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
Shuzhen Wong	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 55 years old	Exonerated	2017
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 66 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2018
Alan Chau	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Ronald Remo	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Shuzhen Wong	Police Officer	Asian female	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Junaid Saeed	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
John Rajan	Sergeant	Asian male	Black female, 25 years old	Exonerated	2008
Godwin Ngai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2019
Shibu Madhu	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2015
Raymond Wong	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 52 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Sajjad Kiani	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2019
Herve Francois	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Robert Simms	Detective	Black male	Other Race male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Alwyn Phillips	Police Officer	Black male	Unknown female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2017
Kimm Cruse	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Frantz Souffrant	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Diery Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2015
Angela Morris	Sergeant	Black female	Not available	Exonerated	2004
Willus Murray	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Dervent Williams	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Alexander Bobo	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2019
Malcolm Freeman	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2001
Patrick Jean	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Michael Parks	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kiesha Lawhorne	Police Officer	Black female	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2017
Kevon Husband	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2017
Douglas Carr	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
Sean Claxton	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 64 years old	Exonerated	2009
Delores Mitchell	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2016
Floretta Chow	Police Officer	Black female	Black male, 42 years old	Exonerated	2001
Travis Brinson	Police Officer	Black male	Other Race female, 67 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Herve Francois	Police Officer	Black male	Black female, 59 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Nathan Mole	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 68 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Billy Dill	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2019
Francis Bryant	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Miguel Iglesias	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Not available female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2017
Wilfredo Benitez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2018
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
Kevin Gwinn	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 70 years old	Exonerated	2018
Frank Amill	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jorge Perdomo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 59 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2013
Nicholas Albergo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2018
Katherine Sepulveda	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2019
Robert Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Angel Colon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Christian Flores	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions)	2019
Yezenia Wagner	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Other Race female, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Johnny Orellana	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Exonerated	2010
Matthew Escudero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2017
Jonathan Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Alex Torres	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Frank Santiago	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Peguero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2017
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2005
Odalis Perez	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Peter Morales	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Jean Francisco	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Chris Aybar	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic female, 38 years old	Exonerated	2016
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 18 years old	Exonerated	2005
Hector Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Asian male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Pedro Almanzar	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White female, 59 years old	Exonerated	2019
Philip Picciano	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Johnny Orellana	Captain	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2019
Roberto Suarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2011
Richard Quinones	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Danny Hernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 44 years old	Exonerated	2007
Ramon Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Antonio Fernandez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Gabriel Feliciano	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2006
Jose Reyes	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2018
Jorge Ulloa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2006
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
Herbert Medina	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2016
Robert Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Julio Delgado	Captain	Hispanic male	Black male, 54 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2019
Jay Rivera	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Luis Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Other Race male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Andrew Bershad	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Gabriel Cuevas	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2019
Andrew Alvarado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2019
Ivelisse Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Hispanic male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Alvin Gomez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Joel Roman	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Federico Martinez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 28 years old	Exonerated	2008
Anthony Baresi	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
John Gogarty	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2005
Kevin Kavanagh	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2013
Thomas Ailman	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2004
Michael Cozier	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Michael Cozier	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 51 years old	Exonerated	2019
Michael Bowman	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2018
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
Philip Fioranelli	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 27 years old	Exonerated	2009

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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.