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Our Roots

One mission. Three decades. Three names.

We began in New York's Korean-American community in the 1990s. As the work grew, so did the community it served. The name has widened. The purpose has not.

One organization, three names

The name kept up with the community.

The same founders, the same volunteers, the same work. As the people we served grew from one community to many, the name grew with them. This is that story.

KALEAC
Korean American Law Enforcement Advisory Council. The original. Founded to bridge the gap between the NYPD and New York's Korean-American community.
1997
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KAACLE
Korean-American Advisory Council Law Enforcement. The same council, carrying its reputation and its partnerships forward into a new decade.
2000s
→
AALEAC
Asian American Law Enforcement Advisory Council. Incorporated to carry the same mission to every Asian American community in the city.
Today
1992
Five years before there was a name.
A return to roots, not a rebrand

In 1992, our founder was appointed to the Queens District Attorney's Asian American Advisory Council. The pan-Asian idea was there from the very start, half a decade before the council was formally founded. When we became AALEAC, we were not changing direction. We were returning to where we began.

Then to now

Thirty years of showing up.

1992
A seat at the table
Our founder is appointed to the Queens District Attorney's Asian American Advisory Council. The idea of one council for all Asian American communities is born years before it has a name.
1996
Standing with the NYPD before day one
A year before the council is even founded, its organizers give to an NYPD bicycle-safety fund. The partnership came first. The paperwork followed.
1997
The council is born
In September 1997, the Korean American Law Enforcement Advisory Council holds its first general meeting. The mission is simple and it has not changed since: build trust between immigrant communities and the officers who serve them.
1998
Recognized at the top
New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir writes to credit the council by name, pointing to the cooperation between the NYPD and community organizations behind the city's historic drop in crime.
Late 1990s
For the families of fallen officers
The council begins giving to a scholarship fund for the children of officers hurt in the line of duty, in partnership with the NYC Police Benevolent Association. It is a promise the council still keeps today.
2014
Reaching the next generation
Youth safety briefings bring officers and students into the same room for honest talks about drugs, bullying, and staying safe. The bridge gets built early.
2021
When hate rose, we did not stand alone
As anti-Asian violence climbed, the council took to the streets beside the NYPD and our neighbors under one banner, Let's End Hate Crime Together.
2024
Twenty-six years with the PBA
The council presents a scholarship check to the President of the NYC Police Benevolent Association, continuing a partnership for the families of fallen officers that began in 1998.
2025
Still packing the hall
Hundreds of Asian American seniors fill banquet halls for our anti-scam seminars, an NYPD officer at the front of every room. A generation of elders goes home safer.
Today
One mission, every community
As the Asian American Law Enforcement Advisory Council, we carry the same work to every Asian American community in New York. The same trust, built one neighbor at a time.
Recognition

Trusted at every level of the city and state.

For more than twenty-five years, the council's work has been recognized in writing by the FBI, the NYPD, two mayors, the governor, and the district attorneys who know it best. A few of those letters are below. Click any one to read it.

FBI· NYPD· NYC PBA· NYC Mayor· NY Governor· Queens DA· Richmond County DA
NYPD Police Commissioner
Howard Safir · 1998
NYC Mayor
Rudolph W. Giuliani · 2000
NY Governor
David A. Paterson · 2009
FBI
Citizens' Academy · 2005
Queens District Attorney
Asian American Advisory Council · 1992
Richmond County DA
William L. Murphy · 1998