Not surprisingly, former Police Commissioner Bill Bratton believes the criminal-justice "reforms" enacted by the city and state over the past couple of years bear much of the responsibility for the rise in violent crime New York City has experienced during the past 18 months.
In his new book, "The Profession," which is subtitled "A Memoir of Community, Race, and the Arc of Policing in America," co-written with Peter Knobler, he defends the quality-of-life enforcement that he pioneered as Chief of the old Transit Police Department. He then brought the strategy first to the NYPD under Mayor Rudy Giuliani and later as Police Chief in Los Angeles, and then under Mayor de Blasio from 2014 through September 2016. Mr. Bratton 20 years ago criticized Mr. Giuliani for not easing up on enforcement once crime plummeted.
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