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Article: FORMER NYC POLICE COMMISSIONER DIES.(CAPITAL REGION)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2002
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Byline: Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Benjamin Ward, a one-time street cop who broke down racial barriers to become New York's first black police commissioner in 1984, died Monday at New York Hospital Center in Queens. He was 75.
The cause of Ward's death was not immediately known, police said.
Ward had been found unconscious Friday in his Queens home. He was plagued by chronic asthma, which forced his resignation from the NYPD in 1989.
As police commissioner, Ward oversaw the nation's largest ...