Keechant Sewell’s selection to become the first woman and third Black police commissioner in the history of New York City was greeted with cautious optimism, and much doubt that the appointee will survive the nation’s No. 1 metropolis.
“I smiled with pride,” constitutional law professor Gloria Browne-Marshall told me. “I want her to do well, but New York is a troubled city with a conservative police department. Although she has been chief of detectives in Nassau County, Long Island, and a member of the New York-New Jersey Joint Terrorism Task Force, my enthusiasm over this historic news is mixed with concern due to the web of politics, race and gender bias awaiting her.”
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