Keechant Sewell walked into Mayor Eric Adams’ office unannounced on Monday and told him she would be leaving. No one but her closest aides saw it coming.
Jeffrey Maddrey, the chief of department, ordered the release of a retired officer who had been arrested after chasing three boys while armed with a gun.
Lawyers say evidence in cold cases and bids for exoneration disappeared or was ruined when a Police Department storage facility in Brooklyn went up in flames.