Talk:William Bratton

message: I'm not going to mess with the main page but here are some of Bratton's predecessors and successors at his earlier postings.
Boston Police Department:
Successor - Paul F. Evans
http://www.amazon.com/Boston-Police-Department-Images-America/dp/0738513024
(not the best support for this but I remember Evans succeeding Bratton as well)
MBTA:
Predecessor - Richard L. Whelan
Successor - Thomas P. Maloney
http://transitpolice.us/Roll_Call.htm
4.240.123.232 21:32, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some Bratton Predecessors and Successors 

message: This article's a mess, I have no idea what is going on and there are even sentences that never end. I can work on the misspellings but someone needs to tackle the fragments of which I am unaware how they should end. Valley2city 05:58, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massive Cleanup needed 

message: "For more information, please visit www.kroll.com[10] or www.altegrity.com[11]" That's a bit much, no? Not to mention that the promotional description of Altegrity takes up more space than the description of his tenure as LA police chief. AnthroMimus (talk) 04:08, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Altegrity Ad 

message: William Bratton shows up on page 143 of Malcolm Gladwell's highly acclaimed The Tipping Point:  How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, published by Little, Brown and Company in 2000.  That book furnishes a vivid and compelling account of what Bratton did to rid the New York subways of crime in the 90s.  I also find a precursor article that Gladwell wrote for The New Yorker Magazine in 1996 at http://www.gladwell.com/1996/1996_06_03_a_tipping.htm that brings up Bratton's work, although I find that article lacking in what I consider to be the most salient details.  For details, you've got to go to the book that came out four years later.
I will try to get back to this eventually to see if I can craft a paragraph that brings these elements into proper focus, unless someone else beats me to the punch; but either way, there are elements here that by all rights should figure into the narrative.
--C-U RPCV 06:14, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bratton cited in ''The Tipping Point'' 

message: Rewrote sentence on alternative explanation to the drop in crime in NY to remove reference to a trivial study that claims the main reason for reduced crime nationwide is legalized abortion. While one might be able to make a case that the drop in teenage male populations was one of many factors, this study is partisan and offensive -- note one of many quotes I could pull, "legalized abortion provides a woman the opportunity to delay childbearing if the current conditions are suboptimal. Even if lifetime fertility remains constant for all women, children are born into better environments, and future criminality is likely to be reduced." It's presentation here as the main alternative to Bratton's own book is meant to portray it as mainstream and important. There are other explanations for the drop in teenage male population besides legalized abortion. And many other factors for the crime drop besides this and the changes in police practices have been proposed, such as an improving economy, and the change in availability of cheap crack cocaine. While there might be some slight value in the removed study, its implicit support for eugenics -- through reducing the population of potential criminals by encouraging abortion among "at risk" populations -- is unsupported by sound science and morally offensive. --PFR 17:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed prominent reference to pro-eugenics-through-abortion study 

message: What's wrong with this picture:
*1970 - 1994 - Boston PD (patrolman to Executive Superintendent)
*1983 - 1986 - Chief, MBTA PD
*(sometime after the T) - Superintendent, MDC Police
*1990 - Chief, NYC Transit Authority PD
*1991 - 1993 - Superintendent in Chief, Boston PD
*1993 - Boston Police Commissioner
Then the Infobox doesn't even mention half of that ...
Please fix.  --plaws (talk) 19:53, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Almost pre-NYC areer timeline 

message: FTA: "In New York, Bratton adopted a zero tolerance policing policy from 1990. This manner of policing has won plaudits and criticism[21], but by 2001, the zero tolerance policy had resulted in a reduction of petty crime and serious crime in New York." This states that the fall in crime was directly precipitated by the zero tolerance policy, but this is impossible to prove. Better wording would be along the lines of "... but the implementation of zero tolerance policy coincided with a reduction of petty and serious crime in New York by 2001" or something similar. Thoughts? 92.14.20.150 (talk) 14:02, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor wording 

message: While the article itself has Mr. Bratton's correct current employment and residence, the infobox stil has him over in LA.
I've held off on making the changes just in case there was some reason for leaving it as is.
thanks
wiki-ny-2007 (talk) 02:04, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  time to update the infobox? 

message: This sentence in "Los Angeles" probably belongs in New York....
In Chapter 8 of Punishing the Poor (published by Duke University Press) sociologist Loic Wacquant summarizes the evidence that Bratton's strategies did not lead to a drop in crime in New York City.126.162.150.27 (talk) 20:48, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of place? 

message: Regarding May's insistence that only a native Briton can run the Met, she is apparently changing her tune: here http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/feb/25/bill-bratton-british-police-fewer-arrests, and here, http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/30/may-proposes-fast-track-police-promotion. o0drogue0o 12:11, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Kingdom 

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message: https://twitter.com/commissbratton 
https://nypost.com/tag/bill-bratton/
I cleaned up New York by going back to basics - it could work for Britain's knife epidemic, too  Bill Bratton 
etc
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bratton
Joseph Martin "Joschka" Fischer
William Joseph "Bill" Bratton
--Über-Blick (talk) 23:18, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bill Bratton