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NYPD Chief of Patrol Nicholas Estavillo (Ret.), (born March 13, 1945) is a former member of the New York Police Department who in 2002 became the first Puerto Rican and the first Hispanic in the history of the NYPD to reach the three-star rank of Chief of Patrol.
Edward A. Caban (born September 8, 1967) is an American police officer who served as the New York City Police Commissioner from 2023 to 2024, having been appointed by Mayor Eric Adams, and resigning amidst federal corruption investigations into the Eric Adams administration. [1] [2] He was the first Latino to serve as Commissioner of the NYPD. [3]
On August 25, 1998, Pérez, then age 31 and a nine-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, was arrested for stealing six pounds (2.7 kg) of cocaine from a department property room. (The theft was originally suspected to be an attempt at framing fellow officer Frank Lyga in retaliation for the shooting of Pérez's friend, Kevin Gaines ...
First Puerto Rican chief of patrol of the New York City Police Department. Sanford Garelik: No image available: Chief inspector: 1918–2011 1940–1979 First Jewish chief inspector of the New York City Police Department. Martin Golden: 1950– 1973–1983 Later became a member of the New York City Council and the New York State Senate. Sonny ...
2013, Hispanic Heritage Achievement Award from the New York Police Department; 2012, Grand Marshall of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City; 2012, Aspira of New York Circle of Achievers Award; 2012, TrendSetter Award from Latino Trends Magazine; 2011, Effective Leadership Award by the Latino Center on Aging
At the time, the NYPD and the New York Transit Police were separate entities. The New York City Transit Police Department was a law enforcement agency that existed from 1953 (with the creation of the New York City Transit Authority) until 1995. [5] In the early 1980s, many male transit police officers still viewed women as undesirable partners.
By 1953, Puerto Rican migration to New York reached its peak when 75,000 people left the island. [11] Ricky Martin at the annual Puerto Rican parade in New York City. Operation Bootstrap ("Operación Manos a la Obra") is the name given to the ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century engineered by Teodoro ...
Puerto Rican boys playing softball in Brooklyn's Highland Park in 1974. Between 1943 and 1960 over 1 ⁄ 3 of Puerto Rico's population moved predominantly to the Northern United States cities of New York City, Philadelphia and Chicago. Puerto Ricans, along with their descendants born in the US, faced poverty and over-policing in the urban areas ...