Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell is set to make history as the first-ever female police commissioner of the New York Police Department.
A representative for Mayor-elect Eric Adams confirmed reports Tuesday night that the incoming mayor has appointed Sewell, a former Queens resident, as the city’s next top cop. Adams and Sewell are set to make the announcement official at a press conference Wednesday morning at the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, where Sewell was born and raised.
The selection ends a lengthy vetting process in which Adams considered candidates from across the country seeking to lead the nation’s largest police force. Current Police Commissioner Dermot Shea is retiring at the end of this calendar year.
Sewell made history in September 2020 when she was named the first Black female Chief of Detectives for the Nassau County Police Department, where she spent 22 years on the job, as Newsday reported. Adams himself a former ranking NYPD officer who campaigned with a strategy of being tough on crime while continuing to support police officers and build a stronger relationship with the community.
If and when she takes office, Sewell will be coming into the NYPD at a time when the city faces higher crime rates in recent months, fueled largely by property thefts. Shootings continue to occur at rates higher than what the city experienced before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Outgoing Nassau County Executive Laura Curran offered Sewell congratulations on her appointment as the NYPD’s top cop, as did the Police Benevolent Association, the union representing the city’s uniformed police officers.
“We welcome Chief Sewell to the second-toughest policing job in America. The toughest, of course, is being an NYPD cop on the street,” PBA President Patrick Lynch said in a statement. “New York City police officers have passed our breaking point. We need to fix that break in order to get our police department and our city back on course. We look forward to working with her to accomplish that goal.”
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The Democrats greatest fears have come to pass. The very group of people they socially used in social dependency power grabs have overcome the indoctrination and now have taken over the reigns of power. They sought to control Blacks in socialist American conquered University indoctrinations of dependency, but the American street schools of hard Knox got in their way. This is a paradigm that if spread like a virus to other Democrat cities might bring the radicals of their party down, and reinstate the Democrat party to the status of AMERICAN that it once had when it used to be both GREAT and AMERICAN. Today there is little that is Great nor American, and it might just be party abused American born blacks that bring the party back to their senses. Don’t count on the illegal aliens to get the job done, just the Legal ones who seem to avoid them when their Democrat lying eyes lose out to their personal American experiences. Power to the police is the real power to THE PEOPLE.
I wonder, If she’s just yet another ‘wicket’ hire..
POC – check
Woman – check
Libtard – Check..
Ok you’re hired.
I hope she puts her black foot up the rest end of every criminal.
Now let’s hope she can follow THROUGH ON the changes that her and the mayor want to see happen!