Former NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly speaks on the recent shakeup in the department and expresses optimism about the direction under new leader, Commissioner Tisch. He also criticizes the City Council and past administrations for the city's declining quality of life.
She’s headed two major city agencies. She’s an excellent manager. She can be a pretty stern taskmaster. I think we’re on the right track,” he told host John Catsimatidis.
Tisch ousted dozens of NYPD bosses in a shocking Saturday purge, beginning with the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau, a week after The Post revealed that the agency’s highest ranking uniformed police officer, Jeffrey Maddrey, Tisch began her career at the NYPD as a counterterrorism analyst in 2008 under Kelly, the longest serving police commissioner in the department’s history. She eventually became the deputy commissioner of information technology and oversaw the NYPD’s 911 operations before running the city Departments of Information Technology and Telecommunications and Sanitation. Kelly, who served as police commissioner under Mayors David Dinkins and Mike Bloomberg, said there are pressing problems in the NYPD that Tisch is grappling with.Elon Musk changes his tune on H1-B visas as he tries to cool raging MAGA civil war over skilled immigration“The department, having 54,000 people, is always going to have some issues, some problems. But I’m positive about what’s going to happen in the next year,’’ he said.The Big Apple’s former top cop touted what he called the city’s 20-year law-and-order “renaissance” under ex-Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Bloomberg, adding, “People sort of took that for granted.” Kelly claimed the city’s quality of life and crime started to worsen under former Mayor Bill de Blasio, and “I don’t think Mayor Adams has done anything to change that.” He said the City Council has swung too far to the left, citing the influence of the Democratic Socialists of America.”The City Council has been a real problem … for the city and certainly for the police department. They want to tie the hands of the police. They continue to do it. They certainly hurt the quality of life in New York by doing that. These elections are going to be very important,’’ he sai
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