NYC mayor names 55-year-old Edward Caban as chief of the most important US police division, the primary Latino to carry the function.
New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams has appointed performing police chief Edward Caban as the primary Hispanic police commissioner within the metropolis’s 178-year historical past.
Caban, who joined the division as a younger patrol officer in 1991 and rose via the ranks, was sworn in Monday and can oversee the most important police pressure in america.
Adams administered the oath of workplace in entrance of the Bronx stationhouse the place Caban began his profession, and praised his new police commissioner as “consultant of this blue-collar metropolis”.
Caban, the son of a transit police officer who served with Adams when the now-mayor was on the transit pressure, stated he joined the New York Metropolis Police Division (NYPD) as “a younger Puerto Rican child” at a time when when “the highest bosses of the police division didn’t actually seem like me”.
His beaming father, retired Detective Juan Caban, and different relations joined Caban as he was sworn in as town’s high police official who will supervise roughly 36,000 officers and 19,000 civilian workers.
Edward Caban has performed a central function in driving crime down these final 18 months. With 30 years expertise, he’s the fitting option to be our subsequent NYPD Commissioner.
A Bronx native and our first Latino commissioner, he is an inspiration to our metropolis.
Congratulations, @NYPDPC! pic.twitter.com/KpSfn374XH
— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) July 17, 2023
Caban thanked Adams for selecting him.
“To be the primary Hispanic police commissioner is an honour of the best measure,” Caban stated.
Caban, 55, has served as performing commissioner because the resignation of Commissioner Keechant Sewell, who introduced final month that she was stepping down after 18 months.
Sewell, the primary lady to guide the division, didn’t present a cause for her resignation, however there had been hypothesis that different officers together with Deputy Mayor for Public Security Philip Banks III, an Adams ally, have been undermining her authority.
Adams and Caban each praised Sewell, who didn’t attend her successor’s swearing-in.
“Commissioner Sewell smashed a glass ceiling,” Caban stated, “and she or he did so with grace, confidence and honour”.
Adams stated Caban, who served as first deputy commissioner underneath Sewell, had “labored facet by facet with Commissioner Sewell to ship double-digit decreases in shootings and murders”.
The quantity of crime is down in New York Metropolis over the past three months, together with a 17 p.c discount in shootings and a 3 p.c drop in homicides in June in comparison with the identical month in 2022, division information confirmed.
Caban had labored in a number of precincts throughout town as he climbed the ranks from patrol officer to sergeant, lieutenant, captain, govt officer, commanding officer, deputy inspector, inspector and first deputy commissioner.
The police division he’ll lead is extra numerous than the largely white and male police pressure he joined 32 years in the past.
In accordance with division figures, 31 p.c of uniformed officers are Hispanic, a barely larger quantity than the 29 p.c of town’s inhabitants recognized as Hispanic by the US Census Bureau.
About 11 p.c of the division’s officers are Asian and about 16 p.c are Black, in contrast with a metropolis inhabitants that’s about 14 p.c Asian and 24 p.c Black.
