Barbadian-born retired NYPD detective throws hat in race for NYC Council district

NEW YORK (CMC):

A Barbadian-born, retired New York Police Department (NYPD) detective has thrown her hat in the race for the 46th New York City Council District in Brooklyn and has expressed strong confidence that she would emerge victorious.

Dr Judy D. Newton, who retired from the NYPD in 2012, told the Caribbean Media Corporation on Sunday that she’s focused on her campaign, “reaching out to voters in the district and putting a winning team together”.

The 46th District encompasses the Brooklyn neighbourhoods of Bergen Beach, Canarsie, Flatlands, Georgetown, Gerritsen Beach, Marine Park, Mill Basin, Mill Island and Sheepshead Bay.

Newton said her goals and aspirations are “simple: To represent the people of the 46th District, especially working families.

“I’m running on a platform of rebuilding, preserving, and restoring the community and district by putting families first,” she said. “I believe that the damage done to families in the district by the twin pandemics of poverty and COVID-19 are also aggravated by high unemployment, joblessness.

Newton added, “the unintended consequences and fall-out occasioned by these issues need someone who can roll up their sleeves and get to work, putting our families interests first.

“My immediate priority will be to address bread-and-butter, kitchen table and pocket book issues facing families in the district,” she stressed. “If I was not confident of winning, I would not be running. I could not sit idly by and watch my community struggle in pain and go to hell in a basket.”