NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell has served one of her highest-ranking employees, Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, with disciplinary charges for abusing his authority in voiding the arrest of a former colleague, but the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer says he will contest the charges in an internal disciplinary trial.
The New York Post first reported Wednesday that Maddrey was served with a formal reprimand and a notice that he would be penalized up to ten vacation days for his 2021 decision to interfere in the arrest of a former underling, Kruythoff Forrester, in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The Civilian Complaint Review Board, a police department watchdog, last month substantiated abuse of authority charges against Maddrey and recommended that be reprimanded.
