Raymond Walter Kelly was born on September 4,1941 and is the longest-serving Commissioner in the history of the New York City Police Department and the first person to hold the post for two non-consecutive tenures.
41 Facts About Raymond Kelly
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Raymond Kelly was the first man to rise from Police Cadet to Police Commissioner, holding all of the department's ranks, except for Three-Star Bureau Chief, Chief of Department and Deputy Commissioner, having been promoted directly from Two-Star Chief to First Deputy Commissioner in 1990.
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Raymond Kelly was a Marine Corps Reserve colonel, director of police under the United Nations Mission in Haiti, and an Interpol vice president.
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In March 2011, New York Senator Chuck Schumer endorsed Raymond Kelly to become the next director of the FBI, and in July 2013, he endorsed Raymond Kelly to become Secretary of Homeland Security.
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In 2015, the New York Post reported that Raymond Kelly was considering a run for New York City Mayor, citing his "Love for New York City".
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Raymond Kelly graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration from Manhattan College in 1963.
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Raymond Kelly holds a JD from the St John's University School of Law, a LL.
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Raymond Kelly has been the recipient of honorary degrees from Marist College, Manhattan College, the College of St Rose, St John's University, the State University of New York, New York University, Iona College, Pace University, Quinnipiac University, St Thomas Aquinas College and the Catholic University of America.
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Raymond Kelly is a fashionable dresser, favoring custom-made shirts that he takes to Geneva, a shirtmaker, for laundering.
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Raymond Kelly met his future wife Veronica on the beach at Island Park, New York, where his family had a summer residence.
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Raymond Kelly is the father of Greg Raymond Kelly, former co-host of the local Fox morning television show Good Day New York.
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Raymond Kelly received his commission as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in 1963.
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Raymond Kelly joined the New York City Police Department as a police trainee in 1960.
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Six years later in 1966, Raymond Kelly was appointed to the entry level rank of Patrolman.
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Raymond Kelly graduated first in his class from the New York City Police Academy and passed the sergeant's test upon returning from Vietnam.
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On February 9,1990 Raymond Kelly was appointed First Deputy Commissioner during the administration of Mayor David Dinkins.
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At 9 am on his first full day as Police Commissioner, Raymond Kelly was on the "black-owned" radio station WLIB for 40 minutes talking to host Art Whaley, as well as callers, to discuss minority recruitment.
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Raymond Kelly showed himself a master of outreach and even attended black church services in an effort to recruit minority policemen.
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The murder rate in New York city had declined from its 1990 mid-Dinkins administration historic high of 2,254 to 1,927 when Raymond Kelly left in 1994, and continued to plummet even more steeply under Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg.
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The first World Trade Center terrorist attack occurred on February 26,1993 while Raymond Kelly was police commissioner under Mayor Dinkins and Raymond Kelly led his department through the investigation of the bombing.
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Himself a former street cop, Raymond Kelly was concerned about the semi-automatic pistols' propensity for sustaining firearm malfunctions.
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Coincidentally, Giuliani and Raymond Kelly had known each other for a long time; they were two years apart at Manhattan College three decades previously.
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Bloomberg and Raymond Kelly continued to place heavy reliance on the CompStat system, initiated by Bill Bratton and since adopted by police departments in other cities worldwide.
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Under Bloomberg, Commissioner Raymond Kelly revamped New York City's Police Department into a world-class counter-terrorism operation, operating in conjunction with CIA.
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One of Raymond Kelly's innovations was his unprecedented stationing of New York City police detectives in other cities throughout the world following terrorist attacks in those cities, with a view to determining if they are in any way connected to the security of New York.
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Under Mayor Bloomberg, Raymond Kelly's NYPD incurred criticism for its handling of the protests surrounding the 2004 Republican National Convention, which resulted in the City of New York having to pay out millions in settlement of lawsuits for false arrest and civil rights violations, as well as for its rough treatment of credentialed reporters covering the 2011 Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
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In 2012, Raymond Kelly oversaw the rollout of the Domain Awareness System, a computer system used for Police surveillance in New York City.
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Raymond Kelly determined he was no longer the target he once was.
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Raymond Kelly served as Director of the International Police Monitors of the Multinational Force in Haiti from October 1994 through March 1995.
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Raymond Kelly was awarded the Commander's Award for Public Service by then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen.
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From 1996 to 1998, Raymond Kelly was Under Secretary for Enforcement at the United States Department of the Treasury.
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Raymond Kelly served on the executive committee and was elected Vice President for the Americas of Interpol from 1996 to 2000.
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From 1998 to 2001, Raymond Kelly served as the Commissioner of the US Customs Service, where he managed the agency's 20,000 employees and $20 billion annual budget.
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In 2001, Governor George Pataki appointed Raymond Kelly to serve as chairman of the troubled New York State Athletic Commission.
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Raymond Kelly resigned in 2002 to focus on his duties as police commissioner.
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Raymond Kelly was Senior Managing Director for Corporate Security at Bear Stearns from 2000 to 2001.
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Raymond Kelly worked as the head of the New York office of Investigative Group International, a private investigations firm.
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Raymond Kelly, a retired Marine Colonel, was appointed as the Grand Marshal of the 95th annual Veterans Day parade in New York City in 2014.
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In July 2013, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that she was resigning and Raymond Kelly was immediately cited as an obvious potential successor by New York Senator Charles Schumer and others.
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The next day, Raymond Kelly said he was "flattered" by Obama's praise but otherwise refused to confirm or deny whether he was interested in the Secretary position.
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Since becoming Police Commissioner, Raymond Kelly has served as the Honorary President of the Police Athletic League of New York City a non-profit youth development agency that helps inner-city children and teens.