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Mayor de Blasio not thinking outside the box
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When he announced that NYPD Chief
of Detectives Dermot Shea, 50, will take
over as police commissioner on Dec. 1,
Mayor Bill de Blasio called him “one of
the best prepared incoming police commissioners
this city has ever seen.”
Th e mayor then touted Shea’s personal
story of growing up in a cramped one-bedroom
apartment, the son of Irish immigrants,
who had to achieve everything
through hard work — and his 28-year
career clearly show he has the right stuff .
Shea will join the likes of John Francis
O’Ryan, Th omas Francis Murphy and
Patrick V. Murphy as the leader of the
nation’s largest police force, a tradition
in which the majority of commissioners
in the last 120 years have been of Irish
descent.
Th e mayor is correct when he called
Shea’s appointment “an American-dream
story if there ever was one,” but reformers
see something else.
Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz tweeted,
“At a time when the relationship
between police and communities couldn’t
be worse — we chose another white guy?”
City Councilman Donovan Richards,
the chair of the committee on public safety,
took a more nuanced approach. Aft er
praising Commissioner James O’Neill,
who is leaving for a job in the private sector,
Richards questioned the mayor’s decision
making process.
“As we look towards a new commissioner,
I am concerned with the direction we
are going. Th e faces of everyday offi cers is
changing, as the NYPD shift s to a majority
minority department. Th e top of the
department should refl ect that.”
Th e mayor looked into the faces of the
changing NYPD just last month during
a swearing-in ceremony at the Police
Academy in College Point, where the latest
class of 697 recruits is the most diverse
in city history with more than 60 percent
representing a minority group.
Should de Blasio have followed the path
followed by Ed Koch in selecting Ben Ward
or David Dinkins appointing Lee Brown
by going with First Deputy Commissioner
Ben Tucker, who was reportedly interviewed
by the mayor over the weekend?
Maybe that was just for optics — and
the mayor punted, telling NY1 “you will
see an intensifi cation of diversity in the
leadership ranks in the coming years.”
De Blasio, who is term-limited out of
offi ce in 2021, basically admitted that he
had made up his mind on picking Shea a
while back.
“I started watching Dermot in action
six years ago... And I became convinced a
long time ago that he was the future of the
NYPD,” de Blasio said.
Th at is not thinking outside of the box.
It was an easy choice made by a lame duck
mayor.
Photo by Mark Hallum
Mayor Bill de Blasio made the safe, easy choice in selecting Dermot Shea (pictured) as the new police
commissioner.
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