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...being discharged. After a few years of working in Saudi Arabia as a hired gun in various security-related jobs, he became a cop, working first in Passaic, N.J., where he was the county's youngest jail warden ever. In 1986 he fulfilled a longtime dream and joined the NYPD...
...Kerik worked his way slowly up the NYPD food chain, as both a uniformed and a plainclothes cop. He earned a reputation as flashy, intense, sometimes emotional and usually effective. "I was booming doors, chasing the Cali cartel, getting into gunfights and doing all kinds of crazy stuff," he once recalled. At the funeral of a cop in 1989 he met Giuliani, and the two bonded after Kerik became the candidate's weekend driver during the 1993 campaign. "Look," Kerik told Giuliani at the time, "you're going to spend the next two years in your...
...Starting in 1994, Bratton wasted no time. A former Boston police chief, Bratton decentralized the stovepiped NYPD, put more cops on the street and did block-by-block crime analysis, deploying patrols to hot spots. By the end of his first year, crime had declined by 12%; in 1995, it fell 17% more...
...York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has backed off comments he made earlier this week while accepting an award from the School of Public Health that criticized a dead NYPD officer considered a 9/11 hero...
...details from past plots can be used to better identify new ones was demonstrated in a recent study by New York Police Department patching together commonalities of foiled jihadist activity in both the U.S. and Europe. One increasingly common aspect in many plots, the NYPD report notes, is the frequent presence of converts - whose zeal to prove their dedication to Islam can propel some into underground extremist activity facilitated sometimes by their physical appearances. "In politically incorrect language, they don't look like Muslims to most people, and the freedom of movement and lack of suspicion that affords is used...