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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Jensen Dayle Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 38 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Douglas Carr Police Officer Black male White male, 31 years old Exonerated 2005
Richard Pignatelli Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Roberto Melendez Sergeant Hispanic male Black male, 34 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 25 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Diaz Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Harvin Hart Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Blas Colon Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Bobby Mohip Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Andrew Hatki Lieutenant White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2005
Anthony Lustica Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2005
Michael Ernst Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 40 years old Exonerated 2005
Kevin Mcleish Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Luis Perez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 33 years old Exonerated 2005
Jorge Ulloa Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 33 years old Exonerated 2005
Peter Borukhov Police Officer White male Black female, 36 years old Exonerated 2005
Gregory Pekera Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 43 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Michael Raso Police Officer White male White male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Keith Degiorgio Sergeant White male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2005
Marcelo Razzo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Michael Perry Police Officer White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Matthew Granahan Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Emile Provencher Sergeant White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2005
Rudolph Hall Sergeant Black male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Titus Parham Police Officer Black male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2005
Fabio Nunez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Kenneth Juart Police Officer White male Black male, 45 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Charesse Davis Police Officer Black female Hispanic female, 43 years old Exonerated 2005
Douglas Carr Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 2005
Robert Dress Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Edmund Rumman Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Zoilo Encarnacion Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Andrew Hatki Lieutenant White male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Kwame Kipp Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 38 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Michael Korabel Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 43 years old Exonerated 2005
Patrick Smith Police Officer American Indian male Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2005
Eliezer Caraballo Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 40 years old Exonerated 2005
Jill Puma Police Officer White female Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2005
Ralph Cilento Sergeant White male Black male, 36 years old Substantiated (No Recommendations) 2005
Richard Vetrano Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2006
Dominick Bizzarro Police Officer White male White male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2006
Thomas Casey Sergeant White male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Ralph Cilento Sergeant White male Black female, 17 years old Exonerated 2006
Miguel Alvarez Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Raymond Molloy Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Edward Scali Police Officer White male White male, 35 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Jaime Pedraza Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 45 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Ohmeed Davodian Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 19 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Lawrence Fiorello Sergeant White male White male, 21 years old Exonerated 2006
Frank Sarrica Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 23 years old Exonerated 2006
Michael Scoloveno Police Officer White male White female, 31 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Jean Louis Police Officer Black male Black male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Mike Civil Police Officer Black male Black male, 24 years old Exonerated 2006
Michael Granshaw Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Silvio Schettini Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Richard Warner Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Karanlall Brijbukhan Police Officer Asian male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Emilio Aponte Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2006
Adrian Ashby Sergeant Black male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Kevin Paynter Lieutenant White male Black female, 41 years old Exonerated 2006
Malcolm Freeman Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Ricardo Bocachica Detective Hispanic male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Larry Burnham Lieutenant White male Black male, 28 years old Exonerated 2006
Vitaliy Zelikov Police Officer White male White female, 16 years old Exonerated 2006
Shawn Gallagher Police Officer White male Black male, 17 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Wilmar Mejia Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 38 years old Exonerated 2006
David Barker Police Officer Black male Black female, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Adrian Ashby Sergeant Black male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Erik Lubrano Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
John Donovan Police Officer Asian male White male, 35 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Ralph Cilento Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 21 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
Zoilo Encarnacion Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 53 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Kevin Gallagher Lieutenant White male Black male, 20 years old Exonerated 2006
Kelvin Puello Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 37 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2006
John Caruso Police Officer White male Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
John Caruso Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 19 years old Exonerated 2006
Julio Gonzalez Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 42 years old Exonerated 2006
Leandro Castro Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 40 years old Exonerated 2006
Donald Abrams Sergeant White male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Brian Newberry Police Officer White male Asian male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Kevin Colvin Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Exonerated 2006
Joseph Scialabba Police Officer White male Black male, 44 years old Exonerated 2006
Ivan Kolovic Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 41 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
David Pulice Police Officer White male Black male, 21 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Justin Caballero Police Officer White male Black male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Kevin Devine Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Exonerated 2006
Luis Robles Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 38 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2006
Norman Grandstaff Sergeant White male Asian male, 21 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
Daniel Sbarra Sergeant White male Black male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2006
John Rajan Sergeant Asian male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Justin Cracchiola Police Officer White male Unknown male, 43 years old Exonerated 2007
Justin Cracchiola Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 36 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Gary Messina Lieutenant White male Black female, 28 years old Exonerated 2007
Michael Miller Sergeant White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Jared Tepperman Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2007
Gilbert Barkman Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
John Tancredi Police Officer White male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2007
Joaquin Camacho Detective Hispanic male White male, 18 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
Richard Gibson Lieutenant White male Black male, 25 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2007
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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