This morning, law enforcement officers raided the home of Jeffrey Maddrey, according to a social media post from Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. According to her post on X from her office’s official account, “the Internal Affairs Bureau of the New York City Police Department is working with law enforcement authorities to investigate allegations” against the NYPD’s former Chief of Department. Tisch’s communiqué also states that authorities “executed search warrants at several locations,” beyond his residence, and that he was suspended as of this morning.
Jeffrey Maddrey joined the force in 1991, climbing the ranks and ultimately reaching chief of patrol in 2021. In 2023, he was promoted to Chief of Department by Mayor Eric Adams, making him the highest-ranking uniformed officer on the force. Maddrey abruptly announced his resignation on December 21st after a subordinate in his office told the New York Post of Maddrey’s alleged sexual misconduct. Lt. Quathisha Epps, who worked under Maddrey in an administrative post, went on to detail in an official complaint how he engaged in “quid pro quo sexual harassment” and that she was coerced to “perform unwanted sexual favors in exchange for overtime opportunities in the workplace.” In an interview with NBC New York last week, Maddrey said that Epps’ allegations against him “are not true,” and called his relationship with her an “office fling.” Epps made over $400,000 in 2024 according to the NYPD’s payroll data, more than half of which came from overtime.
Maddrey has made headlines in the past over allegations from another subordinate, Tabatha Foster, an officer who worked under him when he was inspector at the 75th precinct in Brooklyn. Foster claimed in federal and state-level lawsuits that he made persistent sexual advances, to which she had no choice but to acquiesce, given his position. The suit also claimed that Maddrey beat her when they met in a park in Queens in 2015, after she had resigned from the NYPD, and ordered officers who showed up on scene to leave. Maddrey was found to have lied to Internal Affairs on two counts when they investigated the matter, and was docked 45 vacation days. Both of Foster’s lawsuits were eventually dismissed.
In a press conference yesterday, Mayor Eric Adams stated that he was “extremely, extremely proud” of Maddrey’s record as an officer, while expressing concern for the “troubling allegations” made by Lt. Epps. Adams did not directly answer questions regarding an incident in 2021 where Maddrey had voided an arrest of a former colleague, and also refused to state when he had last spoken to the former chief of department.
