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
Gene Etoria	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2004
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Not available male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Dmitry Brush	Sergeant	White male	Not available female, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Richard Hyde	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2001
Shaquan Harvin	Police Officer	Black male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Michele Herbst	Police Officer	White female	Not available female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Carlos Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2008
Edward Mcbride	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2006
Richard Mezzatesta	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Richard Mezzatesta	Sergeant	White male	Asian male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
Gerald Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Sean Mccarthy	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Lipetri	Captain	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2007
Jennifer Lavelle	Detective	White female	Black female, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Richard Dixon	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Alvin Pizarro	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Dennis Russo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2006
Martin Toczek	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2011
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2010
Duane Atkinson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Keith Beddows	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Jennifer Lavelle	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Anthony Andino	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Cronin	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Thomas Geberth	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Osvaldo Nunez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Sanchez	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Kelvin Peralta	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Pete Massa	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2014
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2005
Daphney Pamphile	Police Officer	Black female	Black female	Unsubstantiated	2009
Elijah Boyle	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Kevin Kavanagh	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2010
Merlyn Bermudez	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kevin Maloney	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Michael White	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Kevin Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2016
Mark Ward	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Craig Edelman	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Miguel Alvarez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Christophe Siani	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2008
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Daniel Gerardi	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2018
Charles Awani	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 42 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Jean Seder	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Steven Green	Captain	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Steven Green	Captain	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Erlene Wiltshire	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Barbara Arroyo	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Tanisha Greenaway	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 35 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Frank Galati	Detective	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Kevin Deleon	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2016
Larry Meyers	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Terrence Howard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Je Chai	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 46 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Nelson Ayala	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Miguel Pierre	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Kieran Tracy	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2013
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Bowman	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2018
Thomas Woods	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Exonerated	2006
Erek Powers	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Francis Bryant	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2013
Paul Dubrosky	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2012
Blas Colon	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 46 years old	Exonerated	2009
Brenton Cole	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Daphney Pamphile	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2013
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Gabrielle Walls	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
Kenneth Juart	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Richard Hyde	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Martin Cunningham	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Jorge Rodriguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Roman Goris	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Martin Cunningham	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Elliot Colon	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2011
Christophe Dede	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Gonzalez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Maribel Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Maribel Burgos	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 58 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Matthew Delaney	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Thomas Geberth	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Michael Mccarthy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019
Timothy Schultz	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Stephanie Cepeda	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black male, 12 years old	Unsubstantiated	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.