Waves of retirements in the NYPD have opened the door for the next generation of officers, which includes an increase in immigrant officers.

“This country is the land of opportunity,” Captain Akim Alam said.

For Alam, that belief brought him to the city from Bangladesh in 2000. Six years later, he started wearing an NYPD uniform.

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Retirements in the NYPD have opened the door for the next generation of officers, which include an increase in immigrant officers

August’s graduating class is the largest since 2016

Nearly a quarter of the recruits were born outside the U.S., including 44 from Bangladesh

Fritz Umbach, an NYPD historian, says waves of immigrants have defined the department for more than a century, from Irish and Italian officers in the 1800s to Puerto R

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