Lloyd George Sealy (January 4, 1917 – January 4, 1985) was the NYPD's first African-American officer to graduate from the FBI National Academy and the first African-American officer in the NYPD to make rank as the commander of a police station in 1963 serving the 28th precinct in Harlem.
He was also the first African-American officer to serve as Assistant Chief Inspector and Borough Commander serving the Patrol Borough of Brooklyn North (which included historical African-American communities such as Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brownsville, Weeksville, Clinton Hill, Fort Greene, and East New York, among others) in 1966.
[1] After Sealy's retirement from the NYPD in 1969, he became the first African-American Associate Professor of Law and Police Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.,[2] and a founding member of NOBLE,[3] a national organization of African-American police officers from various American cities.
[4] To address this problem, they proposed increased minority recruitment, human services training, and citizen participation in law enforcement.
The Special Collections there house his personal papers, which document his career as a police officer and a scholar.