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William Bratton

William Joseph "Bill" Bratton CBE (born October 6, 1947) is an American law enforcement officer, businessman who served two terms as the New York City Police Commissioner (2014–2016 and 1994–1996). He has previously served as the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department (BPD) (1993–1994) and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) (2002–2009).

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I'm sorry, but any police department in America that tries to function without some form of 'stop an ...

“If the police in 1997 had been pulled back from the assertive policing, the community-based polic ...

“left the officers no choice.”

“We have a very robust counter-terrorism operation here in LA, similar to New York and Washington ...

“We are taking the unprecedented step of sharing what we can with you, but I am not about to give ...

“The reality is, kids today ... may in fact have sampled drugs some time in their life. Does that ...

“You have more police officers in the year 2000 for a problem that is much less. It's like giving ...

“Money that is spent here, even if allocated to Los Angeles, the county, the region, and the state ...

“For the safety of all the public, for the safety of our officers, we need to understand intimatel ...

“Bombastic pronouncements are expected on the anniversary of terrorist incidents like Sept. 11, .. ...

“We can no longer rely on the federal government to be our principal source of information, ... Th ...

“nobody who knew much about the true facts of this case, or about John, expected him to be removed ...

“I was just at a conference of police chiefs. It was all everybody was talking about.”

“won't have a calming effect.”

“In the car chase capital of the world, this device is a very appropriate device. It reduces the n ...