A high-ranking Westchester County police official who allegedly acted, with her husband, as her gangbanging son’s getaway driver at the scene of a Bronx shooting was fired Tuesday, officials announced.
Jennifer Lackard was canned from her post as the deputy police commissioner with the Mount Vernon Police Department just hours after she was busted for the bizzare family affair that the family allegedly planned out over a string of text messages.
Her immediate termination was directly tied to her criminal charges in aiding her 20-year-old son and “Slutty Gang” member in a bizzare family affair that also landed her son’s girlfriend in cuffs, sources said.
“Effective immediately, the City of Mount Vernon has terminated Jennifer Lackard’s employment,” the department said in a release.
“The allegations are unrelated to her duties with the Mount Vernon Police Department and do not stem from any conduct associated with the Department or the performance of her official responsibilities.”
Police say Lackard — a boss with the department’s Wellness Unit — and her husband, James Lackard, drove their gun-toting son, Chase Lackard, to Concourse on June 29 at 11:57 a.m. so he could fire at rival gang members, according to an indictment.
Chase Lackard, 20, texted his mother directing her to be in front of the Hall of Justice as soon as he left — with the former police commissioner allegedly giving him advice on carrying out the crime.
“You can’t just sit directly outside. It has to be timed right,” Jennifer Lackard allegedly instructed her son.
James Lackard was in the driver’s seat when Chase Lackard rolled down a window and discharged the semiautomatic firearm multiple times onto the public street toward other unnamed individuals, the documents allege.
The family then allegedly peeled off, stopping outside their home to change Chase Lackard’s clothing before going back inside.
Nobody was injured in the shooting, police said.
All three Lackards were charged with a slew of charges, including attempted murder, conspiracy and reckless endangerment.
Lackard was arraigned Tuesday on a grand jury indictment. Her bail was set at $75,000 and she is due in court Sept. 25.
Chase was waiting arraignment Tuesday afternoon.
His father, James Lackard, has not yet been arrested, with sources saying he is out of state.
Lackard’s alleged corruption is a sign of the “total dysfunction” of the Mount Vernon Police Department, argued Damon Jones, a 33-year veteran of the Westchester County Department of Corrections and publisher of Black Westchester Magazine.
“This is f–king embarrassing! I am embarrassed as a black law enforcement officer to see the dysfunction in a city that has a black mayor, a majority of black city council, a majority black police department that we have to see continuing dysfunction and just foolery in an organization that should be so professional,” Jones told The Post.
Lackard should have never been appointed to her leadership post, Jones continued, pointing out that her social work background was insufficient to kickstart the Wellness Unit of the troubled police department.
“Unfortunately, we see this with Democrats that they put people in positions — especially in law enforcement positions — that they shouldn’t be there,” said Jones.
Lackard was appointed as the Deputy Commissioner of the Wellness Unit when it was created in 2022.
At the time, she told News 12 that the precinct would respond to constituents suffering from mental health issues without implementing traditional police tactics.
“A lot of the people we encounter are in a mental health crisis. Some are combatant, some are really, really aggressive and some are not. And some are frequent fliers because they don’t have support,” Lackard said.
The mom raked in $138,219 with the police department last year, according to SeeThroughNY.
Her son started his gangbanging while she was on the job — including when he pointed a gun at cops during a dispute in 2024.
Chase Lackard, a reputed member of the “Slutty Gang,” was shot twice in the leg by police and was later charged with criminal use of a firearm and menacing a police officer.
Only a year earlier, her troubled son, then 17, was also shot in the chest on a Bx5 bus in Soundview after fighting with three other youths, cops said at the time.
Chase Lackard allegedly flashed gang signs at the boys and then asked for their gang affiliation before allegedly trying to drag one of them off the bus.
One of them then shot him in the chest.
His mother has no prior criminal record.
