Goodbye to Bratton
America’s top policeman leaves at a sobering moment
AFTER two stints heading the New York Police Department (NYPD), as well as running the departments in Los Angeles and Boston, Bill Bratton is leaving public service for a job in the private sector. His legacy is a mixed one. His adopted city is decidedly safer; but the force is not much better liked, particularly by minorities. “I don’t know why he ever came back,” says one former cop, who thinks that second tour of duty in New York tarnished the glow of the first.
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