The new sheriff in town\u00a0has a long history of claiming the NYPD is systemically racist \u2014 including\u00a0tying\u00a0 slave patrols to modern policing.<\/p>\n
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday announced Edwin Raymond\u2019s <\/a>appointment as NYC sheriff, saying he \u201crepresents the kind of public servant New Yorkers deserve.\u201d principled, courageous and deeply committed to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n But Raymond, a retired NYPD lieutenant and agency whistleblower, is as radical as socialist Mamdani, has made\u00a0 a string of divisive statements \u2014 and as a cop, once gave a domestic violence a slide because he was black, The Post can reveal.<\/p>\n NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s hand-picked new sheriff, Edwin Raymond, has a long history of claiming the NYPD is systemically racist \u2014 including trying to tie slave patrols to modern policing. Pacific Press\/LightRocket via Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201cFrom slave patrols, some people feel this thing was never designed to work,\u201d said Raymond in an interview segment posted later Friday on X <\/a>by End Wokeness.<\/p>\n \u201cSo slave patrol were basically, militias, if you will, during the time when slavery was legal, whose job was to catch runaway slaves. And after the Civil War, many of them literally just rolled over into police departments,\u201d added Raymond, claiming the NYPD and other police departments are byproducts of the 17th and 18th-century, state-sanctioned patrols.<\/p>\n In his 2023 book \u201cAn Inconvenient Cop,\u201d Raymond doubled down, saying \u201ctoday\u2019s police force is the kin of the slave patrols of the nineteenth century and the Black Codes of the Jim Crow South.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnyone who knows their history understands that it\u2019s no exaggeration to draw a straight line from there to here,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe NYPD model has been packaged and sold by politicians and top cops in New York who have made millions off it.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2015, Raymond and 11 other black and Hispanic cops made headlines by filing a federal lawsuit against the NYPD, accusing Transit Bureau supervisors of mandating arrest quotas of people of color.<\/p>\n \u201cEdwin Raymond represents the kind of public servant New Yorkers deserve: principled, courageous and deeply committed to justice,\u201d Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement Friday.\u00a0 Lev Radin\/ZUMA \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n The NYPD adamantly denied the allegations. The case was dismissed, but is currently under appeal.<\/p>\n In 2017, the NYPD launched an internal probe against Raymond for giving a domestic violence suspect a slide for being Black.<\/p>\n The investigation resulted in Raymond being found guilty of failing to make arrests, improper supervision, and failing to maintain activity logs, for which he was penalized 20 vacation days, according to disciplinary records posted by 50-a.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n During a 2024 interview, Raymond, 40, claimed Eric Garner\u2019s 2014 chokehold death by an NYPD cop over hawking untaxed cigarettes was all about racism and meeting quotas.<\/p>\n