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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Keith Bryan Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2002
Patrick Davis Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Andrew Bershad Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2002
Paul Deentremont Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2002
John Caruso Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2002
John Essig Deputy Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Benjamin Gottlieb Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2002
David Cheesewright Sergeant Asian male Not available Exonerated 2002
Joseph Dipreta Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Brian Mullen Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Donald Kipp Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Robert Kelly Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2002
John Mcdonnell Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Rodney Harrison Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2002
James Picicci Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Thomas Galati Deputy Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Thomas Galati Deputy Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2002
Anthony Demonte Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2002
Joseph Matthew Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2001
Thomas Alps Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2001
Dustin Genco Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2001
Daniel Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2001
Ischaler Grant Sergeant Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Brian Mcginn Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2001
Frank Vega Captain Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Justin Lenz Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2001
Ischaler Grant Sergeant Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2001
Raymond Jansen Sergeant White male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2001
Edward Colucci Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2001
Joseph Gulotta Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2001
Christophe Valis Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2001
Aluthea Caviness Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2001
Joyce Williams Police Officer Black female Not available Exonerated 2001
Charles Barberi Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2001
Robert Lotufo Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2001
Mark Kurys Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2001
Steven Green Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2001
Brian Mcginn Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2001
John Dorst Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2000
Kevin Gallagher Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2000
James Delumen Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2000
Lawrence Fiorello Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2000
Anthony Quagliariello Detective White male White male, 57 years old Exonerated 2000
Manuel Matos Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2000
Jeannette Brenes Police Officer White female Black female, 42 years old Exonerated 2000
Brian Mcginn Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2000
John Bastedenbeck Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2000
Joseph Matthew Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2000
Deodat Urprasad Sergeant Asian male Black female, 23 years old Exonerated 1999
Bruce Solomon Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 1999
Eddie Lott Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1999
William Powell Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 1999
Michael Baldassano Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 1999
Richard Gibson Sergeant White male Black female, 33 years old Exonerated 1999
Keith Degiorgio Detective White male Not available Exonerated 1998
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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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