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
Nicole Gondry	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jerard Seletski	Police Officer	White male	White male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Damon Martin	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 16 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Thomas Cappolla	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Nestor Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 14 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
John Caruso	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2006
Jorge Ulloa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2006
Jason Reynolds	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Carlos Fabara	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Matzinger	Sergeant	White male	Unknown female, 24 years old	Exonerated	2006
Kristy Abbasciano	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Theresa Callahan	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Zoilo Encarnacion	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Zoilo Encarnacion	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Erica Price	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Nestor Velez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Josh Kaveney	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Brian Nyhus	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Jaime Pedraza	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Peter Valentin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Robert Oswald	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jason Cira	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Shaquan Harvin	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Keith Knight	Detective	Black male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Luis Machado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 59 years old	Exonerated	2007
David Cowan	Detective	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Mathew Reich	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Terrence Cane	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Miguel Marte	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2007
William Taylor	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Taylor	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jalin Bulding	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
George Huang	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Paul Brauer	Police Officer	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Hugh Mchugh	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jeannette Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jeannette Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Anthony Russo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Richard Pignatelli	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Steven Finley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Wilson Quiles	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Robert Krohley	Sergeant	White male	White female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Felix Gross	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Adam Seidenberg	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Flavio Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 8 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Jones	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jeannette Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 31 years old	Exonerated	2007
Mack Lipinski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mack Lipinski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jeffrey Ziman	Police Officer	White male	White male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Thomas Casey	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Rolando Carbonell	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Terrell Anderson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Cassandra Matthews	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Mike Civil	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Felix Gross	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mark Vazquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Patrick Sullivan	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Michael Burke	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Mack Lipinski	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Frederic Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2007
Miroslav Maric	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Eschmann	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
James Lukeson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Nicole Gondry	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Claudio Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Greiner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kishon Hickman	Sergeant	Black male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Angelo Cuozzo	Detective	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Willie Artiles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Brian Stassi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jamaal Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2007
William Glynn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Bellagamba	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Gregory Pekera	Sergeant	White male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Andre Arias	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2007
Concepcion Robles	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Dustin Edwards	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Robin Crucey	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 63 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Brian Nyhus	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Marquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael Ernst	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2007
Richard Lavelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2007
John Tancredi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
John Tancredi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Brian Capers	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Patrick Cortright	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Adan Munoz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Angelo Cuozzo	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Frank Lupo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007

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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.