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NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan is expected to announce his retirement Thursday and take on a public safety advisory role as the city looks to recover.
De Blasio names NYPD s Monahan senior advisor; Harrison named Chief of Department
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NEW YORK - Terence Monahan, the highest-ranking uniformed police officer in the NYPD, is leaving the department to become Mayor Bill de Blasio s senior advisor.
De Blasio introduced Monahan, 59, as the newest Senior Advisor for Recovery, Safety and Planning, during a briefing from City Hall Thursday afternoon. There is nothing I want more than to see New York like it was two years ago. There is nothing better that I can do, said Monahan.
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2021/02/26 03:38 NEW YORK (AP) A New York City police commander who kneeled with protesters outraged by the death of George Floyd, but was also an architect of the department s forceful response to the demonstrations, said Thursday that he is retiring after nearly four decades on the force. Chief of Department Terence Monahan, the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed leader, will become a senior adviser to Mayor Bill de Blasio, aiding in the city’s coronavirus recovery, the mayor said at a news conference announcing the move. Between the pandemic and the protests, Monahan said, “this was the toughest year that I ve ever spent in law enforcement.”
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That gun control advocates lie and mislead is no real surprise to anyone, and in my opinion one of the worst offenders is the Giffords Law Center.
Blaming a lack of attention to “gun deaths” on COVID-19, the Giffords Center put out their annual A-F “score card” of state gun laws, and predictably, the freest states fare the worst in their authoritarian estimation.
Kansas, for instance, earns an “F” rating, presumably because our gun laws are among the loosest in the nation; open carry has been legal for decades and constitutional carry for several years now, for example.
Giffords points out that Kansas has a “gun death rate” of 13.69 per 100,000 residents, slightly higher than the national average of 11.9.