1. William Bratton previously served as the Commissioner of the Boston Police Department and Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.
41 Facts About William Bratton
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William Bratton was recruited to lead the LAPD in 2002, following a period when the LAPD was struggling to rebuild public trust after a series of controversies in the 1990s.
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William Bratton presided over an era of reform and crime reduction.
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In January 2014, William Bratton returned to the post of police commissioner in New York, and served until September 2016.
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William Bratton has served as an advisor on policing in several roles, including advising the British government and is currently the chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council for the US government.
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William Bratton advocates having an ethnically diverse police force representative of the population, being tough on gangs and maintaining a strict zero tolerance policy toward anti-social behavior.
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William Bratton attended Boston Technical High School, graduating in 1965.
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William Bratton returned to Boston in 1970 to start a police career in the Boston Police Department, and was sworn in as an officer in October 1970.
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In October 1980, at the age of 32 and ten years after his appointment to the BPD, William Bratton was named as the youngest-ever Executive Superintendent of the Boston Police, the department's second highest post.
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William Bratton was dismissed as executive superintendent after he told a journalist that his goal was to be the Police Commissioner.
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William Bratton was reassigned to the position of Inspector of Bureaus, a sinecure which was responsible for liaison with minority and LGBTQ communities.
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Between 1983 and 1986, William Bratton was Chief of Police for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, following which he became Superintendent of the Massachusetts Metropolitan District Commission Police.
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William Bratton was Superintendent in Chief of the Boston Police Department from 1992 until 1993, then he became that city's 34th Police Commissioner.
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William Bratton became the chief of the New York City Transit Police in 1990.
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In 1994, William Bratton was appointed the 38th Commissioner of the New York City Police Department by Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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William Bratton cooperated with Giuliani in putting the controversial broken windows theory into practice.
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William Bratton introduced the CompStat system of tracking crimes in New York City.
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William Bratton resigned in 1996, while under investigation by the Corporation Counsel for the propriety of a book deal that he signed while in office as well as accepting multiple unauthorized trips from corporations and individuals.
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William Bratton worked as a private consultant with Kroll Associates, known as LAPD's Independent Monitor, until his appointment by the Mayor of Los Angeles James Hahn as the LAPD's 54th Chief of Police in October 2002.
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William Bratton has been criticized for his extensive travel; in 2005, he was out of town for a full third of the year on both official and personal business.
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In March 2009, Councilman Herb Wesson proposed an amendment to the City Charter, allowing William Bratton to serve a third consecutive term as Police Chief.
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William Bratton said he received a phone call from UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and that he would continue speaking with British officials to formalize an agreement.
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William Bratton was approached by British Prime Minister David Cameron to become the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner in July 2011, but Theresa May and the Home Office said that the commissioner was required to be a British citizen.
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William Bratton instead was offered an advisor role to the British government, which he accepted in August 2011.
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William Bratton worked closely with New Orleans chief Anne Kirkpatrick with funding provided by the New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation.
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William Bratton co-founded and served as CEO of William Bratton Technologies, which operates BlueLine, a law enforcement communications network modeled after LinkedIn.
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In 2009, after stepping down from his post in Los Angeles, William Bratton moved back to New York City to take a position with private security firm Altegrity Risk International.
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On September 16,2010, William Bratton became the chairman of Altegrity, a corporate risk consulting firm that declared bankruptcy after defrauding the US Government of millions of dollars.
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In 2010, William Bratton was sworn in as a new member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council.
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On November 5,2012, William Bratton joined Crest Advisory, a UK-based law enforcement consulting firm.
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In 2016, William Bratton joined the CEO-advisory company Teneo Holdings as Senior Managing Director and Executive Chairman of their Teneo Risk division, which specializes in computer security, infrastructure security, corporate security, smart city planning, emergency management, and counterterrorism.
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In May 2018, William Bratton was appointed to the Board of Directors of Mission Ready Solutions Inc.
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William Bratton and Kelling argue that low-level disorder is often a greater worry to residents than major crimes, and that different ethnic groups have similar ideas as to what "disorder" is.
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William Bratton and Kelling advocate both effective enforcement and lenient punishment for minor crimes.
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William Bratton has stated that racial tensions and distrust of the police are hindrances to reducing crime.
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William Bratton argues that stop-and-frisk is a useful tool that should be used in moderation.
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William Bratton supported reducing it on the grounds that it was causing tension between the police and minority groups and that it was less needed in an era of lower crime.
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William Bratton's most recent book, The Profession: A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America, written with Knobler, was a 2021 New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.
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William Bratton is currently married to attorney and TruTV analyst Rikki Klieman, and has one son, David, from a prior marriage.
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William Bratton was previously married to attorney and Boston Police spokeswoman and newscaster Cheryl Fiandaca.
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William Bratton received an honorary degree from New York Institute of Technology.