Equality between men and women will take an important symbolic step in New York. The future mayor, Eric Adams, is about to appoint for the first time a woman, Keechant Sewell, to the very sensitive post of head of the
police of the largest city in the United States, he announced Tuesday evening to 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. First woman to lead the New York, 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 megalopolis 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 people, Keechant Sewell, 49, will have the difficult task of maintaining security in New York as the pandemic of coronavirus was accompanied by a surge in crime in 2020. It will above all 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.
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