{"id":106,"date":"2023-11-15T22:29:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=106"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:03:24","slug":"louis-molina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/louis-molina\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Molina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Unions representing the guards in New York City jails were supporters of Eric Adams’s campaign for mayor, so when he was elected, Rikers-watchers were curious to see whether the mayor would embrace some of the guards’ union agenda: less oversight, more guards, avoiding the legal commitments to close Rikers. Adams appointed Louis Molina as correction commissioner. A fellow former NYPD cop, Molina had, in the interim, held leadership positions in New York City jails, Westchester jails, and the Las Vegas Public Safety Department. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of Molina’s first moves as head of the City’s jails was to fire<\/a> the well-respected deputy commissioner for intelligence, investigations and trials\u2014the person tasked with rooting out misconduct among jail staff, who union officials felt<\/a> was “overzealous.” Molina replaced her with his former NYPD squad commander, who eventually resigned under pressure<\/a> after the federal court monitor overseeing Rikers discovered he’d been leaning on DOC investigators to let violent guards off easy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Adams and Molina constantly remind anyone who will listen, Rikers was a human rights catastrophe long before they came along\u2014that’s what led to the landmark civil rights lawsuit and settlement that put Rikers under the watchful gaze of a court monitor in the first place. But while the monitor initially held out “cautious optimism<\/a>” that Molina was serious about reforms, that ended for good this year when the monitor discovered Molina had been misleading him<\/a> about incidents of violence in the jails. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Molina did not respond to requests for comment posed through City Hall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n