Donlon filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to appoint a special monitor to oversee the nation’s largest police force.

The former head of the New York Police Department has filed a federal lawsuit against scandal-scarred New York City Mayor Eric Adams and other high ranking NYPD officials, alleging the group used their power and authority to run a what he called a “criminal enterprise.

He’s copping support. Eric Adams’ re-election campaign got some mutual aid from the boys in blue Thursday, as more than a dozen law enforcement unions rallied behind the mayor on City Hall’s steps. Adams,

Eyewitness News anchor Bill Ritter sat down at Gracie Mansion, and interviewed Eric Adams at length about his pledge to stay in the race for mayor, and his thoughts on opponents Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani.

A lawsuit filed by former Commissioner Thomas Donlon alleges that the NYPD’s Community Response Team was a “rogue” unit that answered “only to City Hall.” The complaint draws extensively from ProPublica’s reporting.

Mayor Eric Adams is a “morally corrupt” leader who appointed a band of “clowns” to run the NYPD and should have no place in City Hall now or in the future, former top cop Tom Donlon fumed to The Post Thursday.

The nation’s largest police force is “criminal at its core,” according to a new federal lawsuit by former interim New York City Police Commissioner Thomas Donlon. ABC News' Aaron Katersky reports.