James O'Neill

Dermot Shea has been appointed to become the next NYPD commissioner despite his past of being accused of racial profiling in a major rape case.

Civil rights lawyers said the coincidentally timed collision of the NYPD firing Eric Garner's killer with Jay-Z's social justice partnership with the NFL combined a begrudging chorus of "what took so long?" with the realization that while some semblance of justice had been established, it was still largely elusive.