But the mayor and Mr. Bratton had a symbiotic and occasionally warm relationship, with Mr.de Blasio sometimes defending the commissioner to aides upset by his remarks and eating pizza with him late at night.
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Bratton previously served under Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the mid-1990s. The outgoing top cop rounded out his tenure with a strong defense of Broken Windows-the controversial theory that aggressive policing of low-level violations reduces crime overall.
But the mayor stressed that incoming Commissioner James O’Neill will bring “together a strategy of neighborhood policing in the modern world” through greater contact and coordination with local community leaders. Bratton, who steps down on Friday, Sept 16, 2016, was perhaps best known as a fierce advocate of the “broken windows” approach to policing, which he insisted drove down the city’s crime rate to historic lows.
FILE – In this December 21, 2014 file photo, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, second from left, is flanked NYPD Chief of Department James O’Neill, left, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, at a Mass for two slain officers at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in New York. The 68-year-old is also veteran of the Boston and Los Angeles police departments.
Bratton is scheduled to be leave police headquarters with a ceremony at 3 p.m. (1900 GMT) on Friday.
An assortment of anti-Bratton demonstrators gathered a short distance from police headquarters to label the outgoing commissioner a racist whose “broken windows” policies unfairly targeted minorities. Bratton suggested the report was the work of “amateurs”.
NEW YORK (AP) – William Bratton, the police commissioner who led departments in Boston, Los Angeles and New York and saw his crime fighting strategies copied across the nation, ended his unparalleled law enforcement career with a ceremonial send-off Friday in the city that was the setting of his biggest triumph.
NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton stepped down this afternoon, following the announcement last month that he’d accepted a post as executive chairman of risk management for an worldwide consulting firm. His next job will be at the consulting company Teneo Holdings.
The pressure group New Yorkers Against Bratton said that past year NY saw over 29,000 arrests for fare-beating and nearly 124,000 summonses. If you would like to discuss another topic, look for a relevant article.
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