 Now, Lee Brown wasn't a bad guy. He was a social climbing political animal who always had his eye on the next job. Before arriving at the NYPD, Lee Brown was the public safety commissioner of Atlanta and later the police commissioner of Houston's police department. He was very big into community policing, wasn't a bad guy, but just wasn't around all that much. From 92 to 94, that's when late great David Dinkins was mayor, and he tasked Raymond W. Kelly as police commissioner.