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Incoming New York mayor to appoint first woman to lead city's police department

Published 12/14/2021, 09:22 PM
Updated 12/15/2021, 01:27 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: New York City police cars are pictured, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., November 1, 2021. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri/File Photo

(Reuters) - New York Mayor-elect Eric Adams will appoint a woman to serve as commissioner of the city's police department for the first time in its 176-year history, local media reported on Tuesday.

Adams, himself a former New York City police captain, will introduce Keechant Sewell at a news conference in Queens on Wednesday, New York's Daily News reported.

“Keechant Sewell is a proven crime fighter with the experience and emotional intelligence to deliver both the safety New Yorkers need and the justice they deserve,” Adams said in a statement published by the newspaper.

The New York Times reported that Sewell is a 23-year veteran of the police department in Nassau County, New York, where she is chief of detectives. She would be New York City's third Black police commissioner.

The current commissioner, Dermot Shea, was appointed in 2019 by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

“We welcome Chief Sewell to the second-toughest policing job in America,” Patrick Lynch, president of the city's major police union, said in a written statement. “The toughest, of course, is being an NYPD cop on the street.”

Latest comments

How brave and powerful and empowering and enabling and woke. (I'm sure I missed a few adjectives)
so you saw a black woman  and you immediately assume it's wokeness that got her the job, how brave and powerful and white of you......
lol, woke unqualified. watch officers quit and retire. what a cesspool New York is
 with today's wokeness, too many get appointments because they "check the right boxes."  --- as opposed to the anti-wokenss past, people only get the appointment because their qualification instead of their skin color, yeah?  the good old days when white males got treated fairly and everyone else sit at the back of the bus, eh?
 "the issue is not hiring women, it is hiring people because they are women and minorities (like kamala)"  -- of course you know Kamala Harris' last 3 jobs (Calif AG, Senator, VP) are not hired but voted by voters, so you need to come up with a new rant.....
 "people ironically view women and minorities as lesser because they are not being promoted based on their merits."  -- so you are saying before this time when all the leftists run wild, in the good old days people don't view women and minorities as lesser?  that's a good one, what's next, slavery aint all bad???
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