[neverdem]

Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
Eric Adams, a police captain and one of the founders of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care.

[Supernatural]

They are trying to get him because he is black.

[trashcanbred]

Why is it a person employed by the city cannot criticize the city's handling of events but a professor employed by a university can make excessively offensives statements?

[L98Fiero]

"Eric Adams, a police captain and one of the founders of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care."

Maybe they did do him wrong but I'm so tired of these exclusive "no-whites" clubs and organizations that I could care less.

[OldFriend]

His attorney is formerly head of the New York branch of ACLU.

Adams is about to run for public office in NY so he will be off the force anyway.

[Horatio Gates]

According to the charges, Captain Adams, who works at the Sixth Precinct, in Greenwich Village, "did wrongfully divulge or discuss department business without authority and permission to do so."

If that is indeed true as a department SOP violation and Adams in anyway represented himself as a NYPD employee while doing that for an outside organization, I think the NYPD is right. Firing him seems harsh unless this guys been burning bridges for a while. Then again this is a NY Times article so what are they leaving out that we should know?

[JoeFromSidney]

All I can say is, when I was in the Air Force, the rule was simple. If you want to criticize the Air Force, first hang up the uniform, then criticize all you want. So long as you wear the uniform, any criticism must go through channels rather than to the public.