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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Nicholas Vandyke | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
David Leonardi | Detective | White male | Not available male | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Michael Seiling | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Shaquan Harvin | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Gary Calhoun | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Jared Rothschild | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Andrew Erato | Detective | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Stacyann Vega | Police Officer | Black female | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Vicnia Liz | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Unknown male | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
John Rajan | Sergeant | Asian male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Niles Prince | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 15 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Wilson Quiles | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 41 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Shapiro Lecorps | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
David Russo | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Alberto Angilletta | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Frank Galati | Detective | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Daniel Sbarra | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Michael Pellegrin | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Mark Kistoo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 47 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Brian Nyhus | Sergeant | White male | Unknown male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Albert Rodriguez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Timothy Rizzo | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Christophe Benson | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Donnell Powell | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Daniel Meade | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Alberto Angilletta | Detective | White male | White male, 58 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Bryan Zuccaro | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 41 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Patrick Sullivan | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Scott Sanseverino | Police Officer | White male | White male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Christophe Lawrence | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Michael Eschmann | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Trifon Anagnostos | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 15 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Robert Nugent | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Donald Lee | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Rosa Gonzaleznoa | Detective | Hispanic female | White female, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
John Hall | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Dustin Genco | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Miguel Iglesias | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 51 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Kishon Hickman | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Robin Crucey | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 63 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Emile Provencher | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Denisha Pierre | Police Officer | Black female | Black female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Phillip Atkins | Detective | Black male | Black male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Kevin Martin | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Brian Fleming | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Christophe Iacovides | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Gerard Delprete | Detective | White male | White male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Julio Hernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
William Beattie | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Dominick Bizzarro | Police Officer | White male | White male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Miguel Iglesias | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Charlie Little | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Ronnie Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Christophe Toal | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Ramon Santos | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Michael Cronin | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Sean Downes | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 50 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Gregory Burns | Police Officer | White male | White male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Neil Casey | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Brian Andruszkiewicz | Sergeant | White male | White male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Darrien King | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
Brian Martin | Detective | White male | Black male, 46 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
Devin Long | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Todd Keyes | Police Officer | White male | White male, 43 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Shawn Nandkisure | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 15 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2012 |
John Todaro | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2014 |
Paul Kearon | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2015 |
Daniel Castaldo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Emilio Aponte | Police Officer | Black male | Black male | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Jeffrey Ziman | Police Officer | White male | White male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Christophe Esposito | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Roberto Melendez | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Frank Muirhead | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2011 |
Louis Marinacci | Police Officer | White male | White male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Zoilo Encarnacion | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Zoilo Encarnacion | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Clifford Louis | Sergeant | Black male | Unknown male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2009 |
Paul Marconi | Police Officer | White male | White male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2007 |
Carlos Lozada | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2010 |
Rafael Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 56 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2016 |
Daniel Gasperetti | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
Shameeka Cummings | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
Ryan Puglisi | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Alexis Alvarez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
Orlando Quinones | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
Thomas Dunsing | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
Terrence Blumenberg | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
Scott Lieneck | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Julio Micheli | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Charles Ingrassia | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 17 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
Brian Dobbins | Police Officer | White male | White male, 31 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Dane Stcyr | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 40 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Edward Reardon | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2010 |
Sherwin Ogbewele | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Christophe Breslin | Detective | White male | Hispanic female, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2011 |
Alvin Gomez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2009 |
Adam Dumelle | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2010 |
Daniel Baca | Detective | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2013 |
Luis Claudio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline) | 2012 |
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.