Don Kelly Quotations

Traffic accidents have increased 100 percent in the city since the hurricane.

It's taking our officers much longer to respond to an accident because they have to fight their way through all of the traffic just to get to the scene

Now we average 90 accidents a day and often it's as high as 100

With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off.

We're still maintaining a sufficient patrol presence, ... But our patrol force is now getting some much needed rest.

We have not prepared that report, so we don't have any official statistics, yet, ... Right now, no one is monitoring real time crime on a daily basis. All we have is a snapshot from the daily reports. The problem is a snapshot is not always an accurate reflection of the total picture.

get out in the neighborhoods to see if there's anything we need to be concerned about.

Calls for service are up. But that does not equate to an increase in major crime. Things don't seem to be any different than they were before the storm.

I'm just like a little kid out there.

Two or more of the participants in the march -- young men -- had an argument,