“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.”
A cadre of powerful former cops at City Hall, including Mayor Adams and Deputy Mayor Phillip Banks, pushed Commish Keechant Sewell to her “breaking point,” The Post has learned.
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 .
NEW YORK — Too many cooks in the kitchen brought the NYPD’s leadership dynamic to a boil — and may have led to Commissioner Keechant Sewell’s surprise resignation, former NYPD