If you were Ray Kelly, why wouldn't you take the top job at Homeland Security?
That's the question now that Sen. Chuck Schumer has advised President Obama to appoint Kelly to take the place of departing Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano. In a phone call to the White House chief of staff, Dennis McDonough, Schumer said Kelly would make the perfect replacement, because he "knows law enforcement, understands anti-terrorism efforts and is a top-notch administrator."
No argument there.
But why would Kelly leave the job he's done so well for the past dozen years? Chalk it up to Gotham's stunted politics. Right now there's little incentive for one of New York's most successful police commissioners not to move on.
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Of the 10 mayoral hopefuls, only Christine Quinn and John Catsimatidis say they'd keep Kelly on as commissioner come January. And Quinn now says that if Kelly doesn't sharply reduce his use of stop-and-frisk, she'd fire him. (Anthony Weiner says he'd offer Kelly a different job.)
Indeed, what unites the Democratic mayoral candidates is that they are all looking to change the way the NYPD has conducted police work under Kelly. Never mind that he's helped lower crime to record levels. Among their criteria for a police commissioner, success apparently doesn't rank high on the list.
Not that Kelly is Obama's first choice. Though he's held other federal posts — including at Treasury and the Customs Service — hiring Kelly might bring its own embarrassment. How, for example, would the president explain appointing as secretary of Homeland Security a man whose police practices have led Obama's attorney general to call for a court-appointed monitor?
No doubt Kelly will have many tempting offers, which he has earned, to leave. Pity we don't see equally enthusiastic efforts to persuade him to stay.
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