Bill Bratton on new memoir, policing
Bill Bratton, the former head of the New York, Los Angeles and Boston police departments is out with a new memoir on policing and reforms.
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Bill Bratton, the former head of the New York, Los Angeles and Boston police departments is out with a new memoir on policing and reforms.
Throughout his five-decade career, Bill Bratton, former police commissioner in New York City, Boston and Los Angeles, has been an architect of modern policing in America, instituting reforms that lowered crime and bolstered the bond between the public and the men and women who serve and protect. Now, he fears much of what he helped create is crumbling. Yet, he tells correspondent Mark Whitaker, he has reasons to believe positive change remains possible.
The former police commissioner in NYC, Boston and L.A. spent decades instituting reforms that lowered crime and bolstered the public's bond with those who serve and protect. Now, he fears much of what he helped create is crumbling.
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