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There Is No Epidemic of Racist Police Shootings
A new study debunks a common myth. The Democratic presidential candidates have revived the anti-police rhetoric of the Obama years. Joe...
Aug 1, 20191 min read
Is This What Fear Looks Like?
“Yooo they violated them!! They viiiiolated themmm!!!!” So went the commentary of a woman heard on a now-viral cellphone video showing...
Jul 26, 20191 min read
Who will stand up for police?
When, over a decade ago, I attended a conference on policing in Istanbul, I rephrased a well-known quote from a famous police scholar...
Jul 25, 20191 min read
27 Black Leaders Condemn Dousing of Police
African-American leaders write: “We were appalled at the recent verbal attacks on and water dousing of police officers in Harlem and...
Jul 25, 20191 min read
For police, is AI deception technology a 'truth meter' yet?
By Bill Bratton, as seen in The Hill Artificial intelligence (AI) quickly has become a transformative technology impacting many aspects...
Jul 19, 20194 min read
Homeless in NYC Subways — and the MTA
By Bill Bratton While Governor Cuomo's instructions to the MTA Board (as seen here in the NY Daily News) to do something about the...
Jul 14, 20191 min read
The New Normal
By Bill Bratton New York City is on pace for its lowest murder rate in more than seven decades. NYPD statistics show there were 21 fewer...
Jul 10, 20192 min read
Jun 18, 20190 min read
Like it or not, broken windows works
By: William J. Bratton as seen in the NY Daily News One of the foundations of New York City’s public safety renaissance is falling out of...
Jun 2, 20196 min read
Broken Windows Works
Broken Windows policing receives credit—rightly—for being part of the crime turnaround that saved New York and other cities. The theory,...
Jun 1, 20191 min read
One dangerous bail reform law
As part of this year’s budget bill, the Legislature has passed a measure that will greatly reduce the number of arrested persons for whom...
May 29, 20191 min read
Paging Bill Bratton – you’re needed in Boston
William J. Bratton is the former police commissioner of New York, Los Angeles — and Boston — who became famous for implementing the...
May 28, 20191 min read
May 19, 20190 min read
Knife Crime In Great Britain
By Bill Bratton, as seen in the Daily Mail. There has been much discussion recently among British politicians and police officials...
Mar 9, 20193 min read
Community Policing, Rightly Understood
Over the last quarter of a century, the United States has seen historic drops in crime—most famously in New York. These gains, once...
Feb 19, 20191 min read
Some U.S. police departments dump body-camera programs amid high costs
When East Dundee, a tiny suburb of Chicago, ordered body cameras for its 17 police officers, Terry Mee, the police chief at the time,...
Feb 2, 20191 min read
Precision Policing: A Strategy for the Challenges of 21st Century Law Enforcement
Introduction America has nearly 18,000 police agencies, ranging from two- or three-man resort-town departments that add seasonal officers...
Jan 25, 201923 min read
William Bratton on “Precision Policing”
Former NYPD and LAPD commissioner William J. Bratton joins City Journal editor Brian Anderson to discuss Bratton’s 40-plus-year career in...
Jan 25, 201915 min read
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