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In the spirit of firsts, the Democratic Mayor of New York City and former cop, Eric Adams, appointed Keechant Sewell as the city's first female police commissioner and she gets bonus intersectional points for being black.
Sewell was sworn in on Jan. 1, 2022 and declared that she was ready to lace up her shoes and get the job done. But in less than a year and a half, she's calling it quits Monday and the reason has not been revealed. Perhaps it comes after a daylight incident of a murder took place in the streets of Manhattan just yesterday. Or maybe it has to do with CVS pharmacies and other businesses having to lock their items up to prevent unopposed theft. Maybe the revolving door no bail balderdash has gotten to her and she became too frustrated to stay, because she refuses to be a hypocrite.
Who knows?
Sewell, 51, is leaving and it isn't known who will be stepping into her formerly laced up shoes to run the largest and largely impotent police force in the country.
“Since I joined you almost a year and a half ago we have faced tremendous tragedy, challenges and triumphs together,” Sewell wrote in the memo to the NYPD’s 55,000 members.
“I have witnessed your compassion, heroics and selflessness on a daily basis,” the email, obtained by The Post, read. “They have reaffirmed to me what people around the globe have always known: you are an extraordinary collective of hard-working public servants dedicated to the safety of this city, engaging our communities and sharing what we know with our partners for the benefit of the world,” Sewell wrote and added yadda yadda.
“I have witnessed your compassion, heroics and selflessness on a daily basis,” the email, obtained by The Post, read. “They have reaffirmed to me what people around the globe have always known: you are an extraordinary collective of hard-working public servants dedicated to the safety of this city, engaging our communities and sharing what we know with our partners for the benefit of the world,” Sewell wrote and added yadda yadda.
Lately, Commissioner Sewell has been stymied when attempting to make departmental decisions.
NYPD commissioners have historically held the authority to promote rank and file cops to detective, and detectives to higher ranks — but Sewell had to run the moves past City Hall, law enforcement sources said.
“They tied her up,” one source told the New York Post. “There’s no executive choices on her behalf. If a cop distinguishes himself and she wants to promote him, she can’t do it.”
Sewell was spotted at City Hall around 3:45 p.m. Monday but declined to answer questions.
Sources said Adams was blindsided by her immediate resignation like he was when after making New York a sanctuary city and illegal aliens were sent there.
“The mayor was caught short,” a law enforcement source said Monday. “They did not think she would be leaving today. The earliest they thought it was later in the summer.”
“They tied her up,” one source told the New York Post. “There’s no executive choices on her behalf. If a cop distinguishes himself and she wants to promote him, she can’t do it.”
Sewell was spotted at City Hall around 3:45 p.m. Monday but declined to answer questions.
Sources said Adams was blindsided by her immediate resignation like he was when after making New York a sanctuary city and illegal aliens were sent there.
“The mayor was caught short,” a law enforcement source said Monday. “They did not think she would be leaving today. The earliest they thought it was later in the summer.”
Good for her. I suspect she has integrity, which is more than I can say for Eric Adams and others.
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