Mayor Dinkins' Silence on Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly

I recently attended a judicial induction during which two speakers briefly noted the discriminary practices of the New York City Police Department.

Unfortunately, one speaker, former Mayor David N. Dinkins, had nothing to say about the NYPD or about the commissioner he empowered, Raymond W. Kelly. As the mayor who first appointed Kelly to head the NYPD, Dinkins is in a unique position to call Kelly to task for his department's systemic violations of civil liberties in New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Dinkins' continuing public silence about Commissioner Kelly's transgressions is troubling, to say the least.