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
Timothy Rizzo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Albert Aronov	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Roy Abounaoum	Police Officer	White male	White male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2013
David Russo	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Tancredo Contreras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Adam Conlin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Belinda Delgado	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Aaron Lohman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kelvin Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Craig Edelman	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert Hawreluk	Police Officer	White male	White male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Russo	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Anis Nikocevic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Julio Micheli	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Franklyn Aizaga	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Dejesus	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Barbara Fischer	Lieutenant	White female	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kenneth Sepulveda	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Louis Marinacci	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Louis Marinacci	Police Officer	White male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Joseph Nicosia	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Ryan Puglisi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Aaron Lohman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Travis Mussaw	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Shawn Nandkisure	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 15 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Daniel Gasperetti	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Michael Gonzalez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Konrad Zakiewicz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Valerie Durets	Police Officer	White female	White male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Kristopher Martin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Shameeka Cummings	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
James Famiano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Kristopher Martin	Police Officer	White male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Kelly	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Shacole Odell	Police Officer	Black female	Other Race male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2012
Luis Claudio	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Joel Rosenthal	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	White male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Cory Smith	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ryan Foy	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
William Rojas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Rivera	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Michael Lazarou	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Trevor Baronette	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
John Gumpel	Sergeant	White male	Asian female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jason Cira	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2012
David Afanador	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Donald Alexandre	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Michael Friedman	Detective	White male	White male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2012
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2012
Hemadeh Fattah	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Stephen Sheppard	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Thomas Diggs	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Sergio Delamota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Chris Palmeri	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mourad Arslanbeck	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Jennings	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rafael Figueroa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Anthony Kotarski	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
David Marconi	Police Officer	White male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Daniel Castronova	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 69 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2012
Jose Collazo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Anzor Kurashvili	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
David Grieco	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rafael Iturralde	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lynn Ruger	Police Officer	White female	White male	Unsubstantiated	2012
Christophe Williams	Police Officer	Black male	White female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Travis Duke	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Exonerated	2012
Steven Lopez	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Yahkeem White	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Philip Picciano	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Kevin Mccarthy	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brian Farrelly	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Manolin Molina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Augello	Police Officer	White male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Shartisia Steward	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Miller	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Stacey Robinson	Police Officer	Black female	Unknown male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lukasz Organistka	Police Officer	White male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2012
Franky Joseph	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Anthony Donato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Musante	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Baca	Detective	Hispanic male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2012
Freddy Tavares	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 67 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mathew Reich	Detective	White male	White female, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Pitkewicz	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
John Musante	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Patrick Craig	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jason Brunson	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 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.