Former NYPD Commissioner Slams Mayor for Endangering City

Mayor de Blasio has endangered New Yorkers’ lives by abandoning stop-and-frisk — an "amazing surrender" rooted in politics, ex-Police Commissioner Ray Kelly charges in a new book.

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Mayor de Blasio has endangered New Yorkers’ lives by abandoning stop-and-frisk — an "amazing surrender" rooted in politics, ex-Police Commissioner Ray Kelly charges in a new book.

“De Blasio shrugged and walked away from a routine and useful policing tool, snatching law enforcement defeat from the jaws of legal victory,” Kelly writes in his memoir, “Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City,” the New York Post reports.

De Blasio swept away stop-and-frisk — a policy police brass instituted in 1990 to let cops search and detain anyone they suspected of committing a crime — as a sop to his core supporters as soon as he took over in City Hall, Kelly says in a scathing critique of the mayor’s law-enforcement policies.

“And who benefited most from our successes?” Kelly writes. “The very people the de Blasio campaign were reportedly speaking for, young minority males especially.”

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