Paul Grady is a police officer. He is known for establishing a police bicycle program in Seattle. He is also known for speaking out about being LGBT and a police officer.
The International Police Mountain Bike Association credits Seattle for starting the police bike program. [1] The start was when Seattle police officers Paul Grady and Mike Miller patrolled on their mountain bikes in July 1987. [1]
The program in Seattle was quickly successful. [2]
Grady gave bike training to police in Florida in 1991. [3]
In 1993 Grady resigned from the Seattle police force due to LGBT harassment. [4] He described that other officers left information about AIDS in his workspace in a hostile way. [4] He was one of the undercover police who investigated the gay Monastery church and disco, but police officers ridiculed him for being gay and doing gay-related police work. [4] He was reprimanded for testifying to the state about hate crimes against LGBT people because police are supposed to follow rules for neutrality. [4] At the time he quit there were no other LGBT police officers in Seattle out, and he recommended that none come out or they will be harassed. [4]
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