Mayor Bill de Blasio attributed the drop in school crime to efforts created to ease tense situations before they get out of hand.
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Despite his ceremonious departure Bratton is not without critics, who say he remained overly committed to a policing approach focused on small crime that many hold unfairly targets people of color.
Bratton’s second stint in NY has been met with criticism following community tensions with the police force, most notably in response to Eric Garner’s death at the hands of officers in July 2014.
Bratton got his start as a beat cop in Boston back in 1970 and rose through the ranks to become BPD’s police commissioner. Giuliani was the first mayor to put Bratton’s controversial Broken Windows Theory into practice. “But we cant do that unless we achieve full partnership with the community”.
He’s known to go by “Jim” or “Jimmy”.
As of September 11, the NYPD has registered 242 homicides, 3.6 percent less than at the same time previous year, according to the city’s policing statistics. “I am absolutely certain the best is yet to come both in terms of the relationship between police and community and in terms of lowering crime”. He also created and implementing CompStat, a system that tracks crime patterns throughout the city. Bratton later resigned and moved out west to head the Los Angeles Police Department. Bratton is leaving to become a risk and security adviser at Teneo, a consulting firm.
Bratton was then ceremoniously driven into retirement in a 1930 Mack emergency services unit vehicle.
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A caller also expressed concerns about the controversy surrounding Politico’s discovery that the NYPD paid Officer Daniel Pantaleo, the officer who put Staten Island man Eric Garner in a chokehold that led to his death, almost $120,000 ($23,000 overtime and almost $13,000 in unspecified extra cash). The 68-year-old will be replaced by the current Chief of Department James O’Neill. “So going forward, officers on modified duty will not have the opportunity for overtime unless it is signed off by the chief of department”.
