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
Daniel Fitzpatrick	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2018
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Cory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2015
Daniel Fitzpatrick	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2018
David Creely	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 12 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2008
Peter Ahn	Sergeant	Asian male	Asian female, 63 years old	Exonerated	2017
Khalid Ragab	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2005
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2006
Robert Dominicci	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2018
Elmer Pastran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2018
Frank Recca	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2012
Gabriel Cuadros	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2018
John Donovan	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2005
Nicole Gondry	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2006
Patrick Smith	Police Officer	American Indian male	Black male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2005
Tyler Howe	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2018
Andre Figueiredo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Exonerated	2008
Thomas Gagliardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male	Exonerated	2014
Shawn Gallagher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2007
Todd Keyes	Police Officer	White male	White male, 61 years old	Exonerated	2012
Luis Machado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 59 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male	Exonerated	2010
Elmer Pastran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2017
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2014
Elmer Pastran	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male	Exonerated	2018
Jose Tabora	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2008
Vincenzo Trabolse	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2014
Gabriel Cuadros	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2018
Aleksandr Pasynkov	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Exonerated	2018
Daniel Callinan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Exonerated	2016
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2018
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
Michael Nocerino	Sergeant	White male	Not available male	Exonerated	2019
Matthew Lambert	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Tyler Howe	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2019
Mark Vazquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2010
Luis Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2008
Steven Weiss	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2010
Paul Kearon	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2015
Christophe Aylward	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Philip Tsang	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Theohari Koumniotes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2010
Brian Goldberg	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2010
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2014
Daniel Guida	Lieutenant	White male	Unknown male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2019
Joseph Mcevoy	Detective	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2019
Daniel Callinan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 56 years old	Exonerated	2016
Connor Walsh	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2017
Robert Krohley	Sergeant	White male	White female, 23 years old	Exonerated	2007
Kyron Delarosa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Andre Morris	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2017
Andre Morris	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male	Exonerated	2018
Burt Antoine	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2009
Richard Lavelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2007
Junaid Saeed	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male	Exonerated	2019
Junaid Saeed	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2019
Bryan Zuccaro	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2008
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
Andrew Cummings	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2018
Charles Awani	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2009
Ariel Eusebio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2017
Thomas Trachta	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2018
Ariel Eusebio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2017
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	Refused male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2017
Ariel Eusebio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2017
Nicolas Mahuad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2018
Albert Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2011
Bryan Scheblein	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2018
Edmundo Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2016
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2017
Welington Feliz	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Exonerated	2006
Timothy Brovakos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2008
Anthony Contessa	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2017
Anthony Lustica	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Sergeant	White male	White male, 61 years old	Exonerated	2017
Orlando Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2008
Shacole Odell	Police Officer	Black female	Other Race male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
Lance Walter	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2018
Gary Leite	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2014
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2008
William Schumacher	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Gary Leite	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2018
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2008
Carl Scogmanillo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2010
James Giamboi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2011
Newton Hun	Police Officer	Asian male	White female, 58 years old	Exonerated	2017
Daniel Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Exonerated	2017
Gregory Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2018
Joseph Stynes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2007
Francisco Adames	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2014
Kaz Daughtry	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 38 years old	Exonerated	2008
Michael Smith	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2015
Samuel Hui	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Michael Gonzalez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2017
James Argila	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2018
Michael Friedman	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2012

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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.