AFTER two stints heading the New York Police Department (NYPD), as well as running the departments in Los Angeles and Boston, Bill Bratton is leaving public service for a job in the private sector. His legacy is a mixed one. His adopted city is decidedly safer; but the force is not much better liked, particularly by minorities. “I don’t know why he ever came back,” says one former cop, who thinks that second tour of duty in New York tarnished the glow of the first.
Mr Bratton transformed the NYPD in the mid-1990s, targeting low-level offences to deter larger ones, and introducing a data-driven real-time “CompStat” crime-fighting system which has been copied across the country. On his first watch, homicides fell by 50% and serious crimes, like rape, by more than a third. He had similar success in Los Angeles, where he cleaned up a scandal-plagued department and repaired relations between the police and the black community, all while lowering crime. His former deputies led police departments in Chicago and Miami. David Cameron wanted him to head London’s Metropolitan Police, until Theresa May...Continue reading
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