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
Paul White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Hugh Mchugh	Detective	White male	Unknown male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Okera Morrison	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown female, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Dewan Campbell	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown male, 15 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Gary Calhoun	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Marshall	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 65 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Melanie Paganmerritt	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Rudy Anzalone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Paul Palminteri	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Paulik	Police Officer	White male	White female, 39 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Tonica Corlette	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Carlos Pimentel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Matthew Manchester	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Derek Webber	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Orlando	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Derek Webber	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Patrick Norcott	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Luke Denesopolis	Sergeant	White male	White male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Juan Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Lisa Bonsignore	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alexis Ponce	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Adan Munoz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Stephen Sheppard	Police Officer	White male	White male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Santiago Inoa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Steve Higgins	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Francisco Guzman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2014
James Trapasso	Police Officer	White male	Not available male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	White male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Francisco Allende	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Abiola Errico	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic female, 57 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jason Deonarinesingh	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Adam Dumelle	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Shamika Thomas	Police Officer	Black female	American Indian female, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ahsan Zafar	Police Officer	Asian male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Sean Claxton	Sergeant	Black male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nadine Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Daryl Melhado	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 67 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Stephen Loffredo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Clifford Louis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ryan Larson	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Detective	White male	White male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Edward Salthouse	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 63 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Edward Salthouse	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Daniel Guida	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jason Deonarinesingh	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Roman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Schulman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Friedman	Detective	White male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jhonnier Salazar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Sergio Merino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2014
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kieran Tracy	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Kieran Tracy	Police Officer	White male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe Mcdonald	Police Officer	Black male	Refused male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
William Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Carl Pattelli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Tristian Latimore	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jonathan Taveras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
James Giamboi	Police Officer	White male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nelson Nin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Anthony Romero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2014
Brian Schulman	Police Officer	White male	Other Race male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alejandro Rivas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Robert King	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 14 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Fredy Cruz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	White male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Tatiana Cruz	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Other Race male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Daniel Golat	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michele Butera	Police Officer	White male	Not available male	Unsubstantiated	2014
Emmanuel Kwo	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Kamil Pac	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ralph Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 13 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Thomas Reo	Detective	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Scott Blennau	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Emmanuel Kwo	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Mccaffrey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michael Scally	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe Muller	Sergeant	White male	Black male	Unsubstantiated	2014
Dino Tamayo	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Whelan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
David Castro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Worthington	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2014
Gary Leite	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2014
Nelson Nin	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 51 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Essence Jackson	Detective	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2014
Christophe Greiner	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2014
Emmanuel Kwo	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Thomas Guy	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
John Slavinsky	Detective	White male	White male, 56 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
William Schumacher	Police Officer	White male	White male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Mark Scarlatelli	Detective	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Erica Macauda	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Nicholas Neve	Detective	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014

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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.