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Kerlikowske ran two small police departments in Florida, then became chief of police in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1994. He became Seattle's police chief in 2000 and brought the city's crime rate to a 40-year low, despite a resurgences in youth and gang violence. Kerlikowske has maintained a national profile, paying special attention to gun control, immigration and electronic data mining of private records.
Kerlikowske ran two small police departments in Florida, then became chief of police in Buffalo, N.Y. in 1994. He became Seattle's police chief in 2000 and brought the city's crime rate to a 40-year low, despite a resurgences in youth and gang violence. Kerlikowske has maintained a national profile, paying special attention to gun control, immigration and electronic data mining of private records.
In 1994 he allowed himself to be shocked with 50,000 volts of electricity in order to demonstrate the nonlethal nature of the [[taser]].
In 2004 he allowed himself to be shocked with 50,000 volts of electricity in order to demonstrate the nonlethal nature of the [[taser]].
In 2003, a ballot measure in Seattle was proposed that would have directed the police department to consider marijuana possession (for personal use) a low priority. Kerlikowske opposed the ballot initiative, but said such arrests were already a low priority and that his department was focusing its drug arrests on cocaine and heroin traffickers
In 2003, a ballot measure in Seattle was proposed that would have directed the police department to consider marijuana possession (for personal use) a low priority. Kerlikowske opposed the ballot initiative, but said such arrests were already a low priority and that his department was focusing its drug arrests on cocaine and heroin traffickers
As drug czar, Kerlikowske has emphasized efforts to combat the drug trade in Mexico and its effects across the Southwest.
As drug czar, Kerlikowske will emphasized efforts to combat the drug trade in Mexico and its effects across the Southwest.
==Further reading==
==Further reading==