Mayor de Blasio found himself at odds last week with two Police Commissioners: his own, Bill Bratton, and the one who became a key target of his 2013 campaign, Ray Kelly.
In a just-published memoir, Mr. Kelly accused the Mayor of having portrayed cops as “cartoonish villains” and running “against the police” to win election and then of abandoning “a routine and useful policing tool” in the form of stop-and-frisk.
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