From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Mark Shaw  wrote:   
   > https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/us-news/former-nypd-commissione-   
   ernie-kerik-dead-at-69/   
   >   
   >     Ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who was known as "America's   
   >     Cop" and led the city's police department through the 9/11   
   >     terror attacks, died Thursday after he was hospitalized with   
   >     cardiac disease.   
   >   
   >     He was 69 and surrounded by family and friends at the time of   
   >     his death at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital.   
   >   
   >     Kerik, whose high-profile career was peppered with success and   
   >     controversy, shot to prominence when he was named the Big   
   >     Apple's top cop by former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 2000 and   
   >     presided over a 63% drop in violent crime.   
   >   
   >     The 40th police commissioner was also dubbed the "beat cop   
   >     commissioner" for his hands-on leadership style, making five   
   >     arrests during his 16-month tenure as commissioner, including   
   >     one involving two ex-convicts in Harlem driving a stolen van.   
   >   
   >     Kerik, whose law enforcement career spanned four decades and   
   >     involved national security work, helmed the department during   
   >     the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, overseeing response,   
   >     rescue, recovery and investigative efforts.   
   >   
   >     "For nearly two decades, Kerik served and protected New Yorkers   
   >     in the NYPD, including helping rebuild the city in the aftermath   
   >     of 9/11," the Finest said on X.   
   >   
   >     [...]   
   >   
      
   There have been finer than he.   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
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