Abuse of Authority: SEARCH (OF PERSON) - 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
Omar Birchwood	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Charlie Little	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Carlos Lozada	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Freddy Dominguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Marcin Drozniak	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Thomas Decker	Detective	White male	White male	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jorge Tavarez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Waliur Rahman	Detective	Asian male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Richard Lavelle	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jaysen Basnight	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	White male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Albert Jackson	Detective	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (No Recommendations)	2010
Louis Guglielmo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Lamont Gibson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frank Amill	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Devaney	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Shaniqua Clark	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Toal	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Joshua Valdez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Nicholas Norris	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Shante Terrell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Elvis Cole	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Damico	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Samantha Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jose Bonilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ryan Larson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 65 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Stephen Dimassa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Stephen Dimassa	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ferdi Memedoski	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frank Muirhead	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Alvarado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Matthew Pena	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2010
Martin Costello	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jared Tepperman	Detective	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2010
Bennett Shelley	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Bennett Shelley	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Mark Kistoo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Alexis Dejesus	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
John Mejia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Mark Kistoo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Liam Ohara	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Esposito	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Brian Goldberg	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2010
Paul Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Theohari Koumniotes	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2010
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Brian Coffey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Richard Tarver	Police Officer	Black male	Black male	Substantiated (Instructions)	2010
Johnny Mitchell	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Maryann Lodico	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Brian Donoghue	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Sandra Mamanicampos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Steven Weiss	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2010
Jaime Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Jose Garcia	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Angelo Pizzarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Carl Scogmanillo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Nocerino	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 34 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
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male	Exonerated	2010
Frantz Souffrant	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frantz Souffrant	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ronald Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 42 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Jelson Goyco	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2010
Sasha Rosen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Christophe Beckett	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Waziri Rumala	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Refused male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Matthew Palmerini	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jennifer Laskykuehn	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jose Acevedo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Gerald Cucchiara	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ted Holway	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Orlando Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Orlando Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
William Buchanan	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Ruben Cuesta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
William Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Alfredo Brewster	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Kevin Maloney	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Erik Lubrano	Sergeant	White male	Asian , 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Victor Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Jose Bonilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Samantha Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Samantha Cabrera	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Edward Carrasco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2010
Erick Erdaide	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Devin Long	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Gustavo Medina	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2010
Angel Gonzalez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Daniel Zollo	Sergeant	White male	Black 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.