NEW YORK — When Mayor Adams announced Nov. 29 that police would carry out a new city policy of removing mentally ill people from the streets into shelters, a city official who’d have a big role carrying out the plan — NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell — wasn’t with the mayor to talk about it.
That absence was in line with her low-key presence, insiders say — she focuses on the tasks at hand. But some critics say she’d do better by making herself more visible.
The city’s first female police commissioner has revealed little about herself to the city, has given few interviews and has not in several months had a press conference in which she entertained questions not related to the topic at hand.
