NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly Defends Stop-And-Frisk In Appeal To Public
With lawsuits pending over department’s stop-and-frisk policy and Muslim surveillance, the police commissioner turns to the media to vigorously defend his record as the city’s top cop
With his law enforcement legacy hanging in the balance, New York City’s police chief has turned to the media to defend his most controversial initiatives.
It began with an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal and posted online Monday night and followed with an MSNBC appearance on Tuesday morning. In both instances NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly vigorously defended his record as the city’s top cop, arguing that under his supervision the department has saved thousands of lives and prevented another terrorist attack, while strictly adhering to the law.
Kelly compared the number of murders in New York City in the 11 years before mayor Michael Bloomberg came to office, 13,212, to the number of murders in the last 11 years of his administration, 5,849, and concluded that the department was responsible for preventing 7,383 homicides. Despite removing “tens of thousands of weapons” from the streets – while murder rate fell to the lowest level in half a century – critics are still not satisfied, Kelly complained.
“To critics, none of this seems to much matter,” the commissioner wrote. “Sidestepping the fact that these policies work, they continue to allege that massive numbers of minorities are stopped and questioned by police for no reason other than their race.”
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