Abuse of Authority: SEARCH (OF PERSON) - The NYPD Files

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Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)

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

1,332

Complaints

1,708

Allegations

2,047

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
Aaron Lohman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2013
Deshawn Edmonds	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Nercida Cepeda	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Frank Desiderato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kenneth Sepulveda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Russo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Charles Rubenstrunk	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Smith	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Samantha Evans	Detective	Black female	Not available	Exonerated	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Kenneth Gallart	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Albert Aronov	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ryan Galvin	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Dejesus	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Brian Dobbins	Police Officer	White male	White male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Terrence Howard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Francesco Allevato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert Hawreluk	Police Officer	White male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Tomasz Fil	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2013
Quentin Saxon	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Quentin Saxon	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jason Dossantos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Marc Fontana	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Marc Fontana	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Gustavo Ochoa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Harris	Police Officer	White male	White male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Lisaura Skladel	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Lisaura Skladel	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 43 years old	Exonerated	2013
Barbara Fischer	Lieutenant	White female	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Ivelisse Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Hansen	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Craig Edelman	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Eddy Gutierrez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jean Seder	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Belinda Delgado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Radoslaw Terepka	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Tancredo Contreras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Joseph Spina	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Kearney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Adam Conlin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Andre Blake	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Kevin Tresham	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
James Conn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Miriam Lasso	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Vania Bracchetti	Police Officer	White female	Unknown male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
William Neville	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Paul Mckenna	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Julio Micheli	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Fredery Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Carlos Herrera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Garry Lamour	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Trevor Baronette	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Scott Lieneck	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Scott Lieneck	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Douglas Lopez	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Tyrane Isaac	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Blase Mucciariello	Police Officer	White male	White female, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Stephanie Mazza	Police Officer	White female	White female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Alberto Pizarro	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Daniel Castaldo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Raymond Tomins	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Joseph Nicosia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Carlos Cano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Charles Arnone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kwame Kipp	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Fago	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Titus	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Erica Macauda	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
David Castro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nicholas Neve	Detective	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jonathan Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Scott Blennau	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Emmanuel Kwo	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Emmanuel Kwo	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Emmanuel Kwo	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alejandro Valderrama	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Edgar Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Edgar Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Erik Depasquale	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Trapasso	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daryl Melhado	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 67 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Sergio Merino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2014
Fredy Cruz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Michael Mccaffrey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2014

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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.