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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Bernard B. Kerik |
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Franklin Lakes, New Jersey , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | [Link] |
 X (Twitter) | BernardKerik |
| Born |
September 04, 1955
(69 years)
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| Contributor | *crickets chirp* |
| Last Modifed | Chronicler
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| Info | When two hijacked airliners struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Bernard B. Kerik was at the scene within moments. As the police commissioner of New York City, he worked with Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to coordinate rescue efforts at ground zero, ensuring the city's safety and reassuring Americans with his strength, determination, and leadership.
The September 11 attacks marked the latest and most visible in a series of extraordinary challenges Bernard Kerik has faced throughout his career. From the sagging row houses of Paterson, New Jersey, to the cocaine fields of Columbia, from the razor wire of Rikers Island to the streets of New York City, Kerik has dedicated his life to a single goal: to fight injustice.
Before becoming one of the youngest jail wardens in the nation, Kerik earned a third-degree black belt in tae kwon do, built an extensive background in anti-terrorism, and spent several years working in the Middle East for Saudi Royalty. In 1986, he gave up his warden's position and accepted a substantial pay cut to take the job he had always coveted, a New York City police officer. Starting as a beat cop in Times Square, he went on to become a fearless narcotics investigator and undercover detective who bought drugs in Harlem, seized millions of dollars of cocaine from the drug lords of the Cali cartel, and earned one of the NYPD's highest honors, the Medal of Valor, for saving the life of a fellow officer.
In 1995, his prior success in correction facility management led newly elected Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to tap him for an executive level position in the city's Department of Correction. With an innovative management style and reputation as a hands-on leader, he quickly made his way to the very top of the agency, appointed Commissioner of Correction in 1998. Introducing corporate strategies into civil service, he turned an agency regarded as unmanageable into a national model, cutting inmate violence by 93% and dramatically improving operational efficiency.
In 2000, he brought his management theories to the largest municipal police department in the United States, accepting Mayor Giuliani's appointment as New York City's 40th Police Commissioner. He ends his tenure at the helm of this 3.2 billion dollar, 55,000 employee organization with crime down another 12% since his arrival, improved officer morale and police/community relations at an all time high.
And yet, Bernard Kerik's most personal battle was not pitched on tough city streets but within himself as he uncovered the greatest unsolved case of his life - the tragic mystery of his own mother, who abandoned her young son forty-one years ago. His incredible odyssey is chronicled in his #1 best-selling book, The Lost Son: A Life In The Pursuit Of Justice.
On February 13, 2002, Queen Elizabeth II bestowed onto Bernard Kerik and honorary CBE, Commander of the British Empire.
Most recently, Bernard Kerik served as senior policy advisor to the U.S. presidential envoy to Iraq after being appointed as Iraq's interim minister of interior by President George W. Bush. Arriving in Baghdad just days after the coalition forces invaded the city, he immediately set about the task of rebuilding Iraq's 100,000 member police, fire, emergency services, customs and immigration and border force, the largest international re-construction project of its kind.
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