{"id":63090,"date":"2025-12-07T04:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63090\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T04:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T04:18:18","slug":"exclusive-mayors-friend-was-responsible-for-care-of-nypd-widows-fraternal-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/63090\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Mayor&#8217;s friend was responsible for care of NYPD widows, fraternal groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime pal of Mayor Adams who was appointed to a plum gig at the NYPD \u2014 and made nearly $300,000 last year \u2013 is retiring.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa White, the controversial deputy commissioner for employee relations since 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/23\/nypd-honcho-lisa-white-ignores-questions-about-relationship-with-eric-adams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rented a room to Adams for four years <\/a>at her Crown Heights apartment before he was elected mayor, and worked with a non-profit group he created to push for fairer treatment of black cops in the department, according to records.<\/p>\n<p>With Adams in City Hall, White went from being a $53,000-a-year 911 call operator for 24 years, to overseeing the mental health and morale of the NYPD\u2019s 35,000 uniformed members \u2014 at a starting salary of about $241,000, records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.69238281;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37854975\" width=\"409\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/eric-adams-lisa-white-dominican-116717025.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Adams and Lisa White at the Dominican Cultural Heritage Reception.\" class=\"wp-image-37854975\"  \/>Lisa White worked with Mayor Eric Adams\u2019 charity group 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care. nypddcer\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>White\u2019s appointment was made by former NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, an Adams appointee herself.<\/p>\n<p>White made a total of $283,963 in fiscal 2024, city records show. She also gets a pension of about $30,000 a year from her 911 job. Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch makes $286,627.<\/p>\n<p>An NYPD spokesperson lauded White\u2019s work at the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeputy Commissioner Lisa White has dedicated her career to serving New York City, and for more than 30 years, she has worked at all levels of the NYPD,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cWe thank her for her service to the department and wish her the very best in her retirement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37854980\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/911-dispatcher-last-paid-53k-2964159.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa White leaving her apartment building at 47 McKeever Place, Brooklyn.\" class=\"wp-image-37854980\"  \/>Mayor Adams friend Lisa White was appointed to the position of Deputy Commissioner of Employee Relations at the NYPD with a six figure salary after retiring her job making $53,000-a-year as a 911 operator.<br \/>\n Gabriella Bass<\/p>\n<p>Her office is also responsible for assisting family members who have lost their police officer loved ones in the line of duty, Detectives Endowment Association President Scott Munro said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was always caring about the line of duty families and the fraternal organizations,\u201d Munro said of the police widows and the dozens of non-profit groups that support police officers. \u201cShe always tried to help them get what they needed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A longtime pal of Mayor Adams who was appointed to a plum gig at the NYPD \u2014 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5302,1092,57,9,24,55,54,56,103,16999,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-63090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-jessica-tisch","9":"tag-mayor","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-salaries","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63090","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=63090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}