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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Michael White Sergeant Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Essence Jackson Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2012
Leonard Bradley Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Jennifer Lavelle Detective White female Not available Exonerated 2012
Jennifer Lavelle Detective White female Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Michael Demonda Police Officer White male Black male, 18 years old Exonerated 2012
Michael Weber Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Patricio Ovando Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Javier Santos Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Dagoberto Rodriguez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
William Buchanan Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Franklyn Sepulveda Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2012
Anthony Contessa Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Joseph Hayward Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Maria Bocachica Detective Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2012
Michael White Sergeant Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Michael Odonnell Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Christophe Muller Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Dayne Beissel Police Officer White female Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Christophe Muller Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Kieran Creighton Deputy Inspector White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Nicholas Horun Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Vladimir Garcia Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Gabriel Nacelewicz Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Yuseff Hamm Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Eric Perez Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Andrew Fago Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Terrell Anderson Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2012
Joseph Hayward Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Luke Denesopolis Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Joseph Viggiano Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Raymond Tomins Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Raymond Tomins Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Richard Thompson Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Brian Goss Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Patricio Ovando Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Patricio Ovando Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2012
Paul Polemeni Detective White male Black female, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
James Picicci Detective White male Black female, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
James Picicci Detective White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Barbara Fischer Lieutenant White female Not available Exonerated 2012
Annemarie Murphy Sergeant White female Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Annemarie Murphy Sergeant White female Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Annemarie Murphy Sergeant White female Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Alexander Bobo Police Officer Black male Not available Exonerated 2012
Frank Sarrica Detective Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Shawn Wilkinson Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2012
Todd Hansen Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Burt Antoine Sergeant Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
William Schumacher Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
William Tergesen Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Dennis Friendly Detective Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Patrick Dooley Police Officer White male Black female, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Brian Dobbins Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Persio Polanco Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Christophe Owen Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Brian Shevitz Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Shane Killilea Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Anthony Lafemina Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Krishna Tandrian Police Officer Asian male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
John Bastedenbeck Lieutenant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
John Bastedenbeck Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Brian Gill Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Brian Gill Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Jose Dejesus Detective Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Richard Urena Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Christophe Lagrasta Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Dennis Friendly Detective Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Christophe Pasquale Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Sean Mcgrory Sergeant White male Black female, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Adrian Uruci Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Adrian Uruci Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Daquan Bendele Sergeant Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Cory Smith Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Spencer Garrett Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
William Ryan Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Frank Gambina Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Keith Devine Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Florencio Arquer Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Florencio Arquer Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2012
Michael Pomerantz Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Florencio Arquer Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 2012
Anand Bhoj Lieutenant Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Shkelzen Ahmetaj Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Christophe Ward Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Rob Lewis Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 2012
Michael Dimambro Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Scott Henderson Captain Black male Not available Exonerated 2012
Trevor Baronette Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2012
Trevor Baronette Sergeant Black male Not available Exonerated 2012
Kevin Breen Lieutenant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Dion Edwards Detective Black male Not available Exonerated 2012
Henry Lopez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2012
Philip Picciano Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Instructions) 2012
Thomas Ramirez Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 2012
Erica Macauda Police Officer Hispanic female Not available Exonerated 2012
Kevin Judge Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 2012
Robert Reed Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 2011
Humberto Mantuano Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2011
Brian Gill Captain White male Not available Exonerated 2011
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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