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Benjamin Ward  

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  • Benjamin Ward's route to becoming New York City's first African American police commissioner on January 1, 1984, is more than the traditional story of starting as a police officer and rising to the top job. Along the way he overcame the hostility of White colleagues and achieved a number of firsts in New York City and New York State criminal justice agencies. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Ward, Benjamin (1926–2002)]

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