NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell to hand out promotions as last official act before she goes

…Jillian Snider, another ex-NYPD officer who is an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, believed Sewell was something of a figurehead under Adams. “I feel that everything within the police commissioner’s purview is being dictated by the Mayor,” said Snider. “Insiders were surprised she lasted as long as she did.”

Adams and Banks were so out front publicly that Snider said some of her students thought that it was Adams who ran the department…

Although Sewell was touted by Adams as the first woman commissioner in New York City history, she never had an easy time in what is a male-dominated culture of the department, said Snider…