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Get a link in your mailbox to your weekly NYPD Confidential column as soon as it is published! Click on the button above right on this page — or here — to sign up for this feature. What They're Whispering at Police PlazaDecember 18, 2017 The NYPD may or may not be the greatest police department in the world but it does have the greatest number of rumormongers.
Foremost among the rumors — in fact, more certainty than rumor — is that Gomez’s successor will be Chief of Patrol Terence Monahan. Monahan is rumored to be best buds with Commissioner Jim O’Neill, who promoted him to the three-star rank of Chief of Patrol after O’Neill became commissioner in 2016. [And people say the Irish no longer run the NYPD!]
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So who’s Monahan’s successor as Chief of Patrol? Rumors are it’s Assistant Chief Rodney Harrison, who as Monahan’s executive assistant heads the mayor’s vaunted Neighborhood Policing program. Harrison is black, which is a rarity — hence an asset — amid the department’s three-star ranks. Rumor also has it that certain influential females outside the department — i.e, Public Advocate Letitia James and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife Chirlane McCray — would like to see a woman, primarily a woman of color, in a high and visible positon. That could mean Queens North Assistant Chief Juanita Holmes, notwithstanding her embarrassing domestic issues. In 2011, her husband was arrested after smacking her around outside the home of an NYPD detective with whom he accused her of having an affair. Then, there’s the impending departure of Chief of Detectives Bob Boyce, who ages out at 63 in a couple of months — but not before marching in the St. Patrick’s Day parade. He’s rumored to be under consideration as a top police guy on Long Island, where he lives.
Problem is there’s no one to replace him at COMPSTAT. Ignored in all this are Hispanic officers. With Gomez’s departure, there are none above the rank of Assistant Chief, which in the NYPD ranks higher than Deputy Chief. And there are only two or three Hispanic Assistant Chiefs. With Hispanic cops comprising 30 percent of the force, that’s something the NYPD will have reckon with. |
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