Patrol Borough Brooklyn South - The NYPD Files

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Patrol Borough Brooklyn South

This page contains allegations that were filed against officers who were serving at this precinct or in this unit at the time an incident is alleged to have occured. A complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.

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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	Allegation	Officer Details	Complainant Details	CCRB Conclusion	Year Received
Frank Vega	Captain	Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched	Hispanic male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Frank Vega	Captain	Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search	Hispanic male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2001
Frank Vega	Captain	Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched	Hispanic male	Not available	Exonerated	2003
Christophe Muller	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Christophe Muller	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk And/Or Search	White male	White male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2003
Kurt Cani	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2010
John Sears	Police Officer	Offensive Language: Race	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
John Sears	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Action	White male	Black male, 26 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Richard Guerrieri	Police Officer	Force: Other	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Richard Guerrieri	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kevin Mulhern	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Question	White male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
Kevin Mulhern	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
Kevin Mulhern	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	White male	Other Race male, 27 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2011
James Giamboi	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Stop	White male	Black female, 40 years old	Exonerated	2011
James Giamboi	Police Officer	Force: Gun Pointed	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2011
Kurt Cani	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	White male	Black male, 23 years old	Unsubstantiated	2011
James Giamboi	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Search (Of Person)	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2011
James Giamboi	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	White male	Black male, 48 years old	Exonerated	2011
Nicholas Canepa	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2012
James Berk	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Exonerated	2012
Robert Backiel	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Robert Backiel	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Krishna Tandrian	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Premises Entered And/Or Searched	Asian male	Not available	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
David Savella	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
David Savella	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Lauren Au	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	Asian female	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2012
Lauren Au	Police Officer	Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton)	Asian female	Black male, 23 years old	Exonerated	2012
Colin Austin	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Black male	Black male, 26 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jacob Giannelli	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 52 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Gesner Charles	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	Black male	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Charles Arnone	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2012
Charles Arnone	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Delisa Brownsmith	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	Hispanic female	Black male, 39 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2012
Daniel Castaldo	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 37 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
John Sears	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Question	White male	Black male, 45 years old	Substantiated (Charges)	2012
Nicholas Canepa	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Unsubstantiated	2012
Nicholas Canepa	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 29 years old	Exonerated	2012
Jonvincent Testaccio	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2013
Brian Mccarthy	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Brian Mccarthy	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Action	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Brian Mccarthy	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Property Damaged	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Brian Mccarthy	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 28 years old	Substantiated (Instructions)	2013
Gesner Charles	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Process Civilian Complaint	Black male	Black male, 20 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Trachta	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Force (Verbal Or Physical)	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Trachta	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Question	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2013
Thomas Trachta	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Thomas Trachta	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Other	White male	Black male, 25 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Jonvincent Testaccio	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat To Damage/Seize Property	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Jonvincent Testaccio	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	Hispanic male	Black male, 25 years old	Exonerated	2013
Dmitry Brush	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Dmitry Brush	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Hispanic male, 35 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Dmitry Brush	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Hispanic male, 30 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Dmitry Brush	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Refusal To Provide Name/Shield Number	White male	White male, 27 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Question	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Exonerated	2013
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	White male	Black male, 39 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Jonvincent Testaccio	Police Officer	Discourtesy: Word	Hispanic male	Black male, 29 years old	Substantiated (Command Discipline)	2013
Dmitry Brush	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 20 years old	Exonerated	2013
William Pugliese	Police Officer	Force: Gun Pointed	White male	Black male, 33 years old	Unsubstantiated	2013
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Action	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Word	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Strip Searched	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Larry Meyers	Sergeant	Force: Nightstick As Club (Incl Asp & Baton)	White male	Black male, 24 years old	Exonerated	2014
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Stop	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Frisk	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Question	Black male	Black male, 32 years old	Unsubstantiated	2014
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Gun Drawn	Black male	Not available	Unsubstantiated	2014
Joshua Bienvenue	Sergeant	Discourtesy: Word	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Unsubstantiated	2015
Joshua Bienvenue	Sergeant	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
John Panik	Police Officer	Force: Physical Force	White male	Black male, 22 years old	Exonerated	2015
Christian Cayenne	Police Officer	Abuse of Authority: Threat Of Arrest	Black male	Black female, 53 years old	Exonerated	2016
Orlando Phillip	Sergeant	Abuse of Authority: Vehicle Search	Black male	Hispanic male, 33 years old	Exonerated	2016

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.