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Two-time New York City law enforcement commissioner Ray Kelly starts up about his remarkable life, taking us inside 50 years of law enforcement command, offering chilling stories of terrorist plots after 9/11 and sharing his candid insights in to the issues and controversies cops face today. The child of any milkman and a Macy's dressing-room checker, Ray Kelly was raised on New York City's Upper Western Side: a middle-class community where Irish and Puerto Rican kids played out stickball and tussled in the roadways. He entered the police academy and offered as a sea in Vietnam, living and fighting by the ideals that would hold him by having a half century of command - justice, decisiveness, integrity, courage, and commitment. Kelly soared through the NYPD ranks in decades proclaimed by poverty, drugs, civil unrest, and a murder rate that, at its maximum, spiked to over 2,000 per year. Kelly came to be known as a hardcore head, a fixer who could go into a troubled precinct and clean it up. Inside the chaotic wake of the 9/11 attacks, newly elected mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped Kelly to be NYC's top cop once again. After a decade working with Interpol, offering as undersecretary of the Treasury for enforcement, overseeing US Traditions, and commanding a global police in Haiti, Kelly realized that New York's security was synonymous with this national security. Thinking that the location could not afford to rely solely on the feds, he been successful in changing the NYPD from a traditional police office into a resource-rich counterterrorism-and-intelligence drive. In this vital memoir, Kelly unveils the inside stories of his life in the hot seat of the capital of the world - from the terror plots that nearly helped bring a city to its legs to his dealings with politicians, including presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama as well as Mayors Rudolph Giuliani, Bloomberg, and Bill DeBlasio. He addresses criticisms and controversies like the so-called stop-question-and-frisk program and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and offers his insights in to the challenges that have recently used our nation's law enforcement forces, even as the need for vigilance remains as serious as ever.
