Jeffrey Maddrey, New York City’s top uniformed police officer, abruptly resigned Friday night amid allegations of sexual misconduct, setting off local and federal investigations and extending years of turmoil at the Police Department, the New York Times reports. .The New York Post reported that Maddrey had demanded sex from a subordinate, sometimes at Police Headquarters, in exchange for overtime. Another former subordinate, Capt. Gabrielle Walls, said Maddrey had repeatedly made advances on her. Walls said she had hid in her office on more than a dozen occasions to avoid advances from Maddrey. If he found her, she said, “I knew it was when the kissing would start.” Federal investigators have joined a city Department of Investigation inquiry into the provision of overtime and the allegations of misconduct against Maddrey. Separately, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch replaced Tarik Sheppard, the combative head of NYPD communications and an ally of Mayor Eric Adams, part of a shake-up of the department’s upper ranks and other moves that suggest she is trying to restore order to an agency reeling from chaos and dysfunction at the top, the Times reports.
The announcement came 10 days after Tisch ordered 500 officers who had been “improperly transferred” from their permanent posts to go back to their regular assignments. That practice, known as “telephone message transfers,” had led to short staffing in parts of the department and slower emergency response times. The Police Department has been shaken by the departure of three commissioners in an 18-month period and a sense that Mayor Adams, a former police captain, was in charge of the agency instead of the leaders he had appointed. Tisch also is cracking down on apparent abuse of overtime pay as the agency faces internal and external investigations into the matter. Among at least 29 officers who were moved into new jobs over the past two days, 16 earned more than $100,000 in overtime pay in the last fiscal year. Several of the employees who were moved worked under Maddrey, formerly the chief of department, and other top police officials. Two officers who worked for Maddrey collectively made $312,769 in overtime alone.d
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