Tag: William Bratton

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Opinion: In the Post-Defund the Police Era, Restoring Public Safety Requires “Precision Policing”

Our nation’s law enforcement officers are faced with new challenges and are expected to perform as if these challenges do not exist, on even tighter budgets. That is why we’ve adapted the Precision Policing framework to today’s reality by launching Precision Policing 2.0.

April 20, 2022

Command

Bratton: I Would Not Take a Chief's Job Today

Bratton said the sentiment in major cities toward law enforcement reminds him of the 1970s when similarly progressive policies led to surges in crime and violence.

June 16, 2021

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Former Chief Bratton: Biden "Uniquely Qualified" to Deal with Police Reform

“They're [Biden-Harris] very mindful of the need for not only law and order, which somehow or another has become a dirty word in this country, but law and order and justice. What’s being asked for with criminal-justice reform is reform of the criminal-justice system. So you can have law and order, but you can have justice at the same time, and I think the president-elect is uniquely qualified to fill that bill,” Bratton said.

November 13, 2020

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Bratton Retires After Decades in Law Enforcement

Commanders lined up in formation outside of New York Police Department headquarters to bid farewell to the 68-year-old Bratton as he left the building for the last time as commissioner.

September 16, 2016

Weapons

NYPD Commissioner Bratton Blames Lax Gun Laws for Chicago Murder Spike

Bratton agreed with Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson, who recently said, "If we had the gun laws in Chicago that L.A. and New York have we would see our violent crime cut in half."

September 12, 2016

Training

NYPD Commissioner Bratton Steps Down

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, chief of the nation's largest police department, is quitting his high-profile job, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.

August 2, 2016

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NYPD Commissioner Says Police Plagued by People Filming Arrests

The United States is suffering from an "epidemic" of people recording law enforcement officers making arrests, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said Wednesday.

May 26, 2016

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Bratton Advises New Yorkers on How to Not Get Shot by Police

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has some simple advice for New Yorkers – if you don’t want to get shot by cops, don’t point a gun at them.

April 29, 2016

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NYPD Officers Unhappy and Feel Less Safe, Union Survey Shows

Roughly 87 percent of cops said the Big Apple has become “less safe” since the new administration took over at the beginning of 2014, with 55 percent of those respondents describing New York City as “a lot less safe.”

March 17, 2016

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NYPD Working to Handle Homeless Problem

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton on Monday urged New Yorkers to harden their hearts and close their wallets if they want to help stem the city's vagrancy crisis.

November 10, 2015

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LAPD Police Chief & NYC Police Commissioner Bet on Dodgers vs. Mets

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck and New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton have placed public bets with each other over the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. New York Mets battle for the National League Championship Series.

October 7, 2015

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Bratton Aims to Stay Step Ahead of Watchdogs

On the same day the inspector general for the police issued a report detailing deficiencies in how force is defined and tracked by the New York Police Department, Commissioner William J. Bratton announced on Thursday that many of the changes called for were already being addressed.

October 5, 2015