NYPD Faces Uncertain Future Amid New York’s Growing Political Crisis

News Analysis With the resignation of New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Edward Caban amid a federal probe of Mayor Eric Adams’s administration, city officials are facing a public trust crisis. Add to that an incident this past weekend in which officers in a Brooklyn subway station opened fire on an alleged turnstile jumper armed with a knife and accidentally shot a fellow officer and a bystander. The police force and mayoral administration are both scrambling to regain credibility, in the view of Michael Alcazar, an adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan and a retired NYPD detective....