Abuse of Authority: SEIZURE OF PROPERTY - The NYPD Files

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Abuse of Authority: Seizure Of Property

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

164

Complaints

167

Allegations

178

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
Dominic Casalino	Sergeant	White male	Not available male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2001
Miguel Iglesias	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Not available female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
Matthew Escudero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2017
Angela Morris	Sergeant	Black female	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Hector Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
John Cascone	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Amylou Giannelli	Detective	White female	Asian female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2019
Eric Robinson	Captain	White male	Asian male, 52 years old	Exonerated	2016
Richard Coccodrilli	Police Officer	White male	Asian male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2003
Michael Cozier	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Michael Cozier	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2019
Raymond Wong	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Herve Francois	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 59 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Wilfredo Benitez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Dervent Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Yael Magori	Lieutenant	White female	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2019
Richard Warner	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2004
Alexander Bobo	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2019
Frank Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Billy Dill	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2019
Philip Fioranelli	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2009
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
William Tergesen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Robert Roda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 62 years old	Exonerated	2008
Floretta Chow	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2001
Johnny Orellana	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2010
Patrick Jean	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Katherine Sepulveda	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2019
John Gogarty	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2005
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 18 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kevin Kavanagh	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2013
Frantz Souffrant	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Angel Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Theohari Koumniotes	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Richard Ernyey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
David Fitchik	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
Ariel Klepadlo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2018
Philip Picciano	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
Ramon Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Michael Lipetri	Inspector	White male	Black female, 51 years old	Exonerated	2015
William Otoole	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Waldron	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
William Waldron	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2008
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
James Zozzaro	Detective	White male	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2018
Mark Dipaolo	Captain	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2007
Andrew Bershad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Michael Licitra	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2004
Eric Single	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2001
Nicholas Garafola	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Nicholas Albergo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2018
Justin Senese	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Keith Wagenhauser	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Filastin Srour	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Charles Arnone	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2018
Leo Bonacasa	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
Jonathan Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Christophe Ward	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Malcolm Freeman	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2001
Christophe Peguero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Odalis Perez	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Jean Francisco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Ronald Remo	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2017
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 66 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2018
Paul Gaglio	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 43 years old	Exonerated	2003
Matthew Bases	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2005
Shuzhen Wong	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Shuzhen Wong	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Joseph Gulotta	Inspector	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2016
Godwin Ngai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2019
Isaac Souchak	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jhovanny Ysabel	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2008
Victor Lara	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2015
Robert Falcone	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Herbert Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Michael Raso	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Julio Delgado	Captain	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Michael Parks	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Junaid Saeed	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mark Ward	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2016
Peter Borukhov	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Gabriel Cuevas	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Delores Mitchell	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michael Napolitano	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Sajjad Kiani	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Nathan Mole	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 68 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Robert Morris	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Joel Roman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Shibu Madhu	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Rachid Benlhoussain	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Odalis Perez	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Angel Andujar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2018
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018

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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.