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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Edward Barry Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Emile Provencher Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Christophe Furda Police Officer Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Aaron Lohman Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Sean Mccarren Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Kevin Paynter Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Robert Orlando Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Instructions) 2011
James Titus Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Kevin Gallagher Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Anthony Ronda Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
Leonard Clarke Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
David Grieco Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Christophe Owen Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Damon Martin Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2011
Robert Mayer Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Michael Lennihan Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Christophe Pasquale Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Christophe Pasquale Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Bogdan Tabor Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Instructions) 2011
Florencio Arquer Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Joseph Lafata Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Malcolm Liu Police Officer Asian male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Andrew Puglisi Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Carlos Segovia Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
John Gogarty Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Joseph Gulotta Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Kevin Shea Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Matthew Monahan Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
Claudio Ramirez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Antonio Santana Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Michael White Sergeant Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Michael White Sergeant Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael White Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2011
Michael White Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2011
Michael White Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2011
Lorenzo Johnson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Emrah Ates Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Emrah Ates Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Richard Vetrano Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Kevin Judge Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Vincent Ciardiello Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Alexander Wancel Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
Stephen Jones Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
Patrick Nozdrovicky Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Duane Atkinson Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2011
Andrew Beirne Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Andrew Beirne Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Philip Rivera Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
Francis Clough Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2011
Joseph Gulotta Captain White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Joseph Gulotta Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Nathan Mole Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2011
Ricardo Lewis Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Martin Gimenez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
David Afanador Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Mark Vazquez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Erek Powers Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2011
Jason Bianchini Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
John Bastedenbeck Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Jennifer Cittadino Police Officer White female Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Robert Roda Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Adnan Radoncic Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Thomas Fusco Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Scott Hamburger Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Robert Henderson Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Robert Henderson Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Patrick Jean Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Annemarie Murphy Sergeant White female Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
James Picicci Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Titus Parham Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2011
Lawrence Fiorello Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Eric Samuels Sergeant Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Eric Samuels Sergeant Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Sekou Bourne Detective Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Joseph Viggiano Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Vitaliy Zelikov Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Vitaliy Zelikov Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Ramon Hernandez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2011
Leon Batson Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2011
Calvin Black Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Brian Donoghue Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Wilfredo Benitez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Terrell Anderson Sergeant Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Terrell Anderson Sergeant Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Daniel Nunez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
James Giamboi Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Patrick Davis Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Charles Cadiz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Brian Nyhus Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Michael Kelly Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Rodney Harrison Deputy Inspector Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2011
Michael Licitra Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Michael Licitra Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2011
Edward Barry Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Carlos Marchena Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2010
Dennis Friendly Detective Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2010
Richard Vetrano Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2010
Kevin Judge 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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