Ray Kelly Quotes

We Were Scarecrows In Blue Uniforms. After A Grand Total Of Five Days Of Blackboard Instruction And Fifty Rounds At The NYPD Firing Range, My New Police Academy Classmates And I Were Standing Out On The Sidewalks Of Central Brooklyn Pretending To Be Police Officers. They Gave Us Badges. They Gave Us Handcuffs. They Gave Us Guns - Standard Police-issue Smith & Wesson .38 Specials. They Told Us, "Good Luck." In Early July 1966, Riots Had Broken Out In East New York, Bedford-Stuyvesant, And Brownsville, Brooklyn. Hundreds Of Angry Young Men Were Roaming The Streets And Throwing Bottles And Rocks. Already They Had Injured Police Officers And Attempted To Flip Over A Radio Car. On One Corner, Police Found Eighteen Molotov Cocktails. The Borough Commander Was Calling For Reinforcements - And Fast.

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