It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning everyone.

So why did New York City Police Commissioner Keeshaan Sewell really resign?

What's her actual legacy as police commissioner?

And is it any different than Mayor Adams records so far on public safety and criminal justice?

There's so much we don't know about her positions on his policies.

If Mayor Adams really did render her powerless too, as some of the news reports have it,

did that matter to safety and justice or only to the politics of City Hall and one police

plaza?

And oh by the way, much less reported on by most of the press than this apparent clash

of personalities is the report released last week by the federal monitor that oversees

the NYPD, a report that found nearly a quarter of the stops of New Yorkers being made

by the mayor's so-called neighborhood safety teams were unlawful.

With us now on the report and the departure of the police commissioner, our WNYC and

Gothamist Public Safety Reporter Samantha Maxx and Spectrum News, New York one criminal

justice reporter Dean Memager.

Hi Samantha and Dean, welcome back to WNYC.

Good morning.

And neither Adams nor Suell has given a reason for her departure publicly, but here's a clip

of the mayor yesterday responding to the perception that he is a micromanager.

Now some people may call it a micromanager, I call it being a mayor of a city that you

love and taxpayers elected me to give them the product they deserve.

So Samantha, can you put that clip into context?

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