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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 |
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Thomas Ailman | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Nicholas Albergo | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Pedro Almanzar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White female, 59 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Andrew Alvarado | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Frank Amill | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Angel Andujar | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 49 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Charles Arnone | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 48 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Albert Aronov | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 53 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Adrian Ashby | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Chris Aybar | Police Officer | Hispanic female | Hispanic female, 38 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Anthony Baresi | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Matthew Bases | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Andrew Beirne | Police Officer | White male | White male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2008 |
Wilfredo Benitez | Detective | Hispanic male | Black male, 23 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
Rachid Benlhoussain | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 28 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2017 |
Andrew Bershad | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2002 |
Alexander Bobo | Sergeant | Black male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Ronald Bolte | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Leo Bonacasa | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2018 |
Peter Borukhov | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Michael Bowman | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 27 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Travis Brinson | Police Officer | Black male | Other Race female, 67 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2008 |
Francis Bryant | Sergeant | Black male | Hispanic male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2012 |
William Buchanan | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2002 |
Matthew Cahill | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline B) | 2015 |
Douglas Carr | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 31 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Dominic Casalino | Sergeant | White male | Not available male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2001 |
John Cascone | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 30 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Keith Chatterton | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Alan Chau | Sergeant | Asian male | Black female, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
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 male, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2018 |
Floretta Chow | Police Officer | Black female | Black male, 42 years old | Exonerated | 2001 |
Robert Clark | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic male, 44 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Sean Claxton | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 64 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Brian Clements | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Richard Coccodrilli | Police Officer | White male | Asian male, 28 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Angel Colon | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black female, 54 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Michael Cozier | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Michael Cozier | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 49 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Kimm Cruse | Police Officer | Black male | Hispanic male, 35 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2013 |
Gabriel Cuevas | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Henry Daverin | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Ignazio Debellis | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 53 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Julio Delgado | Captain | Hispanic male | Black male, 54 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2019 |
James Dengate | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2006 |
Billy Dill | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 20 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Mark Dipaolo | Captain | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Richard Ernyey | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 44 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2015 |
Matthew Escudero | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Not available male, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Andrew Fago | Detective | White male | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2013 |
Robert Falcone | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2003 |
Gabriel Feliciano | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 40 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2006 |
Antonio Fernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic male, 39 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2006 |
Brian Finnerty | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic female, 26 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2018 |
Philip Fioranelli | Police Officer | White male | Black female, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2009 |
Lawrence Fiorello | Sergeant | White male | White male, 28 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
David Fitchik | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2018 |
David Fitchik | Police Officer | White male | Other Race female, 40 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Christian Flores | Sergeant | Hispanic male | Other Race male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2019 |
Timothy Fox | Lieutenant | White male | Hispanic male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2019 |
Jean Francisco | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 37 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2015 |
Herve Francois | Police Officer | Black male | White male, 23 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2006 |
Herve Francois | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 59 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2004 |
Malcolm Freeman | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2001 |
Michael Gagliardi | Police Officer | White male | Other Race male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Paul Gaglio | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 43 years old | Exonerated | 2003 |
Nicholas Garafola | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 39 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2006 |
Amylou Giannelli | Detective | White female | Asian female, 25 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
William Glynn | Police Officer | White male | White male, 58 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
William Glynn | Police Officer | White male | White male, 58 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2005 |
John Gogarty | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Alvin Gomez | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Black male, 38 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2009 |
Joseph Gulotta | Inspector | White male | Black male, 36 years old | Exonerated | 2016 |
Kevin Gwinn | Police Officer | Hispanic male | White male, 70 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Daniel Haggerty | Sergeant | White male | Unknown male, 18 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2018 |
Christophe Hassan | Sergeant | White male | Hispanic female, 22 years old | Exonerated | 2019 |
Andrew Hatki | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 29 years old | Exonerated | 2005 |
Christophe Haws | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 21 years old | Substantiated (Command Discipline A) | 2016 |
Danny Hernandez | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Hispanic female, 44 years old | Exonerated | 2007 |
Andrew Ho | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 22 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2014 |
Ryan Hoffmann | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 54 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Kevon Husband | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 34 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Miguel Iglesias | Lieutenant | Hispanic male | Not available female, 33 years old | Exonerated | 2017 |
Patrick Jean | Police Officer | Black male | Black male, 55 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2017 |
Kenneth Juart | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 45 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2005 |
Kevin Kavanagh | Sergeant | White male | Black male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2013 |
Sajjad Kiani | Police Officer | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Substantiated (Formalized Training) | 2019 |
Ariel Klepadlo | Police Officer | White male | Black male, 26 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2018 |
Theohari Koumniotes | Sergeant | White male | Black female, 47 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2016 |
Mark Landi | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 29 years old | Substantiated (Instructions) | 2005 |
Victor Lara | Police Officer | Hispanic male | Black male, 24 years old | Substantiated (Charges) | 2003 |
Kiesha Lawhorne | Police Officer | Black female | Hispanic male, 20 years old | Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) | 2017 |
Michael Licitra | Lieutenant | White male | Black male, 19 years old | Exonerated | 2004 |
Michael Linder | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 32 years old | Exonerated | 2018 |
Michael Lipetri | Inspector | White male | Black female, 51 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Gregory Lomangino | Police Officer | White male | Hispanic male, 16 years old | Unsubstantiated | 2011 |
Diery Louis | Police Officer | Black male | Black female, 27 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
Shibu Madhu | Sergeant | Asian male | Black male, 30 years old | Exonerated | 2015 |
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.