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
Ruben Guerrero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Juan Ortiz	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2015
Paul Farella	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2015
Anis Nikocevic	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2015
Robert Mciver	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Philip Vaccarino	Detective	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
John Keane	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Robert King	Sergeant	White male	White female, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2015
Washington Zurita	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Alfieri	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2014
Richard Charles	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Johnpaul Vinculado	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 32 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Pete Massa	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2014
Gerard Delprete	Detective	White male	White male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jean Seder	Police Officer	Hispanic female	Black female, 54 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Paul Palminteri	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2014
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Francisco Allende	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Dean Campbell	Detective	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Elvis Cole	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Ryan Habermehl	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2014
Mike Civil	Detective	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
John Todaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Kevin Judge	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Anthony Peters	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2014
Stephen Sheppard	Police Officer	White male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Sandy Marrero	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 52 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2014
Terrence Howard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Rudy Dominguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Brian Ramirez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Carl Pattelli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Matthew Escudero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Christophe Reilly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Malik Mccloud	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Adrian Ramos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
William Ditomaso	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2014
Tristian Latimore	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Robert Kelly	Sergeant	White male	White female, 48 years old	Exonerated	2014
Seth Lynch	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Shaquanna White	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 31 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Terrence Howard	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 31 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2014
Keith Beddows	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Darrien King	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2014
Matthew Escudero	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Michael Scally	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joseph Fernandez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Seth Lynch	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 50 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Richard Romance	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2014
Michael Dannecker	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 45 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Andrew Fago	Detective	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Jamaal Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
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
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Andrew Ho	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Stephen Polesovsky	Police Officer	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Anthony Wright	Police Officer	Black male	White male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 60 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2013
Craig Edelman	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Leonardi	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Vaughan Ettienne	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Steven Degree	Sergeant	Black male	Hispanic male, 55 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
Mauricio Thomas	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Frank Desiderato	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Winston Willabus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 44 years old	Exonerated	2013
Robert Kelly	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
James Dennedy	Captain	White male	Hispanic male	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Roman Goris	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Edward Barry	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kevin Kavanagh	Sergeant	White male	White male, 30 years old	Exonerated	2013
Emile Provencher	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jimmy Clerge	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Angel Vasquez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mark Dibenedetto	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 38 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Jamaal Miller	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Thomas Diggs	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Francis Bryant	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2013
Tancredo Contreras	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Hispanic male	Unsubstantiated	2013
Mark Dibenedetto	Sergeant	White male	Refused male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Kwame Kipp	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jose Peinan	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Sergio Delamota	Police Officer	Hispanic male	White male, 33 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
Robert Bracero	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2013
Yves Brathwaite	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 20 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Joseph Marquez	Detective	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Trevor Baronette	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2013
Christophe Schlanger	Lieutenant	White male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2013
Forrest Hirsch	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2013
Edgar Clases	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 56 years old	Unsubstantiated	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.