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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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0:00.0 | Mr. New York, Mark Simone, is on 710 W0R. |
0:06.4 | Well, hey, it's Friday. That's good news. |
0:08.8 | We got a lot to get to this hour. |
0:11.0 | We lost Bernard Carrick. |
0:13.5 | I didn't realize he'd been not well recently, some heart trouble, and passed away yesterday. |
0:19.7 | The age of 69 police commissioner, Bernard Carrick, who it was a great guy in real life. |
0:25.8 | He had been before that, the commissioner of the corrections department and was considered |
0:32.0 | the greatest ever at that. |
0:34.6 | Rikers Island, always a total violent disaster. He really, really cleaned it up. Like |
0:40.3 | 95% of the violence in Rikers Island stopped, did an incredible job there. Then he actually |
0:48.9 | at one point, and he was in the police department, at one point was a driver for Rudy Giuliani. |
0:55.1 | Now, this is not unusual. |
0:56.2 | There are a lot of times where a driver has gone on to big things. |
1:00.3 | He's not the first police commissioner to rise up that way. |
1:03.6 | And I think George Pataki had been a driver for, believe it or not, Nelson Rockefeller. |
1:09.0 | You learn a lot sitting next to the guy in the car, |
1:12.2 | 12 hours a day, seven days a week, but Carrick went on to be the police commissioner. |
1:17.3 | He didn't serve a long time. |
1:18.5 | It was just, I think, two years. |
1:20.1 | But it was an amazing two years. |
1:24.1 | He was the commissioner on 9-11 at police headquarters, just blocks from the World Trade |
1:29.1 | Center when the planes hit. And you remember those incredible pictures, him and Rudy and Pataki |
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