Dermot Shea, schooled in policing on the Bronx’s mean streets of the early 1990s, began his tenure Dec. 1 as the city’s 44th Police Commissioner.
At his ceremonial swearing-in the following day, Mr. Shea, born in Sunnyside, Queens, of Irish working-class parents, called on cops to always consider the effect and impression they and their work leave on residents in their day-to-day interactions, some of them on occasions that are among the most trying.
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