With just three weeks left in office, Mayor Adams is filling slots on the city’s independent police watchdog board with members seen as being more supportive of cops — slotting in a retired NYPD inspector on Thursday after putting in a new interim chair earlier this week.

Together, the appointments to the Civilian Complaint Review Board of Kevin McGinn and Interim Chair Pat Smith , an ex-journalist, tee up the possibility of a clash between democratic socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and the NYPD’s unions should Mamdani move to void the appointments.

“I have said for years that public safety and justice are the prerequisites to prosperity — and, in our city, having a strong Civilian Complaint Review Board is vital to achieving it,” Adams said in a Thursday statement announcing

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