“Commissioner Bratton brings unparalleled expertise that will benefit our clients around the globe”. Bratton had recently stated he planned to make this term his last, but appeared as though he would stay on through 2017.
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“I wish I had words for what this man has accomplished”, the mayor said. Bratton will be replaced by NYPD Chief of Department James O’Neill who was born and bred in Flatbush, Brooklyn. He thanked de Blasio for his friendship and for supporting him and understanding the “importance of a seamless transition”.
De Blasio said that O’Neill was intimately involved in the NYPD’s CompStat program as well. And you’ll see what it means in the lives of everyday New Yorkers. “When they actually know the officer who patrols their part of their neighborhood”.
The police commissioner, who served as Los Angeles police chief from 2002 to 2009, was emphatic that his decision to leave the NYPD was unrelated to controversies now facing the department.
He was promoted to sergeant in 1987 and worked his way up to the commanding officer of the 25th and 44th precincts, which he said helped instill his belief in neighborhood policing to fix the sometimes fractured relationships between police and communities.
During his first tenure as commissioner, under Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the early 1990s, Bratton was credited with driving down crime with a widely copied, data-driven, crime-fighting strategy before his brash style made him an annoyance to the mayor, who forced him out.
Meanwhile, various police unions also had mixed reactions to Bratton’s choice to leave.
CITY-Police Commissioner Bill Bratton has announced that he is stepping down. The protesters also demanded restitution to the survivors and victims of police brutality and that the city’s police budget be redirected to minority neighborhoods, CBS New York reports. Quality of life policing is the idea that by heavily enforcing relatively more innocuous laws, like public urination and littering, will lead to increased respect for more serious laws. “We are here for you, the people of this city”.
“That is happening but it doesn’t happen overnight”, he said.
“I have to say I’m really exhausted of the way that people are always asking us to be peaceful”, Nabil Hassein, 27, said. “And it’s a good time for the department and this city”.
“So-called “community policing”, “training” and the rhetoric of “police-community relations” are no solution to the systemic problems with policing in this city and nation”, Communities United for Police Reform, a group that advocates for changing police practices, said in a statement. “And he and I have developed an intense bond over these last 31 months”.
Commissioner William Bratton will resign next month, according to The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, citing sources with knowledge of the departure. “This friendship and this deep, deep connection will continue”.
Bratton informed de Blasio he would be stepping down on July 8, right after they held a press conference to announce the first-half crime statistics for the city.
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Bratton, Mayor de Blasio and O’Neill all credit community policing tactics with helping drop the city’s crime rate to record lows.
