NYPD Gets First Female Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell

New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams named Keechant Sewell police commissioner, marking the first time a woman will lead the largest police department in the U.S.

Sewell, 49, is the Nassau County Chief of Detectives. The Queens native will replace Dermot Shea, a career NYPD cop appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio in December 2019.

“I am ready,” Sewell said in a press conference on Wednesday at Queensbridge Houses, a public housing complex in Long Island City where she lived as a child. “I will have the backs of my officers, but they must have the backs of the public.”

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[Jimfromearthoo]

I think it’s time to move out of nyc and probably
out of nys. Too many people in positions
they are not really qualified for!
This doesn’t equal a high and save quality
of life in NYS.

[thomascooperhopewelljr]

Chiefs. Well, did you just say behind the radar that your resigning today? 1:23

[mayomonkey]

It's like Waukesha never happened!

[timw]

let's just hope she is able to handle this job.

[ethicsfirst]

This is wrong.
Wish they posted her qualifications for the job first and not her gender and race. That's just demeaning to hard working officer. She doesn't deserve that.
Why don't Democrats and their allies get that? It's all posing and identity politics and it demeans people.

[johnwayne]

Let's hope for all our sakes this is not another Kamala, all bark no bite. The best we might be able to hope for is that she's just a puppet for Adams.