The Turnaround: How America's Top Cop Reversed the Crime Epidemic
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679452516 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 329 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Matthew O'Connell said A great read. A brilliant leader.. Commissioner Bratton is the definition of a leader. This book is a must read for anyone interested in policing. He made me think about some ideas and strategies that I never thought of before. He exposes the inefficiencies and culture that paralyzed police leaders in the past. He created an environment that praised creativity. Plus its fun to hear the stories of the political nature of police leadership. Stor. Andrew Everett said I'm a believer. I decided to read this book when Bill Brattonwas hired as Chief of Police in Los Angeles.This book reads like an autobiography, from Bratton'schildhood in Boston, until after his falling out withGuiliani. Through his experiences, I learned a lotabout police work.Critics say that Bratton's success in New York wasconcurrent with a nationwide drop in crime (presumablydue to a strong economy) and thus isn't such . DMM said Very interesting book when combined with Timoney and Kelly books. Very interesting book when combined with Timoney and Kelly books about NYPD one gets an interesting perspective on the reduction in crime.
When Bill Bratton was sworn in as New York City's police commissioner in 1994, he made what many considered a bold promise: The NYPD would fight crime in every boroughand win. It seemed foolhardy; even everybody knows you can't win the war on crime. But Bratton delivered. In an extraordinary twenty-seven months, serious crime in New York City went down by 33 percent, the murder rate was cut in half--and Bill Bratton was heralded as the most charismatic and respected law enforcement official in America In this outspoken account of his news-making career, Bratton reveals how his cutting-edge policing strategies brought about the historic reduction in crime.Bratton's success made national news and landed him on the cover of Time. It also landed him in political hot water. Bratton earned such positive press that before he'd completed his first week on the job, the administration of New York's media-hungry mayor Rudolph Giuliani, threatened to fire him. Bratton gives a vivid, behind-the-scenes look at the sizzle and substance, and he pulls no punches describing the personalities who really run the city.Bratton grew up in a working-class Boston neighborhood, always dreaming of being a cop. As a young officer under Robert di Grazia, Boston's progressive police commissioner, he got a ground-level view of real police reform and also saw what happens when an outspoken, dynamic, reform-minded police commissioner starts to outshine an ambitious mayor. He was soon in the forefront of the community policing movement and a rising star in the profession. Bratton had turned around four major police departments when he accepted the number one police job in America.When Bratton arrived at the NYPD, New York's Finest were almost hiding; they had given up on preventing crime and were trying only to respond to it. Narcotics, Vice, Auto Theft, and the Gun Squads all worked banker's hours while the competition--the bad guys--worked around the clock. Bratton changed that. He brought talent to the top and instilled pride in the force; he listened to the people in the neighborhoods and to the cops on the street. Bratton and his "dream team" created Compstat, a combination of computer statistics analysis and an unwavering demand for accountability. Cops were called on the carpet, and crime began to drop. With Bratton on the job, New York City was turned around.Today, New York's plummeting crime rate and improved quality of life remain a national success story. Bratton is directly responsible, and his strategies are being studied and implemented by police forces across the country and around the world. In Turnaround, Bratton shows how the war on crime can be won once and for all.
In Turnaround, Bratton describes the police initiatives that led to these successes. The city's crime rate dropped over 10 percent a year during Bratton's brief tenure as top cop, until Mayor Giuliani's administration forced him out of the job in 1996. Bratton and his peers used computer mapping to pinpoint crime hot spots and then cleaned up the areas using all the tools of law enforcement. Bratton rose quickly through the ranks of the Boston Police Department, where he pioneered community policing and clea