The NYPD has too urgent a mission and too few officers for us to waste time and resources on broad, unfocused surveillance. We have a responsibility to protect New Yorkers from violent crime or another terrorist attack - and we uphold the law in doing so.
From Raymond Kelly
In New York City we have the biggest police force in the country. We have 35,000 uniformed officers. We're able to mass officers in significant numbers if we had to.
You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.
As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.
I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to be recorded and it goes to the government. I think the public can understand that.
For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.
A broad base of knowledge is critically important to our ability to investigate terrorism.
If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either.
I don't think I've become arrogant. I'm pretty much the same person. I think the world has changed. I think I'm pretty consistent. Because you stick to what you believe does not make you arrogant.
David Cohen is without a doubt one of the best - if not the best - public servant I've ever encountered.
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