Officers can be trained to bring “softer skills” to resolving problems, but “they’re not social workers, they’re not camp counselors – they’re law enforcement”, Eugene O’Donnell, a professor of police studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said Tuesday.
Advertisement
During his first stint as New York’s police commissioner from 1994 to 1996 under tough-on-crime Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Bratton put the theory into action by cracking down on petty crimes at a time when the city was a far more risky place. Bratton is leaving the nation’s largest police force, after a tenure.
Bratton, who led the department in the 1990s before returning in 2014, noted that he was leaving at a fraught point for police-community relations but said he felt confident in the department’s future.
He was appointed Commissioner of the New York City Police Department for the second time in his career by Mayor Bill de Blasio in January 2014.
“There’s never a good time, but there’s a right time”, said Bratton, who started his career as an officer in 1970 in his hometown of Boston, and still speaks with the accent of a Bostonian.
“Every time I walk down the street, I feel that they could kill me and that they are not going to be held accountable in any way”, he told the station.
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton, who served in the same role in the 1990s, announced on Tuesday that he will retire in September. Bratton’s policing policies have greatly impacted the quality of life in Boston, Los Angeles and here in NY. According to police, the city is on pace for the lowest number of felony crimes in its history in 2016.
Bratton, 68, began his career as a patrolman in Boston in 1970 and built a resume unmatched in local law enforcement, heading police departments in Boston, Los Angeles and NY. “And, as long as I am mayor, I welcome him to continue being police commissioner”. “That’s all we have to say about it”.
The man chosen to replace Police Commissioner Bill Bratton when he steps down in September said his philosophy of policing was first shaped when he worked as an overnight transit officer in gritty, early ’80s NY. The company roster includes longtime experts in fields such as foreign policy and finance, whose talents are put to use advising chief executives in the private sector.
Mayor de Blasio also presented Chief Edward DeLatorre, the borough’s top cop with a proclamation thanking him and Staten Island’s four precincts for the work they do.
But the number of annual stop and frisks did fall under Bratton in NY.
“Luckily in Staten Island we have a lot of civic groups, non-profits, organizations precincts that we all work together”, Marino said.
A federal corruption investigation has recently rocked the NYPD and City Hall.
O’Neill said he would build on the foundations laid by Bratton, but said protests in 2014, which followed the death of an unarmed black father-of-five in custody, and the murder of two officers in December 2014 “signaled that change was necessary”.
Advertisement
Appearing to back up Bratton’s assertion that his resignation was not connected to the federal probe of the NYPD, U.S. Atty.
