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This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date.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
Anthony Wright Detective Black male White male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Louis Marinacci Police Officer White male White male, 38 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Jovanna Woloski Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Mathew Reich Detective White male Unknown male, 56 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Thomas Reo Detective White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Charles Gove Police Officer White male Black female, 33 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2014
Mathew Reich Detective White male White male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Richard Vetrano Lieutenant White male Black female, 26 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Anil Jacob Police Officer Asian male Black male, 44 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Matthew Mauro Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Gagliardi Police Officer White male Black male, 44 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Michael Whooley Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2014
Emmanuel Kwo Police Officer Black male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Robert Kelly Sergeant White male White female, 48 years old Exonerated 2014
Justin Ellis Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Susana Ventura Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 29 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Wilson Verdesoto Police Officer Hispanic male Black male Unsubstantiated 2014
Brian Volpi Police Officer White male Black male, 39 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Khandakar Abdullah Sergeant Asian male Hispanic male, 38 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Matthew Bourbeau Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 27 years old Exonerated 2014
Derek Sambolin Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2014
Derek Sambolin Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 35 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Washington Zurita Lieutenant Hispanic male American Indian male, 53 years old Exonerated 2014
Shamika Thomas Police Officer Black female Black male, 54 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Susana Ventura Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 29 years old Exonerated 2014
Matthew Lewis Police Officer White male Black male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Elvis Alcivar Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 21 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Derek Webber Police Officer White male Other Race male, 39 years old Substantiated (Instructions) 2014
Jonathan Glazer Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Anatoli Eltsov Police Officer White male White male, 36 years old Exonerated 2014
Michael Ardolino Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 32 years old Exonerated 2014
George Katris Detective White male Asian male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Steve Crozier Sergeant White male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Jonathan Glazer Police Officer White male Black male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Mobeen Yasin Police Officer Asian male Black male, 25 years old Exonerated 2014
Christophe Burton Police Officer Black male Black male, 35 years old Exonerated 2014
Adnan Radoncic Sergeant White male Black male, 34 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Dervent Williams Sergeant Black male Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Rafael Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Rafael Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 22 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Brittany Mccarthy Police Officer White female Black male, 31 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Mark Scarlatelli Detective White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Robert Mciver Police Officer Black male Black male, 32 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Daniel Golat Police Officer White male Black male, 44 years old Exonerated 2014
Matthew Fried Sergeant White male Black male, 21 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
William Schumacher Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 32 years old Exonerated 2014
Thomas Fitzgerald Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 20 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2014
Brian Worthington Police Officer Black male Hispanic male, 20 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2014
Ted Holway Police Officer White male White male, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Juan Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic female, 32 years old Exonerated 2014
Michael Carleo Police Officer White male Black male, 46 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Jack Wu Sergeant Asian male Asian male, 25 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Charles Arnone Police Officer White male Black male, 50 years old Exonerated 2014
Maribel Collado Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 27 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Adam Conlin Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 30 years old Exonerated 2014
Kyle Stanley Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 34 years old Exonerated 2014
Vincenzo Trabolse Police Officer White male Black male, 56 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Kyle Stanley Police Officer White male Asian male, 19 years old Exonerated 2014
Jay Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Asian male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Stephen Lalchan Police Officer Asian male Black male, 17 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Richard Romance Sergeant White male Black male, 26 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline B) 2014
Emilio Ortega Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 24 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Daniel Watson Sergeant White male White male, 47 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Jaysen Basnight Police Officer Black male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2014
Jonathan Kalman Police Officer White male Black male, 56 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Doreyda Munoz Police Officer Hispanic female Black male, 50 years old Exonerated 2014
Mike Civil Detective Black male Hispanic male, 56 years old Exonerated 2014
James Baez Detective Hispanic male White female, 49 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Doreyda Munoz Police Officer Hispanic female Hispanic male, 28 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Vincent Ciardiello Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 44 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Joseph Dalbero Police Officer White male Refused male, 39 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Jorge Sanabria Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 42 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2014
Anton Bartoldus Police Officer White male White male, 26 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Peter Curran Sergeant White male Black male, 22 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Gary Leite Police Officer White male Black male, 26 years old Exonerated 2014
Brian Kovarik Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 50 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Thomas Smith Lieutenant White male Black female, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Martin Cunningham Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 30 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Mark Dibenedetto Sergeant White male Black male, 56 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Andrew Ho Police Officer Asian male Black male, 22 years old Exonerated 2014
Christophe Muller Sergeant White male Black male, 21 years old Exonerated 2014
Omar Elsayed Police Officer Hispanic male Black male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Jay Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Hispanic male, 34 years old Exonerated 2014
Davon Alston Sergeant Black male Hispanic male, 32 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Joseph Cruzado Sergeant White male Other Race male, 23 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Michael Odonnell Police Officer White male Black male, 20 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Anthony Biondolillo Police Officer White male Black male, 31 years old Exonerated 2014
Jonathan Glazer Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
John Ryan Sergeant White male Black male, 19 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Gregory Tloczkowski Police Officer White male Black male, 35 years old Substantiated (Charges) 2014
Vincent Dima Police Officer White male Refused male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Nikolaos Stefopoulos Detective White male White male, 44 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Pedro Almanzar Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 60 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Jonathan Glazer Police Officer White male Black male, 27 years old Exonerated 2014
Jason Bianchini Police Officer Hispanic male White male, 25 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Jaysen Basnight Police Officer Black male Black male, 39 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline) 2014
Jonathan Glazer Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 29 years old Unsubstantiated 2014
Walter Warkenthien Police Officer White male Hispanic male, 34 years old Substantiated (Formalized Training) 2014
Dominic Ruggiero Police Officer White male Asian male, 25 years old Substantiated (Command Discipline A) 2014
Francesco Allevato Police Officer White male Hispanic female, 28 years old Exonerated 2014
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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