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
Emilio Melendez	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2005
Peter Ievolo	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2005
Matthew Francis	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Query	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Paul Mcmahon	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Colleen Donohue	Police Officer	White female	Hispanic female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Joseph Hickey	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
John Hopkins	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 47 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 31 years old	Exonerated	2005
John Hopkins	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic female, 19 years old	Exonerated	2005
Paul Pizzuta	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Melvin Moultrie	Police Officer	Black male	Hispanic male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Vincent Fontana	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Langlois	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Flavio Rodriguez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
David Cheesewright	Sergeant	Asian male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2005
Brian Gill	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2005
John Moynihan	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2005
Johnny Lawrence	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2005
Nadia Morant	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2005
Keith Degiorgio	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Freddy Dominguez	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2005
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Francisco Perez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Kevin Maloney	Sergeant	White male	Unknown male, 18 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Kevin Maloney	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Peter Ievolo	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Hector Rodriguez	Detective	Hispanic male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Felix Espinal	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2004
Gene Etoria	Sergeant	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2004
Raymond Festino	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 32 years old	Exonerated	2003
Ernest Morales	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2003
Thomas Milano	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Gerald Williams	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
David Nisthaus	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Paul Deentremont	Captain	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Edwin Martinez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Angel Arroyo	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Hispanic female, 43 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Christophe Lawrence	Sergeant	White male	Not available male, 17 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Richard Currao	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 19 years old	Unsubstantiated	2002
Kevin Matthews	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2002
Edward Barry	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Exonerated	2001
Thomas Galati	Captain	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Exonerated	2001
Richard Hyde	Detective	White male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2001
Kevin Gallagher	Sergeant	White male	Hispanic male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Richard Hyde	Detective	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Osvaldo Nunez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Kevin Gallagher	Sergeant	White male	Other Race male, 16 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Gary Denezzo	Detective	White male	White female, 36 years old	Unsubstantiated	2001
Paul Mcmahon	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 73 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Carl Roadarmel	Detective	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2000
Marie Smith	Police Officer	Black female	Black female, 51 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2000
Robert Delaney	Detective	White male	Black male, 17 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000

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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.