During an interview with Playboy magazine, NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly claimed the Democratic candidates of New York City's mayoral race were "pandering to get votes" while criticizing his controversial stop-and-frisk policy, CBS News reported.
"I know all these people. They all claimed to be friends of mine until their mayoral campaigns," Kelly said. "They'd call me on the phone and ask for information or come over here and sit in this chair to get briefed."
When the interviewer asked Kelly if he thought all of the Democratic candidates were "full of s---," he responded "absolutely."
"It just goes to show you what some politicians will do," he added. "They'll say or do anything to get elected."
Kelly, who is the longest-serving commissioner in the city's history, is an unapologetic advocate of his stop-and-frisk policy, which has been harshly condemned by civil rights activists as racial profiling and unconstitutional.
Recently elected mayor Bill De Blasio, in addition to several other Democratic candidates, vocally condemned stop-and-frisk.
"Notice what they never talked about, the lives being saved," Kelly said. "You haven't heard one candidate talk about that or what they would do to keep this record going forward."
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised Kelly for the police procedure, most recently on Friday during his radio show.
"Ray Kelly's legacy is the following: 7,500 fewer people shot dead than there would have been if we just had the murder rate when we came in and 7,500, history shows, would almost all be male minorities," Bloomberg said. "So if Ray's legacy is saving 7,500 lives, I'd have a smile on my face if I were him."
A spokesman for Kelly said he does not regret anything he said in the Playboy interview. A spokesman for De Blasio declined to comment.
