The NYPD Files
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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Thomas Reo | Detective | White male | Refused male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Cesar Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Elmer Pastran | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Shawn Gallagher | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 17 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Kyron Delarosa | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Mark Vazquez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 53 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Andre Figueiredo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Ariel Eusebio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Ariel Eusebio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Ariel Eusebio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Cory Smith | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Christophe Wit | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Michael Ernst | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Michael Ernst | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Luis Pena | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Shacole Odell | Police Officer | Black female | Other Race male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Kevin Maloney | Lieutenant | White male | Refused male, 46 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Julio Ramos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Edmundo Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Christophe Aylward | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Lance Walter | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Steven Weiss | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Thomas Gagliardi | Sergeant | White male | Black male | Exonerated | 2014 |
Paul Kearon | Police Officer | White male | Not available male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Andrew Cummings | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Bryan Scheblein | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Charles Awani | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Robert Dominicci | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Matthew Palmieri | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Michael Smith | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Jose Tabora | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Keith Degiorgio | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Timothy Brovakos | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Connor Walsh | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Nikolaos Stefopoulos | Sergeant | White male | White male, 61 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Robert Krohley | Sergeant | White male | White female, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Andre Morris | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Anthony Contessa | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Nikolaos Stefopoulos | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Anthony Lustica | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Albert Rodriguez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
Kelvin Peralta | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Theohari Koumniotes | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Junaid Saeed | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Louis Villegas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Vito Nicoletta | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Thomas Trachta | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
James Argila | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Michael Gonzalez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Daniel Guida | Lieutenant | White male | Unknown male, 37 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Jay Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Burt Antoine | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 47 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Samuel Hui | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Sergio Merino | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Michael Nocerino | Sergeant | White male | Not available male | Exonerated | 2019 |
Joseph Mcevoy | Detective | White male | Black male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Christophe Siani | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male | Exonerated | 2010 |
Bryan Zuccaro | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Orlando Colon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Kevin Finegan | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Gary Leite | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Gary Leite | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Daniel Fitzpatrick | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
William Schumacher | Police Officer | White male | White male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Richard Ernyey | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Brian Goldberg | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Vincenzo Trabolse | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
Hemadeh Fattah | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Nikolaos Stefopoulos | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Robert Cruz | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 41 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Daniel Callinan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 56 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Peter Besse | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Daniel Callinan | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 54 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
James Giamboi | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2011 |
David Sammarco | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 35 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Gabriel Cuadros | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Daniel Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Philip Tsang | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Gregory Vasquez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Carlos Velez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Richard Lavelle | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Mark Landi | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Nicole Gondry | Police Officer | White female | Black male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Todd Keyes | Police Officer | White male | White male, 61 years old | Exonerated | 2012 |
Erek Powers | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Joseph Stynes | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Franky Joseph | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Michael Miller | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2006 |
Jeannette Rivera | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Kaz Daughtry | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Tyler Howe | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Peter Ahn | Sergeant | Asian male | Asian female, 63 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Carl Scogmanillo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 50 years old | Exonerated | 2010 |
Francisco Adames | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
John Galbo | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Newton Hun | Police Officer | Asian male | White female, 58 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Matthew Lambert | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Tyler Howe | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Essence Jackson | Detective | Black male | White male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2014 |
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.