Mayor Eric Adams announced on Thursday a new NYPD program targeting elder abuse and once again, outgoing Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell was nowhere to
Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell's sudden announcement on Monday that she would be stepping down as the city's top cop sent shockwaves throughout the department and City Hall.
“It’s not very clear as to who is running the department," former NYPD Commissioner BIll Bratton said. "You can’t have cops looking up, down and sideways trying to figure out who to report to.”
Mayor Adams is fighting speculation that NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell is resigning because of trouble at City Hall, saying Tuesday she was welcome to lead the nation’s largest police department as long as she wanted. “She made the decision that she wanted to do something else and I respect that,” Adams said a day after Sewell, the city’s first female police commissioner, resigned from her .