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
Thomas Smith	Captain	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Christopher McCormack	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
William Taylor	Deputy Inspector	White male	White male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Byran Pitts	Detective	Black male	Black male, 61 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Edward Mcbride	Detective	White male	Asian male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Andrew Nash	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jeremy Demarco	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Brian Green	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
David Marconi	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
David Cowan	Detective	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2007
Edward Mcbride	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2006
Andrew Erato	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
James Zozzaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Adam Seidenberg	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Joaquin Camacho	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Matthew Fried	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Robert Simms	Detective	Black male	White male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2008
Aubrey Henry	Detective	Black male	Black male, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Christophe Carlin	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2011
Lowez Walker	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Eugene Jonny	Detective	White male	Black male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Cowan	Detective	White male	Black female, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Louis Dambrosio	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Brian Martin	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Michael Gonzalez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2017
Scott Martin	Detective	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Delcar Savage	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
Joaquin Camacho	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Wilson Verdesoto	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Matthew Fried	Detective	White male	Refused male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Gustavo Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Ivelisse Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Wilmar Mejia	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Carlos Velez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Michael Friedman	Detective	White male	White male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Friedman	Detective	White male	Black male, 14 years old	Exonerated	2016
Jose Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Jose Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2004
Daniel Baca	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Jesus Capo	Detective	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2015
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
James Delumen	Detective	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Eugene Jonny	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Eugene Jonny	Detective	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Stephen Lalchan	Detective	Asian male	Asian male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Andres Libreros	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Julio Lasalle	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Duane Percy	Detective	Black male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Steven Gansrow	Detective	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	White male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Alberto Angilletta	Detective	White male	White male, 58 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Ching Nieh	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Alberto Angilletta	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Ching Nieh	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Nelson Figueroa	Detective	Hispanic male	Refused female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Daniel Baca	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Baca	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Joseph Mcevoy	Detective	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2019
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Bryan Zuccaro	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2008
Mark Scarlatelli	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Delcar Savage	Detective	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Jerry Wolvers	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2016
Tyler Ehrlein	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Steve Lafortune	Detective	Black male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Jaime Arroyo	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Anthony Wright	Detective	Black male	White male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Alex Cruz	Detective	Hispanic male	White male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
David Leonardi	Detective	White male	Not available male	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	White male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Michael Friedman	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2012
Rosa Gonzaleznoa	Detective	Hispanic female	White female, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Dustin Genco	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Daniel Baca	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2012
Samantha Evans	Detective	Black female	Not available	Exonerated	2013
Matthew Zito	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 47 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.