Raymond Kelly
Raymond Kelly
Raymond Walter "Ray" Kellywas the longest serving Commissioner of the New York City Police Departmentin its history and the first person to hold the post for two non-consecutive tenures. A lifelong New Yorker, Kelly had spent 47 years in the NYPD according to its website, serving in 25 different commands and as Police Commissioner from 1992 to 1994 and 2002 to 2013. Kelly was the first person to rise from Police Cadet to Police Commissioner, holding all of the department's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLaw Enforcement Officer
Date of Birth4 September 1941
CountryUnited States of America
I don't watch cop movies much. I TiVo shows. I watch every Larry David show.
You can't separate the two, being a parent, being a cop.
The federal government is doing less than it is lawfully entitled to do to protect New York City, and the City is less safe as a result.
It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.
I don't stretch enough. I know I should do it more, and I'd like to do yoga, but I just don't have time.
For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.
I don't think I have the demeanor to be a politician. I'm used to making decisions and to a certain extent being in charge.
You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.
If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either.
I'm a nice guy, but people want to kill me.
I don't think I've become arrogant. I'm pretty much the same person. I think the world has changed. I think I'm pretty consistent. Because you stick to what you believe does not make you arrogant.
The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.
I think, as a nation, we didn't learn our lessons from the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. We should have been more careful in a whole host of areas.
Today the ATF took decisive steps to bring down an armed and dangerous militia group that was charged with conspiring to cause civil unrest.