Lynch is married to Kathleen Casey, and has two sons, Patrick and Kevin, both of whom are New York City police officers.
He has been described as "New York City's Blue Bulldog" for being head of one of the largest police unions in the world,[1] having served in this role since 1999 and winning reelection to a fifth term in 2015.
[8] After the autopsy of Eric Garner, who died as a result of a chokehold in July 2014 while being suspected of selling loose cigarettes, he defended the actions of the NYPD officers.
[9] In November 2019, both Lynch and de Blasio criticized Bloomberg's apology for the stop-and-frisk policy which occurred under his administration.
[10] Lynch released a statement that said, in part, “The apology is too little, too late”; "Mayor Bloomberg could have saved himself this apology if he had just listened to the police officers on the street”; “We said in the early 2000s that the quota-driven emphasis on street stops was polluting the relationship between cops and our communities”; and “His administration’s misguided policy inspired an anti-police movement that has made cops the target of hatred and violence, and stripped away many of the tools we had used to keep New Yorkers safe.”[10] On August 18, 2020, Lynch and the PBA endorsed Donald Trump for President in the 2020 United States presidential election, the first time that the union endorsed a presidential candidate, and appeared in the 2020 Republican National Convention.