel Ticali Detective American Indian male Not available Exonerated 2010
Thomas Woods Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2014
Brian Fleming Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2009
John Zamot Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2014
Patrick Davis Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Gabriel Nacelewicz Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2014
Mohammed Rios Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2017
Andres Libreros Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2010
Stephen Lalchan Detective Asian male Not available Exonerated 2016
Gabriel Nacelewicz Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Eliot Arias Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Leontyne Garner Detective Black female Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Michael Egan Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2009
Fernando Espindola Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2014
Scott Cote Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Craig Crisfield Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Michael Kelly Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Franklyn Sepulveda Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2012
Carl Roadarmel Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Randy Rose Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2017
John Timpanaro Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2008
Thomas Napolitano Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2017
Cornelius Oshea Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2014
Emrah Ates Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2014
Aubrey Henry Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2003
Thomas Napolitano Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Thomas Napolitano Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2016
Thomas Napolitano Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2017
Daniel Castillo Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Thomas Varghese Detective Asian male Not available Exonerated 2013
Ching Nieh Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Wilson Verdesoto Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2015
Daniel Castillo Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Thomas Decker Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2008
Joseph Marquez Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2014
Carlos Vazquez Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2005
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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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