Abuse of Authority: VEHICLE SEARCH - 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

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
Phillip Johnson	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2017
William Beattie	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Rafael Santos	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2019
David Cordano	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2015
Mark Kurys	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	1999
Jennifer Lavelle	Police Officer	White female	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
William Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2010
William Schumacher	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Leonardo Nimo	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 47 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
William Butler	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Oghenevigh Okrokoto	Detective	Black male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Sean Liscoe	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Clifton Clarke	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2004
Isabelo Adames	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline A)	2015
Thomas White	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2015
Vito Poliseno	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Exonerated	2016
Garrett Taverna	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Exonerated	2018
Adrian Ashby	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2006
Joseph Cruzado	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jens Maldonado	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 42 years old	Exonerated	2008
Kevin Paynter	Lieutenant	White male	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2006
Konstantin Genin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2011
Keith Degiorgio	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2005
Michael Alfieri	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Stephen Allocca	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2018
Cesar Polanco	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 21 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Gilbert Barkman	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Michael Ingram	Detective	Black male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Elliot Colon	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 35 years old	Exonerated	2013
Michael Lennihan	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2004
Jose Ortiz	Lieutenant	Hispanic male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
William Sommer	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 36 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2007
Gilbert Barkman	Sergeant	White male	Black female, 39 years old	Exonerated	2010
Thomas Ailman	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Jorge Ulloa	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2005
Robert Roda	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 40 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Alexander Grandstaff	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2002
Richard Romance	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2014
Eric Pena	Police Officer	Asian male	Black female, 22 years old	Exonerated	2007
Michael Manzolillo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Herbert Martin	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2002
Christophe White	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2009
Richard Pignatelli	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2005
Angela Morris	Sergeant	Black female	Black female, 41 years old	Exonerated	2007
Christopher McCormack	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2003
Anthony Hyde	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Christopher McCormack	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Exonerated	2004
Jose Bonilla	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black female, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2007
Robert Nugent	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 31 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Emile Provencher	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2005
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Exonerated	2007
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 53 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Phillip Atkins	Detective	Black male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Sasha Rosen	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2009
Larry Burnham	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Exonerated	2006
Nikolaos Stefopoulos	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Exonerated	2008
Brian Depalo	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Natasha Friday	Sergeant	Black female	Black male, 44 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2008
Gregory Vasquez	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2013
Jason Harris	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Jason Harris	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2010
Michael Kelly	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 49 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Delcar Savage	Detective	Hispanic female	Black female, 53 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline B)	2015
James Mccullough	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2009
Sean Mchugh	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 50 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Thomas Woods	Detective	White male	Black female, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2014
Jose Ortiz	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 61 years old	Unsubstantiated	2008
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2004
Patrick Jean	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 55 years old	Unsubstantiated	2017
Daniel Sbarra	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2006
Mark Xylas	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Zamot	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 33 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2008
Mark Xylas	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 21 years old	Exonerated	2015
Jean Louis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2006
Patrick Cortright	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Patrick Cortright	Deputy Inspector	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2016
Ioana Matiuta	Police Officer	White female	Black female, 54 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2017
Timothy Finn	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 48 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
John Hoffman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2000
Jacy Reese	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Aaron Lohman	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2009
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2012
Matthew Mccoy	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Eric Konoski	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2009
Niles Prince	Sergeant	Black male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Michael Fahmy	Detective	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016
Michael Calle	Police Officer	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2018
Junaid Saeed	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2019
Charles Cavallaro	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Substantiated (Formalized Training)	2016
Rosa Gonzaleznoa	Detective	Hispanic female	Black male, 46 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Justin Simms	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 34 years old	Exonerated	2016
Gerald Stlouis	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
David Sammarco	Police Officer	White male	Black female, 35 years old	Exonerated	2008
Soney Varghese	Police Officer	Asian male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2017
Wilson Quiles	Sergeant	Hispanic male	Black male, 38 years old	Unsubstantiated	2007
Joe Green	Police Officer	Black male	Black male, 18 years old	Unsubstantiated	2010
Gary Messina	Lieutenant	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Exonerated	2003
Matthew Cahill	Sergeant	White male	Black male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Christophe Brower	Police Officer	White male	Black male, 41 years old	Unsubstantiated	2019

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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.