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
Frank Desiderato	Police Officer	White male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jason Cira	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Burt Antoine	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Kevin Deleon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jorge Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Peter Borukhov	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Richard Urena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Mark Kistoo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Waziri Rumala	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Clifford Louis	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Waziri Rumala	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ezequiel Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2009
Eric Delman	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2009
James White	Detective	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2009
David Cussen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Rikkie Dookie	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Todd Keyes	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Donald Lee	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Theohari Koumniotes	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Vincent Fontana	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Maria Bocachica	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joseph Parchen	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 59 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2009
Daniel Ludemann	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Sean Mchugh	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Julio Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2009
Charles Awani	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Angel Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Alexander Bobo	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Anthony Ronda	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Charles Awani	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2009
Craig Bier	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2009
Steven Gansrow	Detective	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Barbara Fischer	Sergeant	White female	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Stephen Berardi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2009
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joshua Faranda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Steve Tirado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Keith Weber	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Clifford Louis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kevin Whelan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Matthew Buonaspina	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Eric Pena	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Devin Long	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Paul Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Erick Erdaide	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Joshua Valdez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Gustavo Medina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edward Carrasco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2010
John Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Samantha Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Sergio Delamota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
David Afanador	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
David Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2010
Wesley Fradera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ronald Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Sasha Rosen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Bennett Shelley	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Derco	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edward Barry	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Klaebergh Carvajal	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Bennett Shelley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Greaney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2010
Angel Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Greaney	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Ferdi Memedoski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jorge Tavarez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jose Bonilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
William Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Brian Clements	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Edward Reardon	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Matthew Zito	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Milly Matos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	White male	Asian , 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Refused male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Joseph Seminara	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Samantha Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Victor Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Greaney	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Carl Scogmanillo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2010
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frank Altieri	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Elvis Cole	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Joseph Cordones	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Luis Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
David Paray	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Lamont Gibson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ruben Cuesta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010

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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.