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Jun 9, 20210 min read
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“Cops Count, Police Matter”
There might not be any worse time in our nation’s history to be a cop. Talk to any police officer who’s worked through this past year and...
Jun 9, 20211 min read
Bill Bratton on American policing and the challenge facing the Boston Police Department
The most successful police chief in recent history recounts his career, the most difficult year for police since the 1960s, and the...
Jun 9, 20211 min read
Making New York less safe: Bills in Albany would make it harder to protect law-abiding
By: William Bratton – as seen in the NY Daily News here The New York State Legislature, the same people who brought you the criminal...
Jun 9, 20213 min read
NYT: Bill Bratton Doesn’t Root for the Bad Guys
A fan of crime novels, the former police commissioner and the author, with Peter Knobler, of a new memoir, “The Profession,” loves...
Jun 9, 20212 min read
The National Book Review: 5 HOT BOOKS
3. The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America by Bill Bratton and Peter Knobler (Penguin Press)...
Jun 9, 20211 min read
Fox News: Defund the police? We're at the center of the storm, doing the jobs no one else wants
By: Bill Bratton as seen in Fox News here. You can’t defund an institution to punish it and think that this action is going to make it...
Jun 8, 20215 min read
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NYT: Bill Bratton Explains His Ideas of Good Policing
THE PROFESSION A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America By Bill Bratton and Peter Knobler On Dec. 20, 2014, two...
Jun 7, 20212 min read
Jun 6, 20210 min read
LA Times: Bill Bratton talks L.A. police, George Floyd and his memoir
Over his three-plus decades running police departments in Boston, New York City and Los Angeles, Bill Bratton branded himself as...
Jun 6, 20211 min read
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Jun 5, 20210 min read
Opinion: As a longtime police chief, I believe we have to reestablish trust
By Bill Bratton Over the past several years, police officers and some of the communities they serve have experienced a crisis of...
Jun 4, 20211 min read
Harvey Schlossberg, Cop With a Ph.D. in Defusing a Crisis, Dies at 85
A psychologist who had worn the blue, he coached thousands of New York City police officers in hostage negotiations, creating a model for...
May 27, 20211 min read
How a commissioner changed the culture within the Boston Police Department
As the BPD faces a new credibility crisis, there are lessons from the corruption crisis of the 1970s. By Chuck Wexler The Boston Police...
May 23, 20211 min read
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