Overview
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani fired New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda and appointed Edwin Raymond to lead the City Sheriff’s Office, a change announced late Thursday.
- Edwin Raymond is a retired NYPD lieutenant who spent about 15 years on the force, wrote the book An Inconvenient Cop and served as the state attorney general’s first social justice liaison.
- Raymond was the lead plaintiff in a 2015 federal suit that accused NYPD supervisors of pressuring officers to meet arrest quotas that disproportionately affected Black and Latino people; the case was dismissed but is on appeal.
- Anthony Miranda faced a Department of Investigation inquiry over raids on unlicensed smoke shops and reports that seized cash went missing, and the status and outcomes of those probes remain developing.
- The sheriff enforces civil orders, executes warrants and handles seizures separate from the NYPD, so Raymond’s appointment could reshape how enforcement is carried out and how communities view city law enforcement pending the lawsuit appeal and DOI findings.