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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Camille Williams Police Officer Black female Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Daniel Castillo Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Christophe Ward Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Matthew Dias Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Gary Calhoun Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Alexander Hwang Lieutenant Asian male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Lyudmila Howell Detective Hispanic female Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Sandra Martinez Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2016
Angel Badillo Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Jose Ortiz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Jovan Williams Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Greg Desideri Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Patrick Dooley Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Raymond Ip Sergeant Asian male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Brian Mcgee Inspector White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Starlette Gillespie Detective Black female Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Juan Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Juan Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
William Ryan Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Jeremiah Williams Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2016
Omar Birchwood Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2016
Michael Doyle Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Charles Buglione Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2016
Michael Doyle Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Ching Nieh Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Herman Lai Police Officer Asian male Black male, 14 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
John Ryan Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Joseph Gulotta Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Eliot Arias Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
John Zamot Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Theodore Federoff Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Herminio Baez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Michael Weber Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Michael Fahmy Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2016
James Reilly Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Martin Rowley Police Officer Black male White male, 67 years old Exonerated 2016
Stanley Macnear Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Herminio Baez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Patrick Fyvie Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Alexandros Kalogiros Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Craig Edelman Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Michael Lipetri Chiefs and other ranks White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Jerry Wolvers Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Michael Miller Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Kishon Hickman Lieutenant Black male Not available Exonerated 2016
Scott Cote Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Bryan Carney Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
John Espey Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Adam Dumelle Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Michele Herbst Police Officer White female Not available Exonerated 2016
Christophe Mcgee Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Vitaliy Zelikov Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Christophe Walsh Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Yaris Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Hassan Darwiche Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Rohail Khalid Police Officer Asian male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Paul Prendergast Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Joseph Signorile Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Andre Gayle Police Officer Black female Black female, 81 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2016
Thomas Napolitano Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Rayon Grant Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Andrew Kamna Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Roberto Melendez Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Gerald Cucchiara Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Thomas Geberth Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Matthew Kuhl Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Roberto Melendez Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Edward Mcbride Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Ignazio Debellis Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Frank Ryan Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Courtney Nilan Captain White female Not available Exonerated 2016
John Uske Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Matthew Kuhl Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Roberto Melendez Captain Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Anand Bhoj Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Ricardo Moreno Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Thomas Ramirez Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Tonica Corlette Sergeant Black female Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Harish Mansharamani Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
David Grieco Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Lewellyn Alvarez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Alexander Wancel Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Eric Francis Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Joseph Cruzado Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Tony Cuoco Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Daniel Gasperetti Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Ely Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Brandon Gembecki Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2016
Sophia Rodriguez Police Officer Black female Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Thomas Napolitano Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2016
Eric Robinson Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Frank Desiderato Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Felix Concepcion Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Stephen Jones Detective Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2016
Paul Kearon Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Morgan Sprague Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Alexandros Kalogiros Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Charles Volante Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2016
Sean Turner Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2016
James Lee Lieutenant Asian male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
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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