NY Post
James O’Neill formally stepped down as NYPD commissioner in a City Hall press briefing on Monday afternoon, leaving after three years in the post for a private-sector gig.
“I came into this job with one mission, and that was to fight crime and keep everybody safe,” said O’Neill. “And we did it, and we continue to do it.”
Despite speaking frankly about the stresses of helming the nation’s largest police department for three years since Mayor Bill de Blasio tapped him in September 2016, O’Neill said that he doesn’t leave the department easily.
“I’m gonna miss it,” said O’Neill, who took a moment during his remarks to name each of the Finest who died of line-of-duty injuries on his watch. “I love being a cop.”
Long-swirling whispers of O’Neill’s eyeing the door resurfaced Monday morning, but were confirmed this time as the real deal, first by department sources and soon by City Hall.
O’Neill would say only that he’d received an offer of a private-sector job he “couldn’t pass up” — but law-enforcement sources told The Post that he has a gig lined up in California.
Ahead of the briefing, de Blasio acknowledged in a statement that O’Neill was calling it a career, and named Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea as his successor atop the department, effective December 1.
6 comments:
Got sick and tired of the mayor having him all tied up, the poor guy was unable to do his job. He was also forced to fire cops who were just doing the job the swore to so.
In sanctuary city the police now wear the handcuffs.
Now with Katz as the DA Queens is finished for sure.
Lol you came here to make people safe and you did it? What a joke. On what planet do you live on? The only thing the NYPD does is give tickets left and right and eat donuts and get fat all day long.
Jimmy, don't let the door hit you in the ass when you go. Move along. We don't need anymore White Hate in NYC. Everyone knows you were DeBlaz's puppet. You should be ashamed of yourself.
HA, no one of value wants to be in shitty NYC, but California is just the flip-side of the CRAP COIN.
People you are the players to blame, not them. Martians, Russians, no one imposed these people on you - you elected them.
And if you did not always lose your composure around them when they walked into a room and act like little goofy children perhaps we would have a different government.
YOU ARE THE BOSS, NOT THEM. ACT LIKE ADULTS! DEMAND BETTER!
Another victim of the "Bucket Brigade!" He's really gonna love California. It's NYC times ten. Adios amigo!
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