Turnaround
Subtitle: how America's top cop reversed the crime epidemic
By: William Bratton with Peter Knobler.
Contributors: Knobler, Peter.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Bratton, William J.; New York (N.Y.). Police Dept. -- Officials and employees -- Biography.; Police chiefs -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.; Police administration -- New York (State) -- New York.; Police-community relations -- New York (State) -- New York.
Description: 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 borough ... and win. It seemed foolhardy; 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.
Notes: Includes index.