In 1994, William Bratton was appointed the 38th Commissioner of the New York City Police Department by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. He had success in this position, and introduced the CompStat system of tracking crimes, which proved successful in reducing crime in New York City and is still used to this day. A new tax surcharge enabled the training and deployment of around 5,000 new better-educated police officers, police decision-making was devolved to precinct level, and a backlog of 50,000 unserved warrants was cleared. The CompStat real-time police intelligence computer system was effectively introduced and integrated into police working. Police numbers were further boosted in 1995 when New York's housing and transit police were merged into the New York Police Department. Bratton left the job in 1996 after alleged personal conflicts with Giuliani.
In 1996, Bratton was featured in a business case prepared by James L. Heskett and published by Harvard Business School (Ref 9-396-293). Bratton's efforts to effectively turn around the New York City Police Department is used by many business schools as a tool for teaching organizational design and change.
But the fact remains, Bratton was not the one that implemented California’s mandatory minimum sentencing guide lines or 3 strikes. I like the other poster feel this was a huge factor.
This is the same Bratton who when asked on LA Radio “why his officers refused to arrest illegal immigrants ...” (special order 40). Bratton angrily told the caller “ the LAPD is out of the immigration business and if the caller did not like it the caller could leave the state ...”
This is just months after this carpet bagger hits town he’s publicly telling Los Angeles taxpayers that if they expect the LAPD to do the job they are paid to do then get the hell out of the state!
Bratton is an ass.
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