Equality between men and women will take an important symbolic step in New York. The future mayor, Eric Adams, is preparing to appoint for the first time a woman, Keechant Sewell, to the very sensitive post of chief of police of the largest city in the United States, he announced Tuesday evening at the New York Post.
“Keechant Sewell is an accomplished crime fighter who has the experience and intelligence to provide the safety New Yorkers need and provide them the justice they deserve,” said Eric Adams, himself a former policeman, with the favorite newspaper of the Conservatives. The first woman to lead NYPD, she will be the third black person in the post, while Democrat Eric Adams will be the second black mayor in the history of the mega-city on the East Coast. Both will take up their duties on January 1, 2022.
Restore Confidence
At the head of approximately 35,000 police officers in a city of nearly 9 million inhabitants, Keechant Sewell, 49, will have the heavy task of maintaining security in New York as the coronavirus pandemic was accompanied by a soaring crime in 2020. Above all, it will have to accomplish this mission while restoring the confidence of the population in its police, accused of having in its ranks violent, racist and corrupt agents.
Security had also been one of the main issues of the campaign for mayor of New York. “Welcome Chief Sewell to the second toughest police job in America.” The first, of course, being that of being an NYPD police officer in the street, ”greeted the boss of the city’s first police union (PBA), Patrick Lynch. Keechant Sewell is currently the Chief Investigator in Nassau County, east of New York City.