Eric Adams' New Jail Commissioner Pushes Out Acclaimed Head of Investigations

[brooklynite]

The City

Mayor Eric Adams’ new jails boss is replacing the department’s head of investigations, who tackled thousands of backlogged use-of-force cases in collaboration with a court-appointed monitor — drawing the ire of unions representing correction officers.

Department of Correction Commissioner Louis Molina on Monday afternoon asked Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Investigation Sarena Townsend to immediately step down.

Over the past year, Townsend, 40, processed a mountain of 8,800 internal investigations into the department’s use-of-force incidents against detainees, dating as far back as 2017, according to the latest federal monitor report.

Appointed in 2018, she carried out the orders of a federal court monitor to review all such cases in city jails.

I’m waiting to hear the folks who like Adams to say why.

[BlackSkimmer]

1. Oh boy.

Curiouser and curiouser.

[leftstreet]

2. lol this guy is a total trainwreck n/t

[dem4decades]

3. He's a cop's cop it seems.

[Celerity]

4. Hardly a shock he is removing systemic, restraining checks on the coppers

He campaigned on cracking skulls, and skulls will be cracked.

[VarryOn]

5. So far, I'm an Eric Adams fan...

I like it he's a law enforcement guy. The guy he replaced accomplished little to nothing. Adams will get serious about crime; we need that.

[Hoyt]

6. I'm sure Adams will be asked why?

[Dawson Leery]

7. There should be no "unions" for such state agents.

[wellst0nev0ter]

8. This article is confusing.

The lede said the unions are against the ouster of Townsend, then later on the article posted this tweet from COBA celebrating her exit

Link to tweet

In any case, COBA has demonstrated repeatedly that they are a bunch of dysfunctional shitbirds. Who cares what they think.

[msongs]

9. they NYPD has their man in the mayor's office now nt