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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Cassase | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Alexander Lopez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Ariel Eusebio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Ariel Eusebio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Edwin Lau | Police Officer | Asian male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Ariel Eusebio | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Jerry Sukhnandan | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jose Caban | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Francine Delvalle | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 27 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Thomas Bates | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Peter Besse | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 14 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Connor Walsh | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 18 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| William Froehlich | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Andre Morris | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Pedro Vallecillo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Alejandra Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Unknown female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Alessandro Negri | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Alejandra Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Unknown female, 39 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Ernesto Bautista | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Michael Becker | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Erick Flores | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| William Palmer | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Michael Becker | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Phillip Johnson | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Darrien King | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Louis Villegas | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Malik Mccloud | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 53 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Michael Barbetto | Police Officer | White male | Unknown female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Tyler Ryan | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Pedro Vallecillo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Darren Sukennikoff | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Darrien King | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 48 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 40 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Not available not described | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christophe Mcdonald | Police Officer | Black male | Unknown male, 19 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Stephen Hillmann | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| David Marconi | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Tony Ip | Police Officer | Asian male | Unknown male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2017 |
| Joel Ayala | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jermaine Scott | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 12 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Nicholas Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Nicholas Rios | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Daniel Nunez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Darren Sukennikoff | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Jose Tejada | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| Matthew Shaw | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| David Poggioli | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Aldo Yubini | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jermaine Scott | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 12 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Lamont Gibson | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Matthew Shaw | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2017 |
| David Poggioli | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jose Cordero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Eric Dym | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Aldo Yubini | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Patrick Jean | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Kimm Cruse | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Stephen Santoro | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| David Poggioli | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Anthony Hyde | Police Officer | White male | Unknown female, 39 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Angelo Pizzarro | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Lamont Gibson | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 33 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Alexander Morales | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Henry Daverin | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 24 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Joseph Campbell | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Joseph Campbell | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Christophe Aylward | Police Officer | White male | Refused male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Triston Trunk | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available , 37 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Brian Hanlon | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Cesar Reyes | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Juan Castillo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Matthew Palmerini | Police Officer | White male | Not available | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Anderson Ortiz | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Stephanie Mazza | Police Officer | White female | Not available male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Charles Senat | Sergeant | Black male | Refused not described, 31 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Stephen Santoro | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 19 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Stephanie Perez | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Black female, 38 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
| Joshua Marte | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown male, 35 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Peter Guido | Sergeant | White male | Unknown male, 34 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Jean Prinston | Police Officer | Black male | Not available male, 46 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Kevin Morgan | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Nikolaos Stefopoulos | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Jack Dagnese | Police Officer | White male | White male, 73 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Anthony Contessa | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Nikolaos Stefopoulos | Sergeant | White male | Other Race female, 42 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Elmer Pastran | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Asian male, 23 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Nikolaos Stefopoulos | Sergeant | White male | White male, 61 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
| Andrew Nash | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jack Dagnese | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Brian Holshek | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Matthew Palmerini | Police Officer | White male | Unknown female, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Alex Cruz | Detective | Hispanic male | White male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Jeffrey Adaszewski | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Matthew Escudero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Unknown female, 39 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
| Hassan Gheith | Police Officer | White male | White male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Matthew Escudero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
| Ronald Remo | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 38 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2017 |
| Philip Smith | Police Officer | White male | Unknown male, 16 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
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.