I look forward to bringing my family back my wife has never been to Ireland and we look forward to going,” Shea says. We didn’t go to Dublin when I was first in Ireland. I’ve only been back once since that time, and that was last year when I went to Dublin to speak at a conference. They stayed in his mother’s small family farmhouse which had no running water or electricity, but there was an outhouse and plenty of animals on the land. He went for three weeks with his sister and an aunt. Shea made his first trip to Ireland when he was young, around eight or nine years old he recalls. For sure it felt very spacious.” Traveling home to Ireland Around 1977-1978 we moved to the other side of Queens Boulevard near St. “At that time there were four kids so we had two sets of bunk beds in the bedroom and my parents slept on a pullout couch in the living room,” Shea remembers. The girls did some Irish dancing and the boys had Irish music lessons “which didn’t stick for me,” Shea laughs.įor a chunk of their childhood, the Sheas lived in a one-bedroom apartment on 44th Street just off of Skillman Avenue and next to Queen of Angels parish where the kids went to school. Shea is the fourth of five children, Helen, James, Geraldine and Paul being the others. He is pictured with Emerald Society President Detective Scott Lloyd. The a historical significance and the major political implications of Wednesday's announcement were palpable in the room.The NYPD Emerald Society dinner on February 28, where Dermot Shea was named Irishman of the Year. Still, the last four commissioners have all been white men. Several top level positions are currently held by people of color. In recent years and during de Blasio's administration, the NYPD has made significant strides to make the department more diverse. Bratton would return years later under Mayor Bill de Blasio.Ĭommissioners Jimmy O'neill and Dermot Shea both served de Blasio's administration after successfully moving up through the ranks. "They're not going to be very successful."īratton, who was first appointed by former Mayor Rudy Guiliani, learned that lesson after his star appeared to shine too bright, or at least brighter than Mayor Guiliani, who promptly sent him packing out of police headquarters. "Politics is a very significant part of the platform any commissioner stands on and if the police commissioner can’t dance on that platform, they're not going to be around very long," Bill Bratton, former NYPD Commissioner told NY1. Whether they want it or not, political interference between City Hall and 1 Police Plaza is a reality. First under David Dinkins, and then for 12 years under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. "My job was to carry out the functions of the police department, not to be hampered by political interference."īrown was eventually replaced by Ray Kelly, a firebrand who served twice. "I saw my role of police commissioner to protect the police department from politics," Brown said. Looking back on his time at the helm, Brown told NY1 he tried to keep politics out. Years later, Mayor David Dinkins, like Adams, tried the outsider route, tapping Lee Brown, the Houston Police Chief to serve as his top cop.īrown led the department during the Crown Heights riots, a pivotal moment in the city's history, charged with deep seeded racial tensions and politics very much at the center of it all. Mayor Ed Koch tried to shore up support in the Black community making history by appointing Ben Ward, the first Black commissioner to ever lead the department. Indeed, over the years, mayors have picked commissioners who provided some political cover while others have turned out to be political liabilities.
Incoming Commissioner Sewell will soon be in charge of the largest police force in the country and she'll have to navigate the politics that come with that job.įormer police commissioners who served under different mayors told NY1, even when they tried, it was difficult to keep politics out of the job. "All of that is fine, but there is only one thing you need to understand, I'm the mayor."
"People are going to question what we are doing and how we're doing it," Adams said during a press conference at the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City. She'll have to navigate the politics that come with that job.Incoming Commissioner Sewell will soon be in charge of the largest police force in the country.The relationship between a mayor and his police commissioner can be make or break.
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