NYPD chief of patrol quits after weeks of tension with Bill de Blasio - News Today
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New York Police Department's chief of patrol has resigned after less than a year on the job, reportedly because of disagreements with Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York.Fausto Pichardo, 41, was the highest ranking Hispanic officer in the NYPD.Pichardo resigned over friction with City Hall, multiple sources told the New York Post and New York Daily News.According to the Daily News, Pichardo had endured weeks of tension with the mayor, who has been deeply unpopular among the NYPD for years. +9 img id="i-81b57f977d5f081a" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/..." height="357" width="634" alt="" class="blkBorder img-share" / Copy link to paste in your message +9 img id="i-2b157e4c023d06af" src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/10/..." height="422" width="634" alt="" class="blkBorder img-share" / Copy link to paste in your message The final straw was after last week’s Orthodox Jewish protests in Borough Park, sources said. Pichardo worked 36 hours straight, then went home to fall asleep and missed a call from the mayor, the sources said.The mayor left what sources told Pix11 were 'rude and unprofessional' messages. When he woke up, he returned the call, and de Blasio summoned him to City Hall to give him a dressing down for not answering the phone, the sources said. Dermot Shea, the NYPD commissioner, tried to get him to change his mind, sources told Pix11. In the role, he oversaw a majority of the force's 22,000 uniformed police officers, who are assigned to each of the department's 77 precincts citywide. 'Chief Fausto Pichardo, the NYPD Chief of Patrol, filed for retirement on Tuesday, ending an accomplished more than two-decade long career in the New York City Police Department,' the department said in a statement.'Chief Pichardo, 41, was the first Chief of Patrol of Dominican heritage in NYPD history and has worked tirelessly in recent months to guide the men and women in uniform through a series of challenging issues that have strained the city and the agency.'