William Bratton And The NYPD Summary
Reflection on William Bratton and the NYPD
William Bratton is currently the Commissioner of police in the City Of New York. Prior to this, he had also served the same post from the year 1994 to 1996 during which he bought a heavy decline in the city’s crime rate. During his previous term as commissioner, he embraced the “broken windows” theory which made his administration very successful. This theory stipulates that when a small offence like a broken window on a parked car, larger offenses such as burglary, robbery and assault inevitably follow. Serious crimes can be prevented if a community police’s the little things. While he was still a young police officer in Boston, one of his first strategies was to set up community …show more content…
He summoned precinct commanders to meeting where they are questioned about crimes in their precincts and also account for enforcing the quality-of-life offenses and applauded for reduction of crimes in their commands. Not minding the progress of this new technology, critics have claimed that it encourages police officers to fabricate statistics. Mr Bratton believed that one of the main things needed to prevent crime before it happens was to have timely and accurate intelligence, he saw the NYPD as a private-oriented business and the only profit he hoped to gain was reduced crime and beat his competitors(criminals) for the control of the …show more content…
Bratton’s first tenure as commissioner of the New York City Police department the city as a whole saw a drastic double-digit drop in crime. Major crimes like murder which gave New Yorkers sleepless night declined, in April of 1996 precisely he had a high approval rating from all city dwellers. His effectiveness in handling a department as large as New York City’s became his major influence around the country, after he left the NYPD he became a consultant who specialized in advising police departments around the United states and also the world in General. He set the pace for most retired NYPD police officers as they began to get hired to lead other departments around the
William Bratton is currently the Commissioner of police in the City Of New York. Prior to this, he had also served the same post from the year 1994 to 1996 during which he bought a heavy decline in the city’s crime rate. During his previous term as commissioner, he embraced the “broken windows” theory which made his administration very successful. This theory stipulates that when a small offence like a broken window on a parked car, larger offenses such as burglary, robbery and assault inevitably follow. Serious crimes can be prevented if a community police’s the little things. While he was still a young police officer in Boston, one of his first strategies was to set up community …show more content…
He summoned precinct commanders to meeting where they are questioned about crimes in their precincts and also account for enforcing the quality-of-life offenses and applauded for reduction of crimes in their commands. Not minding the progress of this new technology, critics have claimed that it encourages police officers to fabricate statistics. Mr Bratton believed that one of the main things needed to prevent crime before it happens was to have timely and accurate intelligence, he saw the NYPD as a private-oriented business and the only profit he hoped to gain was reduced crime and beat his competitors(criminals) for the control of the …show more content…
Bratton’s first tenure as commissioner of the New York City Police department the city as a whole saw a drastic double-digit drop in crime. Major crimes like murder which gave New Yorkers sleepless night declined, in April of 1996 precisely he had a high approval rating from all city dwellers. His effectiveness in handling a department as large as New York City’s became his major influence around the country, after he left the NYPD he became a consultant who specialized in advising police departments around the United states and also the world in General. He set the pace for most retired NYPD police officers as they began to get hired to lead other departments around the