{"product_id":"9780316383790","title":"Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eTwo-time New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly opens up  about his remarkable life, taking us inside fifty years of law  enforcement leadership, offering chilling stories of terrorist plots  after 9\/11, and sharing his candid insights into the challenges and  controversies cops face today.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe son of a milkman and a  Macy's dressing room checker, Ray Kelly grew up on New York City's  Upper West Side, a middle-class neighborhood where Irish and Puerto  Rican kids played stickball and tussled in the streets. He entered the  police academy and served as a marine in Vietnam, living and fighting by  the values that would carry him through a half century of  leadership-justice, decisiveness, integrity, courage, and loyalty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKelly  soared through the NYPD ranks in decades marked by poverty, drugs,  civil unrest, and a murder rate that, at its peak, spiked to over two  thousand per year. Kelly came to be known as a tough leader, a fixer who  could go into a troubled precinct and clean it up. That reputation  catapulted him into his first stint as commissioner, under Mayor David  Dinkins, where Kelly oversaw the police response to the 1993 World Trade  Center bombing and spearheaded programs that would help usher in the  city's historic drop in crime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEight years later, in the chaotic  wake of the 9\/11 attacks, newly elected mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped  Kelly to be NYC's top cop once again. After a decade working with  Interpol, serving as undersecretary of the Treasury for enforcement,  overseeing U.S. Customs, and commanding an international police force in  Haiti, Kelly understood that New York's security was synonymous with  our national security. Believing that the city could not afford to rely  solely on \"the feds,\" he succeeded in transforming the NYPD from a  traditional police department into a resource-rich  counterterrorism-and-intelligence force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this vital memoir,  Kelly reveals the inside stories of his life in the hot seat of \"the  capital of the world\"-from the terror plots that nearly brought a city  to its knees to his dealings with politicians, including Presidents Bill  Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama as well as Mayors Rudolph  Giuliani, Bloomberg, and Bill DeBlasio. He addresses criticisms and  controversies like the so-called stop-question-and-frisk program and the  rebuilding of the World Trade Center and offers his insights into the  challenges that have recently consumed our nation's police forces, even  as the need for vigilance remains as acute as ever.","brand":"Hachette Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076858429680,"sku":"9780316383790","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316383790_p0.jpg?v=1769915331","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316383790","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}