“Being the youthful little one, it wasn’t my duty to offer for my older brothers and sisters,” Mr. Adams mentioned. “Eric and my older brother Conrad, they type of took that duty on.”
On Oct. 31, Bernard Adams advised his neighbor in Mechanicsville, Va., outdoors of Richmond, that if his brother gained the election, he can be in New York Metropolis to assist him. On election evening, Bernard Adams launched the mayor-elect.
Mr. Adams graduated in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in felony justice from John Jay School of Felony Justice. Throughout his years on the Police Division, he rose to the rank of sergeant, overseeing a workers of greater than 40 as commanding officer of group affairs for Queens North.
Throughout his 13-year tenure at Virginia Commonwealth College, Mr. Adams “didn’t present government safety companies,” Thomas Gresham, a college spokesman, mentioned. His most up-to-date place there was as assistant director for parking at one of many college’s two important campuses.
A present job posting for that place, on the college’s well being campus, the Medical School of Virginia, says its obligations embody “proactively figuring out and resolving points associated to each parking and transportation on the M.C.V. campus.” The job additionally requires overseeing “the enforcement operation and Operations Heart on the M.C.V. campus.” The place doesn’t require its occupant to hold a weapon.
Mr. Gresham mentioned the job entails, amongst different obligations, “the enforcement of the college’s parking guidelines and rules.”
Keith Taylor, a former undercover narcotics detective after which detective sergeant who supervised an Emergency Service Unit on the New York Police Division, described the mayor’s protecting element as an “elite” task usually given to veterans of emergency service items and detective bureaus.