Abuse of Authority: STRIP-SEARCHED - The NYPD Files

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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

399

Complaints

484

Allegations

556

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
Kevin Judge	Lieutenant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2011
Diana Pichardo	Sergeant	Hispanic female	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jeffrey Fitterman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael Raso	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2011
Jorge Tavarez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Francis Bryant	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Konrad Zakiewicz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2011
Michael Pitkewicz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kevin Judge	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2011
Nicholas Vandyke	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Pedro Bobe	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Francisco Perez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 55 years old	Exonerated	2012
John Parente	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2012
Kristopher Martin	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Derek Almeida	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Tancredo Contreras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Paul Prendergast	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2012
Erick Flores	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Mark Ward	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Thomas Passolo	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Kendrick Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Richard Browne	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Carlos Silva	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Paul Prendergast	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2012
Lowez Walker	Detective	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Rafael Iturralde	Detective	Hispanic male	Black female, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Daniel Castronova	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 62 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jose Peinan	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brian Martin	Detective	White male	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Donald Sehl	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Starlette Gillespie	Police Officer	Black female	White female, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Oconnell	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2012
Darryl Mack	Sergeant	Black male	Black female, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ignazio Conca	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2012
Troy Luis	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2012
Ignazio Conca	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Ignazio Conca	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 44 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Paul Dubrosky	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2012
Christophe Lagrasta	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Ricardo Bocachica	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Johnpaul Slater	Detective	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Marlon Wright	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Eric Dym	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2012
Freddy Dominguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Alberto Angilletta	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jennifer Lavelle	Detective	White female	Black female, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2013
Sergio Delamota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kwame Kipp	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mauricio Thomas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mark Dibenedetto	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mark Dibenedetto	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
James Dennedy	Captain	White male	Hispanic male	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Vincenzo Trabolse	Police Officer	White male	Refused male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Charles Ingrassia	Detective	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Joel Gomez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Bruce Ceparano	Lieutenant	White male	White male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Dmitry Brush	Sergeant	White male	Not available female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert Kelly	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Yves Brathwaite	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 20 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Trevor Baronette	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2013
Tyrane Isaac	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Forrest Hirsch	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2013
Jose Peinan	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Emile Provencher	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2013
Tancredo Contreras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Christophe Schlanger	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2013
Francis Bryant	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2013
Stephen Polesovsky	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mark Dibenedetto	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Roman Goris	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Erik Nelson	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Mchugh	Detective	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Martinez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Unknown male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Craig Edelman	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jamaal Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Kevin Kavanagh	Sergeant	White male	White male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2013
Edward Barry	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jimmy Clerge	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2013
Thomas Diggs	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Frank Desiderato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2013

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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.