Abuse of Authority: SEARCH (OF PERSON) - 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
Robert Bosland	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Sharif Portee	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Daniel Baca	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Milly Matos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
James Giamboi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2011
William Glynn	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Kevin Mockel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Daniel Davidoff	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Edward Reardon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Terrence Howard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Terrence Howard	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Thomas Alps	Sergeant	White male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2006
Andre Morris	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
Bennett Shelley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Gerard Walker	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Victor Paribello	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2014
Junaid Saeed	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2019
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2009
Junaid Saeed	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Justin Simms	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Louis Villegas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Ariel Eusebio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Louis Villegas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2017
Louis Villegas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Mcloughlin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Ching Nieh	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Hugh Mackenzie	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Miguel Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Juan Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Juan Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Justin Cracchiola	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Marc Fontana	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Joseph Signorile	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Gustavo Ochoa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kyle Stanley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2008
Joshua Valdez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Kristopher Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Angel Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Kevin Mockel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Shameeka Cummings	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Francisco Diaz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Michael Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Gonzalez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2017
Daniel Guida	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph Nicoletti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Titus Parham	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Tonica Corlette	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2018
George Taylor	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Frantz Souffrant	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Orlando Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Frantz Souffrant	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Schlitt	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Christophe Muller	Sergeant	White male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe Muller	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Patrick Jean	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Callinan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2016
Gary Leite	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2018
Gary Leite	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2014
Lanier Glenn	Lieutenant	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Tancredi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Richard Urena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kenneth Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Nicole Gondry	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Shartisia Steward	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jaime Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Jaime Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Michael Corsello	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Heriberto Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joseph Campbell	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Eric Reynolds	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Brian Capers	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Paul Brauer	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2018
Stephanie Cepeda	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Christophe Cunha	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Daniel Roman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nicole Gondry	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Rafael Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Howard Zweben	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Jacy Reese	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Joshua Bienvenue	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Jorge Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
James Argila	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2018
Burt Antoine	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
David Ramirez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Douglas Lopez	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Vincent Calderone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Jorge Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009

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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.