New York City Police Commissioner Resigns Amid Federal Investigation

TIME

New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban resigned Thursday, one week after it emerged that his phone was seized as part of a federal investigation that touched several members of Mayor Eric Adams’ inner circle.  Read more: https://time.com/7020941/new-york-city-police-commissioner-resigns/

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00:00A short time ago, I accepted the resignation of the NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban.

00:08He concluded that this is the best decision at this time.

00:12I respect his decision and I wish him well.

00:17Commissioner Caban dedicated his life to making our city safer,

00:21and we saw a drop in crime for 13 of the 14 months he served as commissioner.

00:29In his time as part of the NYPD during our administration,

00:34we removed more than 18,000 illegal guns off our streets,

00:39had the lowest number of robberies in recorded history in the month of October

00:46in our subway system and throughout the entire last few months,

00:53and just had the lowest number of shootings above ground ever

00:58in the history of recorded history in this city in August.

01:02To ensure crime keeps going down in our city today,

01:05I'm taking immediate action in appointing Tom Donilon as Interim Police Commissioner.

01:11Tom is an experienced law enforcement professional who has worked at the local, state, federal, and international levels.

01:19He served as New York's Director of the Office of Homeland Security,

01:24ran the FBI's National Threat Center and the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force,

01:33and worked as the co-case agent investigating the 1993 Twin Towers bombing,

01:41as well as the attacks in U.S. embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen by al-Qaeda.

01:51He is also a Bronx native.

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