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Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers
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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 |
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Ryan Larson | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Kelvin Peralta | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Justin Delmonico | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Brian Kovarik | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Alexis Ponce | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 14 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Shamika Thomas | Police Officer | Black female | American Indian female, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Carlos Pimentel | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Brian Schulman | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Shawn Moynihan | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 41 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Nadine Burgos | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Deshawn Edmonds | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 43 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
James Giamboi | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Derrick Kreckmann | Police Officer | White male | Not available , 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Derrick Kreckmann | Police Officer | White male | Not available , 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
July Villafana | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Christophe Muller | Sergeant | White male | Black male | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Gary Leite | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Pamela Benites | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Edwin Peguero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Lauren Au | Police Officer | Asian female | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Gerard Delprete | Detective | White male | Asian male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Michael Whooley | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2014 |
Jonathan Glazer | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jonathan Glazer | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Jonathan Glazer | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Paul Palminteri | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Robert Orlando | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Santiago Inoa | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jeffrey Scalf | Detective | White male | Black male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Michael Ardolino | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
William Butler | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jhonnier Salazar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2014 |
Carlos Lozada | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Robert King | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 14 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Jared Rothschild | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Harris Haskovic | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 54 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Joseph Marquez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2014 |
Matthew Manchester | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Francisco Allende | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
James Cleary | Detective | White male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Dalsh Veve | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
James Slavin | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Joseph Bonner | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Eric Konoski | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Ian Gallagher | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Robert Marshall | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 65 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Joseph Bonner | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Scott Zeitler | Police Officer | White male | White male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Nicholas Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Daniel Kern | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Jesus Capo | Detective | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Jose Santory | Sergeant | Hispanic male | White male, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Jose Santory | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Not available | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
David Mercado | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Melanie Paganmerritt | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Gary Capellan | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 53 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Edouard Merant | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Jason Cira | Detective | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Kenneth Sepulveda | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Ruben Guerrero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Joseph Mcevoy | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Joel Crooms | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Philip Tsang | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Hugh Mchugh | Detective | White male | Unknown male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
James Delumen | Detective | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Philip Tsang | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Dominick Vasaturo | Detective | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Dominick Vasaturo | Detective | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Juan Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Joshua Marte | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Shawn Gallagher | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 18 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Mack Lipinski | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Matthew Lombardo | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Iselaine Guichardohermenegi | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Other Race female, 44 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Dwight Powell | Police Officer | Black male | Refused male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Darion Francis | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Mack Lipinski | Detective | White male | Hispanic female, 34 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Rudy Anzalone | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Ronald Robinson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2015 |
Mark Brinadze | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Paul Oconnor | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Thomas Gagliardi | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 56 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Dewan Campbell | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male, 15 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Terrence Howard | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Mark Sinatra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 58 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Anderson Ortiz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Thomas Reo | Detective | White male | Refused male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Pawel Wala | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Ricardo Otero | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Unknown male | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Paul White | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Rashan Lacoste | Detective | Black male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Paul Kearon | Police Officer | White male | Not available male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Christophe Moroni | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 50 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Paul Kearon | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Juan Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Matthew Levy | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Brandon Gembecki | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
John King | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Guy Gargano | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
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.