Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search

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
981
Complaints
1,170
Allegations
1,405

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
Jonathan Taveras Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 51 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Vito Poliseno Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2016
David Lamarre Police Officer Black male Black male, 33 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Sandra Martinez Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Tomasz Pulawski Police Officer White male Asian male, 21 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Nelson Figueroa Detective Hispanic male Refused female, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Charlie Harvell Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2016
Daniel Dallemand Sergeant Black male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Brian Muldowney Police Officer White male White male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Timothy Gaven Detective White male Other Race male, 24 years old Exonerated 2016
Domenick Lagomarsine Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Frank Baldo Police Officer White male Unknown male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Daniel Guida Sergeant White male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2016
Mathew Reich Detective White male Black female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Mathew Reich Detective White male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2016
Paul Palminteri Police Officer White male Black male, 54 years old Exonerated 2016
Joel Ayala Police Officer Hispanic male Unknown male Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Ryan Hoffmann Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2016
Michael Romeo Police Officer White male American Indian male, 45 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
David Quattrocchi Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Philip Vaccarino Detective White male Black female, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Henry Daverin Sergeant White male Black male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
William Pugliese Police Officer White male Black male, 48 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Steve Lafortune Detective Black male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Ryan Hoffmann Police Officer White male Black male, 34 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2016
Matthew Demaio Police Officer White male White male, 55 years old Exonerated 2016
Matthew Demaio Police Officer White male Black male, 44 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2016
Vicente Vivar Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2016
Daryl Melhado Sergeant Black male Other Race female, 25 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2016
Anthony Cassase Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Daniel Campbell Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Brian Doherty Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
David Grieco Sergeant White male Black male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Heinz Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Exonerated 2017
Michael Heinz Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Exonerated 2017
Brian Holshek Lieutenant White male Black male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Brian Holshek Lieutenant White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Laborde Police Officer Black male Black female, 31 years old Exonerated 2017
Andrew Nash Detective White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Stephen Lalchan Detective Asian male Asian male, 27 years old Exonerated 2017
Triston Trunk Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2017
Triston Trunk Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 41 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Miroslav Maric Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 37 years old Exonerated 2017
Miroslav Maric Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Michael Barbetto Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Lawrice Crawford Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2017
Aleksandr Pasynkov Sergeant White male White male, 34 years old Exonerated 2017
Gabriel Cuadros Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 34 years old Exonerated 2017
Stephanie Mazza Police Officer White female Other Race male, 35 years old Exonerated 2017
Elmer Pastran Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Patrick Jean Police Officer Black male Black male, 55 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Anthony Hyde Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Konstantin Panagiotopoulos Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Antoine Gilkes Police Officer Black male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2017
Phillip Johnson Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Brian Bang Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 37 years old Exonerated 2017
Aleksandr Kovalenko Sergeant White male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Noel Alphonso Police Officer Black male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Kevin Nicoll Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Exonerated 2017
Wojciech Czech Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
John Katehis Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 12 years old Exonerated 2017
Brian Mahon Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Anthony Lamberti Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Joseph Sotira Police Officer White male Black male, 43 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Francine Delvalle Police Officer Hispanic female Black female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Jack Dagnese Police Officer White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2017
Jack Dagnese Police Officer White male White male, 73 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Michael Gagliardi Police Officer White male Other Race male, 36 years old Exonerated 2017
Michael Whelan Sergeant White male Hispanic female, 26 years old Exonerated 2017
Hector Figueroa Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 27 years old Substantiated (Command Lvl Instructions) 2017
Mayko Matos Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 31 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
William Froehlich Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
John Katehis Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Exonerated 2017
Soney Varghese Police Officer Asian male Black male, 45 years old Exonerated 2017
Patrick Reilly Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Patrick Reilly Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 36 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
Kiesha Lawhorne Police Officer Black female Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Joshua Marte Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Bryan Polster Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Angelo Pizzarro Detective Hispanic male Black male, 45 years old Exonerated 2017
Sean Collins Police Officer White male Black female, 30 years old Exonerated 2017
Isaac Souchak Police Officer White male Black female, 27 years old Exonerated 2017
Thomas Mccue Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 33 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Oscar Nunez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Joseph Mcevoy Detective White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2017
Stephen Hillmann Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Joel Ayala Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Daniel Guida Sergeant White male Black male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2017
Julio Meyreles Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2017
Jeffrey Liu Sergeant Asian male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Thomas Bates Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 34 years old Exonerated 2017
Mark Brinadze Detective White male White male, 19 years old Exonerated 2017
Robert Gallagher Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2017
Ioana Matiuta Police Officer White female Black female, 54 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
David Velez Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 25 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2017
Abiola Browne Police Officer Black female Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
John Londono Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
George Taylor Sergeant White male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2017
Daniel Nunez Police Officer Hispanic male Black female, 26 years old Exonerated 2017
Louis Villegas Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 20 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2017
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.
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