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Grand jury expected to indict ex-national security adviser John Bolton for transmitting classified documents The NYPD ’s highest ranking Hispanic cop reflected this week on how much more diverse the department has become since his retired-lieutenant father served decades ago.
“There’s a photo that I have in my office of my father as a police officer doing some recruiting across the street from the Apollo Theatre — at the time when there weren’t many Hispanics on the job,” said Rivera. “I have that up on my office wall as a reminder, to remind me of my roots and the sacrifices of the people that came before me,” said Rivera, who is Puerto Rican.The NYPD is now 36% hispanic with roughly 15,000 officers — a huge increase from when his father, retired Lieutenant Andrew Rivera, became a cop in the early1960s.Dem NJ gov hopeful keeps changing her story about Naval Academy cheating scandal“Starting off, when I entered in 1961, there were probably no more than 150 Hispanic police officers,” the elder Rivera told The Post. “Now, we make up about a third of the patrol force. That’s amazing.”The NYPD is now 36% percent Hispanic.It’s important for Hispanic folks to see high ranking people of their heritage so they know “the community has a seat at the table,” said Rivera, who started his career as at the 46th precinct in 1996 and returned as commanding officer in 2014.The proportion of Latino officers in the NYPD now is actually higher than the percentage of Latinos in city’s the general population, which is 27.1%, according to data from the City Comptroller’s office.Co-host shares theory about why 'embarrassed' Molly Qerim really left ESPNRikki SchlottBackstage at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2025: How models are getting ready for the runwayMeghan Markle compares herself to Obamas as she details future of Netflix partnershipSee All
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