NYPD Chief Jeffrey Maddrey resigned after allegations he demanded sexual favors for overtime pay, prompting Mayor Adams to call the claims "alarming."

The latest scandal to rock the New York City Police Department (NYPD) is one that no one saw coming. Jeffrey Maddrey, the department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, stepped down from his position on Friday, Dec. 20, after being accused of sexual misconduct.

As Mayor Eric Adams has done at the end of every year, he talked to Eyewitness News anchor Bill Ritter on Monday about the year that has gone by, and the year ahead.

The nation's largest police department is embroiled in a high-level shakeup amid the crisis engulfing Mayor Eric Adams and his administration. On Friday night, the highest-ranking uniformed officer of the New York City Police Department abruptly resigned as he faced accusations of sexual misconduct.

Adams and a militarized squadron of NYPD officers, clad in tactical gear and armed with weapons escorted Luigi Mangione to a Manhattan courthouse in a very over-the-top perp walk.

Maddrey, the city’s top uniformed cop, was accused by Lt. Quathisha Epps in a formal complaint of forcing her into a sexual relationship and routinely preying up on her, asking for sex in NYPD headquarters, in exchange for overtime.

When the New York Police Department’s top uniformed officer abruptly resigned Friday following sexual abuse allegations, it was the latest major shakeup in Jessica Tisch’s short month running the NYPD. And it follows a pattern of what critics have called belated steps toward competence in Mayor Eric Adams’ administration.

At a roundtable for Jewish reporters at City Hall on Dec. 19, New York City Mayor Eric Adams discussed his record on crime, including antisemitic hate crimes, and lauded the ways that he has elevated Jewish public servants in his administration.

The NYPD is still working to identify the woman who was set on fire while she slept on the New York City Subway last weekend.

Calil, the 33-year-old undocumented migrant accused of setting fire to a woman who was asleep while riding a New York City train, was arraigned Tuesday on charges