Adams summoned Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell and Chief of Department Kenneth Corey to City Hall on Tuesday to answer for the surge in bloodshed that left 29 people wounded ahead of his planned news conference on the NYPD’s new anti-gun units, law-enforcement sources said Wednesday.
March 24, 2022
More than 100 chiefs — including one-, two-, three- and four-star chiefs — will be required to sign in and out with the NYPD Transit Bureau before and after their scheduled subway shifts.
March 16, 2022
Biden insisted the answer to surging gun violence was “not to defund the police” or “abandon our streets” as he met with Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul at the NYPD’s Manhattan headquarters.
February 3, 2022
The move comes after the mayor on Sunday defended hiring his brother despite nepotism concerns.
January 12, 2022
“I can also tell you that more than 80 percent of the people arrested for illegal gun possession this year are not in custody. Does that sound like a formula for success?” he wrote.
January 5, 2022
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams has tapped Nassau County Chief of Detectives Keechant Sewell as the next commissioner of the NYPD.
December 15, 2021
“If he thinks that they’re going to go back to the old ways of policing, then we are going to take to the streets again. There will be riots, there will be fire and there will be bloodshed because we believe in defending our people,” said Hawk Newsome, co-founder of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, after a heated meeting with Adams in Brooklyn Borough Hall.
November 11, 2021
Former Seattle Chief Carmen Best reportedly caught the incoming administration’s attention with her refusal to give into overreach from the city council and her track record of standing up for the rank-and-file, including sacrificing her six-figure salary by stepping down.
November 4, 2021
The NYPD will begin to publish more recruitment statistics. Along with available data about race, the department will offer a breakdown of members’ sexual identity and orientation. They will be one of the first police departments in the country to do so, and hope that it will motivate LGBTQIA+ individuals to apply.
October 7, 2021
Late returns showed the Brooklyn borough president well ahead of the pack — but because of absentee voting it will be a couple of weeks before a winner can actually be declared.
June 23, 2021
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