According to NYMag, Eric Adams has nominated Keechant Sewell to be the New York City Police Department's first African-American female Commissioner. The incumbent Mayor of New York City made the official announcement today (December 15) at a news conference at the Queensbridge Houses in Long Island City, and he had a message for the women of the city.

“Chief Sewell’s appointment today is a powerful message to girls and young women across the city: there is no ceiling to your ambition,” Adams said.

Keechant Sewell worked for the Nassau Police Department for 23 years, doing everything from narcotics to hostage negotiation. Sewell's time working as an undercover agent and the "emotional intelligence" she displayed during the interview process, which she demonstrated during a "hours-long mock press conference regarding the shooting of an unarmed Black man by a white NYPD cop," caught Adam's attention at the end of the day.

"I want to actually take a look at what’s working in the city and what’s not working," Sewell told the New York Post, which revealed the news of her nomination first. She also stated that she supports "broken windows" policing "in a way that’s not discriminatory, in a way that addresses the problem and doesn’t actually over police it in some respect.” She is expected to oversee Adams' vision of reform for the department where he spent years, including the reintroduction of a version of the plainclothes police units that were disbanded last year and were responsible for an outsized number of police shootings."