Commissioner william bratton biography
William Joseph Bratton CBE (born October 6, ) is an American businessman and former law enforcement officer who served two non-consecutive tenures as the New York City Police Commissioner (– and –) and currently one of only two NYPD commissioners to do so (the other is Raymond Kelly).!
William Joseph Bratton CBE is an American businessman and former law enforcement officer who served two non-consecutive tenures as the New York City Police Commissioner and currently one of only two NYPD commissioners to do so.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) --William Bratton is back in his old job.
Bratton, whose tenure as commissioner of the NYPD in the 1990s was marked by a steep decline in crime and clashes with then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, has been chosen by mayor-elect Bill de Blasio to lead the nation's largest police department again.
Bratton, who has also led the Boston and Los Angeles police departments, will succeed Ray Kelly, the NYPD's longest-serving commissioner.
Bratton is a U.S.
Army veteran who served in Vietnam. He began his police career in 1970 as an officer with the Boston Police Department.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Boston State College and is a graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute and the Senior Executive Fellows Program at Harvard's John F.
Kennedy School of Government.
Bratton, known for his outsized personality and fondness for the limelight, was police commissioner under Giuliani from 1994 to 1996. He emphasized the broken-windows theory of police w