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Bill Bratton's Broken Policing Is Here to Stay

08/04/2016
Mic

When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio met reporters at City Hall to announce police commissioner Bill Bratton's retirement Tuesday, he stressed the department's shift toward what he called "neighborhood policing," a strategy that encourages officers to engage with people who live in the communities they're patrolling.

"We've tried to redefine our relationship from being the police to being your police," Bratton said.

Disputing Bratton’s record: Mass stop-and-frisk is over but “broken windows” endures in NYC

Arrests are down in the city, but the number of NYers caught up in the system due to "broken windows" is enormous
08/03/2016
Salon

As NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton makes a sudden exit, a heated debate over his legacy continues. Bratton has been criticized for abuses committed by the nation’s largest police department — a department which, thanks to flush funding he secured, has dramatically grown under his watch. But Bratton has also presided over the termination of the NYPD’s most controversial enforcement measure, dragnet stop-and-frisk, which former Mayor Michael Bloomberg had hailed as indispensable to fighting crime.

NYC's next top cop touts strategy to repair rift with public

The career cop picked to lead America's largest police department is embracing a throwback strategy to repair the rift between officers and the public
08/03/2016
Associated Press

The career cop picked to lead America's largest police department is embracing a throwback strategy to repair the deep rift that has opened between officers and the public. He wants patrol officers to get to know people on their beat on a first-name basis.

James "Jimmy" O'Neill was introduced Tuesday at City Hall as the next commissioner of the New York Police Department.

NYPD Commissioner William Bratton to Step Down

New York's top cop is leaving after a sometimes rocky tenure... Read more on JetMag.com: http://www.jetmag.com/news/william-bratton-nypd/#ixzz4GIX6M6ni Follow us: @getjetmag on Twitter | GetJetMag on Facebook
08/02/2016
JET Magazine (blog)

After a rocky tenure in which he brought down crime, but also dealt with tension between police and people of color, New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is leaving his job.

Bratton, whose departure was announced Tuesday, will leave next month to become a risk and security adviser at Teneo, a consulting firm. James O’Neill, the department’s top chief, will replace him as commissioner.

The End of the Bratton Era

A new generation of chiefs favors a lighter touch.
08/02/2016
The Marshall Project

A flood of predictable reactions — from police and protest circles — greeted the announcement Tuesday that New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton is leaving the post in September. The 68-year-old is the most influential American law enforcement executive in modern times, the author of policing strategies that have shaped relations between police and the communities they serve, for better and for worse.

Cop's use of force against Bronx Assemblyman reminder of NYPD reform work to be done

08/01/2016
New York Daily News

On Saturday, Assembly Member Michael Blake, at an event in his district, was forcibly restrained by a NYPD officer while trying to gain information about an incident that was occurring. He was released after a senior officer recognized him as an elected official.

The incident has many remembering a situation that took place in 2011, when I and Kirsten John Foy, who was working for then Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, were detained by police during the West Indian Day Parade.

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