When NYPD Detective Angel Familia of the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau graduated from the police academy in 2020, he was the first NYPD officer fluent in
NYPD Detective Angel Familia and NYPD Assistant Commissioner of Community Affairs Bureau Alden Foster visit their alma mater, St. Raymond High School for Boys. Photo by Gabriele HoltermannWhen NYPD Detective Angel Familia of thegraduated from the police academy in 2020, he was the first NYPD officer fluent in American Sign Language . He quickly rose through the ranks, becoming an NYPD liaison to the deaf community with Community Affairs.
“I remember being in front of the library, and there was a last-minute switch on who was going to interview me. And that last-minute switch happened to be Alden Foster,” Familia shared.Foster, who graduated from St. Raymond High School in 2005, remembered that Familia only talked about his living situation during the interview but never shared that his parents were deaf.
After the conversation, Foster told Familia that he felt his mother didn’t want him to do “this police stuff,” thinking that the interpreter was Familia’s mother. “What Alden Foster was hearing was the delay of communication. So you first have to speak into the phone, the interpreter has then to interpret to the deaf person, which is my mother. And then my mother has to sign in sign language back to the interpreter, and the interpreter speaks to Alden,” Familia explained.
Familia said having Foster as a mentor was important since there was no verbal communication or career guidance at home. Last year, the NYPD hired over 32 deaf, hard-of-hearing, and young people with vision loss for its Summer Youth Employment program, and this year, the NYPD wants to hire more students with disabilities.
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