{"id":212849,"date":"2026-04-28T17:40:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212849\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:40:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:40:39","slug":"news-12-bronx-former-nypd-chief-of-department-announces-run-for-nyc-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/212849\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Former Nypd Chief Of Department Announces Run For Nyc Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Former NYPD Chief of Department John M. Chell has announced his candidacy for 2029 in a <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JohnMChell\/status\/2048769533632995363\" rel=\"nofollow\">video<\/a> on his social media. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He says he is registered as an independent and has ideas \u201con both sides.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cNothing to lose and everything to gain here\u201d says Chell in his candidacy video. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Chief Chell was the NYPD\u2019s highest-ranking uniformed officer when he was appointed by Commissioner Jessica Tisch back in December of 2024. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Chell retired from the force in October last year after about 30 years of service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former NYPD Chief of Department John M. Chell has announced his candidacy for 2029 in a video on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-212849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}