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...NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton is open to a second shot at being the city’s top cop. Bratton — who led the NYPD for two years under Mayor Giuliani in the 1990s and has staked at least a partial claim to the drop in the city’s crime rate — has met recently...
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...city as big as New York. Maybe time has tempered Mr. Bratton’s ego; maybe not. Most of all, everyone should remember that it is Bill Bratton who more than anyone else is responsible for New York being as safe as it is today—the conclusion I came to in researching...
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...which way you look at it giuliani owes all of his success as mayor to bratton. I'd rather him be the mayor, but o.k., if Bill Bratton wants to be police commissioner, I'm for that, too. Use an RSS reader to stay up to date with the latest news and posts from...
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Bill Bratton, the former NYPD commissioner who famously was tossed by Rudy Giuliani in the mid-1990s, is on hand in a packed Governors' Room at City Hall— upstairs in the rotunda— for the unveiling of the former mayor's portrait.
The pair, after more
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On the night before Christmas, former police commissioner Bill Bratton finally received an answer to his longstanding dinner invitation to Ray Kelly.
In a cryptic text message (Kelly still refused to actually speak to Bratton), Kelly wrote that an
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at the Los Angeles Unified School District are beginning.
Re-elected Mayor Antonio
Villaraigosa talks with
community leaders at the Pit Fire Pizza
Company in North
Hollywood. (David Crane/Staff Photographer)
Despite all evidence to the contrary, Los
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Despite all evidence to the contrary, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa insists this past year was one of the best in his nearly six years as the city's chief executive.
Forget that he lost his biggest ally and the source of the city's success in reducing
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Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his wife Veronica must be feeling pretty smug. They have forced out the Police Foundation's longtime and conscientious executive director Pamela Delaney.
Kelly had groused that Delaney was earning too much money,
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Shortly before Bill Bratton gave up his LAPD badge to take a far more lucrative job back east in the private sector, I stood with him in his Parker Center office downtown chatting about who would replace him.
While he wouldn't confirm then and there
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police officer, whose identity was being withheld, was killed as he rode a motorcycle in Atwater Village on his way to work in the Northeast Division early Wednesday.
Declaring "I will not let you down," Police Chief Charlie Beck took the oath of
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Charlie Beck, Los Angeles's newly appointed chief of police, is a cop's cop.
For a city that's lived through seven years of his rock star predecessor, Bill Bratton -- whose outsized abilities came with an ego to match -- it's a definite
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So Rudy Giuliani is apparently not running for governor and is dithering about whether to try for the Senate.
We've lived through this melodrama before.
A decade ago, after months of indecision following his battle with prostate cancer and his split
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In the tumultuous days after 9/11, while his nemesis Rudy Giuliani established himself as a bona fide American hero, Bill Bratton, the city’s former police commissioner, stood very much on the outside. He was working with the private security group
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Charlie Beck, the top choice of Mayor Villaraigosa and outgoing chief Bill Bratton to assume the top job in the LAPD, was confirmed by the LA City Council for that position this week.
After some wrangling about the mechanics of the interview process,
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Police Commissioner William Bratton announcing resignation with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in 1996.
Bill Bratton is back in New York - but this town may not be big enough for the former NYPD commissioner and his old boss, Rudy Giuliani.
Having just
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We've spent a lot of time recently celebrating the reign of Bill Bratton, whose LAPD legacy -- less crime, more accountability, closer ties between officers and neighborhoods -- is rooted in his promotion of community policing.
The chief's send-off
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FALLS CHURCH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Altegrity Security Consulting (ASC) CEO William J. Bratton will be
honored this week, on Saturday, Nov. 7, by the Los Angeles Police
Foundation at True Blue--the foundation's annual signature event--for
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The union that represents rank-and-file LAPD officers quickly endorsed the nomination of Charlie Beck to be the next police chief. The Los Angeles Police Protective League represents the nearly 10,000 sworn members of the LAPD.
League president Paul
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Bill Bratton turned in his badge, keys and his uniform's silver stars Saturday in a ceremony marking the official end of his seven years as Los Angeles police chief.
Bratton, who is leaving for a private-sector job, handed over power to interim chief
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disgrace, a department in free fall and how they could get out from under the consent decree."
In every police chief job he'd taken, Bill Bratton was known for putting his personal stamp on the agency, changing the color and style of police cars and
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During his seven years as police chief, Bill Bratton had many words for criminals and troublemakers — calling them knuckleheads and nitwits. And he repeated his mantra "cops count, police matter" throughout his years on the force. Now he's moving back
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NPR
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Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton has called himself "America's Top Cop." Bratton led police departments in Boston and New York before moving to L.A. Now, after seven years leading the LAPD, he's leaving his post. Host Michel Martin speaks to
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The Los Angeles Police Commission has recommended a trio of finalists to replace Police Chief Bill Bratton. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa must now choose between three high-ranking LAPD officers.
Michel Moore, Charlie Beck, and Jim McDonnell have all
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Deputy Chief Michel Moore, the top cop in the San Fernando Valley, was grilled early Thursday by the Police Commission, as interviews to succeed LAPD Chief Bill Bratton entered their second day.
Moore, who commands the Valley Bureau, was to be followed
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“I’m not going to select commissioners right now. I think making those recommendations ahead of time, there are a number of people out there, you’d want to cast as wide a net as possible and try to come up with the best person, (to) , you know,
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LAPD Chief Bill Bratton speaks at one of the many events marking his departure. Bratton leaves as head of the department on October 31st to take a job with a global security firm in New York.
Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton Friday delivered an
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As he makes his final rounds across the city, Police Chief Bill Bratton cautioned Thursday against reductions in the Los Angeles Police Department and said he hopes his successor will come from within the agency.
groups. It will complete plans to bring
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* U.S. justice system has become more severe on sex crimes
* Some U.S. states had sought death penalty for child rape
* Famous director could land in jail two years or more (Adds comments from L.A. police chief and prison agency)
If Los Angeles
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needs to be part of the communities they protect."
With a class of 37 police recruits poised to begin training in October, the City Council debated Tuesday whether Los Angeles really needs a 10,000-officer force during a financial crisis.
While Mayor
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LAPD Chief Bill Bratton has been frantically hunting for a home in Manhattan before his resignation takes effect on Oct. 31. Bratton and wife Rikki Klieman — who last month announced that they were moving back to New York after he accepted a big-bucks
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The Los Angeles City Council Wednesday confirmed former U.S. Attorney Debra Wong Yang as a member of the Police Commission. The mayor appointed Yang to the civilian panel, which sets policy for the LAPD.
Yang joins the five-member police commission at
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FALLS CHURCH, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Altegrity Security Consulting's soon-to-be CEO, Los Angeles Police
Department (LAPD) Chief William J. Bratton, was honored by the Queen of
England last week for helping the United States and the United Kingdom
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LAPD Chief Bill Bratton today received an award from the United Kingdom making him an Honorary Commander of the British Empire.
In a ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., Ambassador Sir Nigel Shewinwald bestowed the award to Bratton. The
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LAPD Chief Bill Bratton today received an award from the United Kingdom making him an Honorary Commander of the British Empire.
In a ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., Ambassador Sir Nigel Shewinwald bestowed the award to Bratton. The
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LAPD Chief Bill Bratton today received an award from the United Kingdom making him an Honorary Commander of the British Empire.
In a ceremony at the British Embassy in Washington, D.C., Ambassador Sir Nigel Shewinwald bestowed the award to Bratton. The
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Scholarship funds a way to remember the fallen
At their Westtown home, Bill and Mary Bratton talk about their daughter Michelle, who died at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. She was 23.Times Herald-Record/DOMINICK FIORILLE
MIDDLETOWN — Eight
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South L.A. residents speak at Police Commission meeting seeking the public's input on the next LAPD chief.
The Los Angeles Police Commission continues its series of meetings Thursday to seek public comment on who should replace Bill Bratton as chief of
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He started out with the weakest poll numbers. He raised the least amount of money. But he won the most endorsements from elected officials and political organizations -- and he’s gunning hard for a surprise win on Election Day.
Richard Aborn, a fierce
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New York Daily News
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Our campaign for Manhattan DA has received many endorsements - like Congressman Jerry Nadler, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, Former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton, to name a few - but today it's an anti-endorsement I'm particularly proud to
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The Los Angeles Police Commission Thursday held another in a series of open meetings to find out what qualities people want in a new police chief. Bill Bratton will leave at the end of October.
KPCC’s Frank Stoltze reports on last night’s meeting in
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Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department Bill Bratton is flanked by Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (L) and Police Commission member John Mack (R) as he announces that he will resign from the department to head of a private security firm on
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Police Tuesday promised to reverse a spike in crime in South Los Angeles. KPCC’s Frank Stoltze reports.
Frank Stotlze: In the last couple of months, homicides in South L.A. jumped from 21 during the same time last year to 38. Police Chief Bill Bratton:
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teaches business ethics at the University of Redlands. He led the White House project to reinvent government from 1993 to 1999. E-mail him at bobstone17@gmail.com.
Appearances matter. Where there's smoke there's fire. If it looks like a duck and quacks
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Governing
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Patrolmen's Benevolent Association spokesman Al O'Leary swore up and down last week, as well as forward, backward and sideways, that the PBA's plan next month to name former police commissioner Bill Bratton its Man of the Year signaled no disrespect
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USIS, which renamed itself Altegrity last month, has ambitions of becoming much more than an investigation and data-collection company.
Altegrity announced two weeks ago that Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton, best known for reducing crime in
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The Washington Post
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Former NYPD Top Cop Bill Bratton hasn't worked in the Big Apple since 1996 but that doesn't mean he still isn't a popular guy around these parts, especially with the NYPD.
Bratton, the outgoing LAPD Chief, is to be honored next month as the NYPD's
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It's proving to be quite a homecoming for Bill Bratton.
Not only did he receive national headlines over retiring as chief of the Los Angeles police department and returning to New York to head a private security firm but he is to be honored next month
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Boston native Bill Bratton, who announced his resignation last week after seven years as Los Angeles police chief, was not an old-fashioned cop but rather a new-fashioned one, a manager who demonstrated what smart law enforcement can do. A brash boy
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Boston Globe
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Los Angeles was stunned at the news. L.A. Police Department chief William Bratton was stepping down, less than halfway through his second term, to take a job in the private sector. Even Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who Bratton has partnered with so
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Like Mark, I'm exceptionally impressed with Bill Bratton. Given the state of the LA police department before he hit town, the city really ought to erect a statue to him somewhere. I mean, a BIG statue.
The weirdest part of Bratton leaving, however,
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