Dermot Shea, the son of Irish working-class parents who began his career patrolling the South Bronx’s mean streets and diligently worked his way up to lead the nation’s largest police department during the most-turbulent epoch in the city's recent history, has announced his retirement.
Mr. Shea’s departure at the end of the month was widely expected given incoming Mayor Eric Adams’s publicly stated intention during the campaign to hire a woman of color as his Police Commissioner.
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