NEW YORK CITY: Incoming mayor Adams expected to name first woman NYPD commissioner

NYC RUMORS: Former Seattle chief Carmen Best and current Philadelphia chief Danielle Outlaw are said to be the  leading candidates to break the gender barrier at the NYPD

DAILY NEWS: The incoming mayor’s pick will face a number of daunting challenges, including the NYPD’s frayed community relations, the sagging morale of the rank and file, and the city’s pandemic surge in gun violence.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-adams-police-commissioner-nypd-… 

NEW YORK POST: NYPD’s top cop Dermot Shea and second in command file for retirement

NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea and another top cop have put in their retirement papers in the weeks before Mayor-elect Eric Adams takes office, The Post has learned.

Shea, 52, and First Deputy Commissioner Ben Tucker, 70, will step away from the police department on Dec. 31, according to police sources.

The top cop’s driver, Det. Thomas Fitzgerald, also filed for retirement on Thursday, sources added.

The lame-duck police commissioner, with just a month left on the job, filed for retirement while overseas in Dubai on “routine travel” for the NYPD.

“On a regular basis, officials from the NYPD travel to countries where we have NYPD personnel posted as part of our foreign liaison program, and representatives from those countries travel to New York City,” police spokesman Ed Riley said.

Shea, the third white Irish man as the top cop under Mayor Bill de Blasio, was appointed police commissioner in November 2019 after former police leader James O’Neill retired. He, like his predecessor, was considered a protege of Bill Bratton.

Shea will be remembered for disbanding the NYPD’s anti-crime unit — a controversial plainclothes patrol that accounted for a disproportionate amount of police shootings and, most notably, the chokehold death of Eric Garner.....

https://nypost.com/2021/12/02/nypds-commissioner-dermot-shea-announces-…